Margarita López Maya
Central University of Venezuela
Margarita López Maya is a professor of history at the Central University of Venezuela and director of the Venezuelan Magazine of Economics and Social Sciences. The following is excerpted from a August 27, 2004, keynote address marking the ratification of President Hugo Chávez Frías following the presidential recall election.We have been summoned here to the emblematic headquarters of the representatives of sovereignty of the people with the aim of expressing the joy that we, the men and women of Venezuela, must all certainly feel for the happy ending of the presidential recall, the result of which has been the ratification…
