High court urged to prohibit use of Cuban slogan in the Venezuelan army
Active army Brigadier General Ángel Omar Vivas Perdomo filed with the
Constitutional Court of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice a joint file to
order Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez to stop using the slogan
"Homeland, Socialism or Death, We Will Win!" in the armed forces.
The action is based on violation of articles 1 and 328 of the
Constitution; articles 6 and 7 of the National Armed Forces Organic Law,
and articles 1 and 41 of the Regulation of Disciplinary Sanctions No. 6.
General Vivas Perdomo was the head of the army Finance Department and is
part of a group of almost one thousand officers waiting for a new
appointment. He was classmate of Defense Minister Gustavo Rangel
Briceño, who goes into retirement this year.
One of the pleadings states that the slogan sponsored by President
Chávez "does not fit in the Venezuelan nationalism because it does not
represent the fervent feeling of the whole nation. It is embraced only
by a group of citizens who show a clear ideological political trend."
In addition, the slogan "is an expression of fight of Fidel Castro's
revolutionary movement in Cuba;" therefore, it is "a foreign slogan that
implies recognition of values and persons that are not related at all to
our nationality."
http://english.eluniversal.com/2008/05/23/en_pol_art_high-court-urged-to_23A1601239.shtml
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