Moisés Moleiro (historian)

Moisés Rafael Moleiro Camero (born September 2, 1937 in Caracas ; † February 16, 2002 ibid) was a Venezuelan historian , philosopher and politician .

Life

The son of the composer Moisés Moleiro studied law at the Universidad Central de Venezuela from 1957 . At the same time he was active as a member of the banned Acción Democrática in the opposition to Marcos Pérez Jiménez . He was captured and tortured in the Seguridad Nacional prisons . He went into exile, from which he returned after the fall of Jiménez in 1958.

In 1960 he came to the new president Rómulo Betancourt in opposition. With other opposition members, he was expelled from the Acción Democrática. The Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR) was founded under Secretary General Domingo Alberto Rangel . Moleiro became one of the organization's political secretaries.

The MIR recruited guerrilla brigades against the Betancourt government, and Moleiro first became one of the commanders of the Frente Ezequiel Zamora in the mountains of Miranda , later of the Frente Antonio José de Sucre . After the "Invasion of Machurucuto", the landing of a dozen guerrillas trained in Cuba, which ended in disaster and almost cost Moleiro his life, he went into exile again.

After the MIR was legalized under Rafael Caldera , he participated in the 1974 elections, from which Carlos Andrés Pérez emerged as president. Moleiro was elected as a deputy to the National Congress. After differences with Américo Martín , Moleiro left the MIR and became a member of the Movimiento al Socialismo , from which he soon separated due to differences in content. Eventually Moleiro became a professor of philosophy and history at the Universidad Central de Venezuela.

Fonts

• Las máscaras de la democracia
• El partido del pueblo
• Proceso a la izquierda
• El socialismo ha muerto ¡viva el socialismo!
• La izquierda superada
• El ocaso de una esperanza