The remark was made by Vietnamese Ambassador to Venezuela Vu Trung My at a seminar titled ‘The Life and Career of President Ho Chi Minh’, which was held on May 20 (local time) by the Vietnamese Embassy in Venezuela and the Venezuela’s Presidential Office to mark the 135th birth anniversary of the great Vietnamese leader (May 19, 1890 –2025).
The ambassador reiterated that Ho Chi Minh’s ideology and career have left a profound mark on Viet Nam’s history and have become a great source of inspiration for national liberation movements worldwide, especially in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Ho Chi Minh is not only the leader of Viet Nam but also a great friend and faithful comrade of all peoples who cherish freedom and progress.
Addressing the event, Professor Dr. Omar Edmundo, Chairman of the National Historical Research Centre, hailed Ho Chi Minh’s ideology as a comprehensive and profound system of views on the fundamental issues of the Vietnamese revolution.
It was the fruit from the creative application and development of Marxism-Leninism to Viet Nam’s specific conditions, while inheriting and developing the nation’s fine traditional values and absorbing the quintessence of human culture, he stressed.
He affirmed that Ho Chi Minh’s ideology continues to serve as the guiding compass for the Party, State, and people of Viet Nam to achieve glorious victories in the new era—the era of the nation’s rise.
For her part, Venezuelan Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Tatiana Pugh stated that President Ho Chi Minh was not only a brilliant thinker and great politician but also an outstanding cultural figure.
At the seminar, Deputy Chief of the Venezuelan Presidential Office Emilio Feriozzi affirmed that President Ho Chi Minh is a shining example of patriotism, simplicity, and humility.
He extolled President Ho as a symbol of revolutionary heroism and the struggle for independence and freedom, noting that under President Ho’s leadership, the Vietnamese people achieved many important victories, especially the founding of the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam in 1945, now the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam.
Within the framework of the seminar, participants enjoyed the documentary film ‘Ho Chi Minh – The Portrait of a Man’ and attended the photo exhibition entitled ‘Viet Nam – Ho Chi Minh’.
