Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro starred in another episode of his unique handling of English on Thursday during the swearing-in of the Promoting Commission for the Constituent Assembly of the Working Class, held at the Central Park Complex in Caracas.
“Not war, yes peace, forever, forever, forever, peace forever, not crazy war”, said the leader before the attendees, in an attempt to reaffirm his message of “world peace.” Immediately after, and aware of the confusion caused by his English, he translated what he had just said himself: “No to crazy war”.
But it didn’t stop there. Maduro continued with his peculiar linguistic improvisation: “Please! peace, peace forever, victory forever, the peace,” then went on to explain: “This is called tarsaniado language. If it were translated into Spanish in a Tarzan style, it would be: no war, no wanting war, no to the war of the crazy, yes peace, yes peace forever.”
The Chavista leader, who just a week ago used his “Bolivarian English” to respond to Trump after the CIA's authorization to operate in Venezuela, took the opportunity to once again proclaim himself as “the workers' president” and “the empowered people.”
"I am the first Worker President in this great history of Latin America and the Caribbean," he affirmed, amidst his call to reestablish the Venezuelan labor movement under the banner of 21st Century Bolivarian Socialism and the Plan of the 7 Transformations.
The speech, broadcasted nationwide, combined Maduro's typical messianic tones with improvised English that seemed more like something out of a Tarzan movie than diplomatic.
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