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Mission Florentino was aBolivarian mission organized by the government ofVenezuelan President,Hugo Chávez, to coordinate the populace to vote "No" in theVenezuelan recall referendum of 2004 to keep him in office. The organizational centers of the Mission were namedComando Maisanta, as the ideological central headquarters (election brigades) for those who wished to keep Chávez as the President of Venezuela for the remainder of his presidential term.
The mission's name was inspired from a poem byAlberto Arvelo Torrealba entitled "Florentino y el Diablo (Florentino and the Devil)" in which a singer, Florentino, is tempted by the Devil to join him. Chávez claimed that reading the poem reminded him of the political situation in Venezuela at the time and encouraged his supporters to follow the example of Florentino fighting the Devil (those who were going to vote in favor of removing him from office). The name of the "Comandos" came from theCaudillo Pedro Pérez Delgado, great-grandfather of Chávez and nicknamed "Maisanta", who fought as aguerrilla fighter againstJuan Vicente Gómez for control of the country during the early years of the 20th century.
In June 2004, Chávez announced that the campaign conducted by the Mission Florentino for the referendum would bear the name of theBattle of Santa Inés[1].
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