206 years ago, the Liberator, Simon Bolivar, responded to an attempt to intervene in the United States

On October 7, 1818, the Liberator Simon Bolivar responded firmly through a letter to John B. Irving, an agent of the U.S. government, who intended to interfere in Venezuelan affairs.

“It seems that your attempt is to force me to alternate insults: I will not do it; but if I protest you, I will not allow the government and the rights of Venezuela to be insulted or despised. Defending them against Spain, a large part of our population has disappeared and the rest is eager to deserve equal luck. It is the same for Venezuela to fight against Spain as against the entire world, if everyone offends it,” emphasized the Father of the Fatherland.

It is worth contextualizing that before the Liberator's response to the North American, two American vessels arrived in the country and, through an inspection, found weapons instead of other types of merchandise, concluding that the weapons were intended for realistic troops.

That is why the United States government sends its agent to recover the two ships, Irving sends letters to the Liberator to negotiate what happened, seeing Bolivar's categorical response, the North American threatens him to which Bolívar answers on October 12: “Courage and skill, Mr. Agent, give an advantage to numbers. Unhappy men if these moral virtues did not balance and even surpass the physical ones! The master of the most populated kingdom would soon be lord of all the earth. Fortunately, a handful of free men have often been seen vanquishing powerful empires.”

Today, the Venezuelan people celebrate the anti-imperialist character of the Liberator.

Mazo News Team