211 years ago Simon Bolivar received the title of Liberator of Venezuela

Published at: 14/10/2024 08:01 AM

In recognition of his struggle for the emancipation of the Peoples, on October 14, 1813, the governor of Caracas, Cristóbal Mendoza, on behalf of the Venezuelans, appointed Simon Bolivar as Captain General of the Venezuelan Armies and conferred on him the title of The Liberator.

At that time, the Father of the Fatherland asked the Congress of New Granada to hand him an army with which he planned to fight for independence in Venezuela, which was under the Spanish siege, and as a condition they urged him to first liberate some regions of present-day Colombia.

Bolívar enters Venezuela through the Andes mountain range, suffering the attacks specific to the geographical conditions of the region. In its wake, it is liberating the peoples of the West, trying to digest the barbarism committed by the realists in these populations after the loss of the First Republic.

When he arrived in Trujillo, he wrote the Decree of War to the Death and continued to advance, decisively, to Caracas, where he arrived on August 6, 1813. A few days later, on October 14, he received the title and wrote “Liberator of Venezuela: a more glorious and satisfying title for me than the scepter of all the empires of the Earth”.

Mazo News Team