Ana María Campos: Revolutionary Patriot who gave her life for Venezuela (+seeding)

On October 17, 1828, Ana María Campos died at the age of 32. A woman of great libertarian ideals and who joined the liberating cause from a very young age.

Born on April 2, 1796, Ana María Campos, daughter of Domingo Campos and Ana María Cubillán, was born in the Ports of Altagracia, Zulia state. Although the Campos-Cubillán family was one of the wealthiest in the Zulian region, that didn't stop the young Ana María from joining the cause for freedom in Venezuela since she was a child.

The Campos-Cubillán home was a meeting point for Marabino patriots, where meetings were held for the liberation of the Venezuelan people, during one of these meetings Ana María utters the phrase “If Morales doesn't capitulate monda”, which meant “If Morales doesn't give up, he dies”.

When Ana María Campos was betrayed for saying this phrase, she did not deny her authorship, which led Captain Francisco Tomas Morales, governor of the Province of Maracaibo, to order that she be ridden on a donkey tied and walked half-naked through the streets of the city, receiving flogging by the African Valentín Aguirre.

Ana María, in a show of courage and firmness, shouted for every scourge the phrase "If not capitula monda “...” If she doesn't capitulate monda ", with her finger always raised to the sky. He was never able to recover from the physical abuse he received, but he managed to stay alive and witness how his dreams of freedom came true with the victory of the patriots in the Naval Battle of Lake Maracaibo, on July 24, 1823; where the independence of the Province of Maracaibo was sealed, forcing Morales to capitulate and surrender to all the demands of the patriots.

When he died he left five children, María Antonia, José María, Miguel, Rafael, Gabriel and Joaquina de Campos y Pineda. Until his last days, he was unable to recover from the physical injuries that Morales caused him.

Mazo News Team