José Leonardo Chirinos: Indomitable strength that runs in the veins of patriots (+Christmas)
Published at: 25/04/2024 12:10 PM
On April 25, 1754, José Leonardo Chirinos was born in the town of Curimagua, Falcón
State, a man
who led the largest rebellion of slaves and humble people that broke out in the 18th century on the American continent, a movement that
sparked the independence
movement of the 19th century.
The son of a free indigenous woman and a black slave, Chirinos
was forced to work from an early age, so he joined the
crew of an Antillean merchant, allowing him to travel around the Caribbean and
learn about the experience of the libertarian feat that promoted blackness in Haiti.
All this knowledge and rebellion that always
characterized him, led him to join a group of conspirators who
met at the Hacienda El Trapiche, located in his
native Curimagua, where he met José Caridad González,
a black Congolese who knew the ideas promoted by the French Revolution.
After long days of preparatory meetings and given his innate leadership
capacity, José Leonardo became the leader
of the movement that, on May 10, 1795, took up arms against the Spanish
Empire, succeeding between battle and battle, to advance to the city of
Coro, where they were combated by the realist army that, superior in men and
weapons, managed to defeat the rebels.
The black Chirinos manages to escape and enters
the mountains where he is captured as a result of betrayal by one of the
insurgents, so he is sentenced to death, a sentence that was served on December 10, 1796, when he was taken to
the gallows and after being
hanged, his body was dismembered, placing his limbs in various areas of Caracas.
Today, 270 years after the birth of this rebel, the people
are raising the emancipatory and anti-imperialist ideas of what is an
indomitable force that runs in the veins of patriots who continue to fight to achieve definitive victory.
Mazo News Team