José Leonardo Chirinos: Indomitable strength that runs through the veins of the patriotic people (+seeding)

Published at: 10/12/2024 08:54 AM

On December 10, 1796, after being captured, José Leonardo Chirinos, who had led the rebellion of Afro-descendants in the territories of what is now the state of Falcón, was executed by royalist forces.

Chirinos was born on April 25, 1754 in the city of Caracas, the product of the union of a free indigenous woman and a black slave, he married a slave named María de los Dolores with whom he had three children: María Viviana, Rafael María and José Hilario.

As a free man, he dedicated himself to trade, for which he embarked on several occasions with a wealthy merchant from Coro, with whom he made several trips to various Caribbean islands, including Haiti, where he learned about the experience of the Revolution promoted by people of African descent on this island, which was reaping triumphs, so when he returned to Venezuela he decided to join a group of conjuries who met in the trapiche of the Macanillas farm, in Curimagua, among whom was José Caridad González, a very black Congolese informed of the ideas of the French Revolution.

All this helped him to lead an armed movement on May 10, 1795, under the idea of the abolition of slaves and the abolition of numerous taxes, as well as the establishment of a regime inspired by the Haitian one.

After the failure of this insurrection, he was persecuted and imprisoned for the betrayal of a friend in August of the same year. The Royal Court of Caracas sentenced him to hang and once the sentence was executed his body was dismembered.

228 years after this rebel passed into immortality, the people continue to be inspired by their strength, courage and courage to defend and fight for their right to freedom and equality, only possible in Socialism.

Mazo News Team