Josefa Camejo: Rebel force that confronted the Spanish Empire for independence (+birth)

Published at: 18/05/2024 08:20 AM

This May 18 marks the 231st anniversary of the birth of Josefa Venancia de la Encarnación Camejo, better known as Josefa Camejo, a national hero, recognized for her participation in the independence struggle.

This honorable woman was born in the year 1791 in Curaiebo, Pueblo Nuevo, in the state of Falcón. From this town he moved to Caracas to continue his studies, when the Revolution broke out on April 19, 1810.

When he was just 19 years old, Camejo joined the sessions of the Patriotic Society. A year later, in 1811, she moved to live with her mother in Barinas, where her uncle, Monsignor Mariano de Talavera y Garcés, secretary of the Patriotic Junta of Mérida and who had a great influence on her, encouraged her in the offensive against the realists, a task for which she had to meet with a large group of women who wanted to participate in the armed struggle.

Then in 1821, at the head of 300 slaves working in their Paraguaná herd, he began a rebellion against the royalist forces of the Province of Coro, but they were defeated.

Camejo died 41 years after that historic event. As to the place of his death, various theories have been raised.

Commander Chávez vindicated this heroine by transferring her symbolic remains to the National Pantheon in 2002.

Mazo News Team