Surnames: The story is clear, the deliverers are the same as always

Published at: 14/06/2024 05:30 PM

The Venezuelan oligarchy has always failed in its attempts to govern the country, due to its intention to negotiate the Homeland to foreign interests.

The political process that began in Venezuela after 1830 was characterized by a new order proposed to establish influential elites that revolved around the formation of three elements: caudillism as a political system, the creation of the National State and the establishment of a liberal ideology.

Its creators devised the coup of 1858 and the consequences were disastrous to their class interests: the insurrection and rebellion of the urban poor, as the historian Federico Brito Figueroa recounted in the book: Guayana Essequiba: History of a Dispossession, published in 2015 by the Ministry of the People's Power of Foreign Affairs.

The historian explained that “they proclaimed the dictatorship of José Antonio Páez and the most notable intelligence requested foreign intervention to liquidate the peasant insurrection. In other words, in defense of their class interests, the oligarchs did not hesitate to participate in acts of betrayal of the Fatherland.”

To be more specific, Brito explained that on November 22, 1861, a commission formed by Manuel Felipe de Tovar, Pedro Gual, Pacifico Gual , Nicomedes Zuloaga, Juan Jose Mendoza, Francisco La Madriz, Federico Nunez de Aguilar and Aureliano Otáñez, drafted a document imploring the intervention of a foreign power and offering to “hand over tracts of the homeland in exchange for order and respect for their properties threatened” by the social war.

In order to make this behavior known to the new generations, we bring some excerpts from that document, the content of which alone explains the description of traitors to the Fatherland for those who prepared it and sent it to the Foreign Ministry of a foreign power, through a diplomatic representation established in Caracas :

“... none of the nations of Europe can have more advantages to own Venezuela than Great Britain, and we believe that this possession is more advantageous to them than the one they have in East India.

In Venezuela, among thinking men, there is the opinion that it is in Venezuela's best interest to dispose of the territory of Guiana and negotiate it with Great Britain, paying with it the foreign debt contracted with English subjects.

[...] Venezuelan Guiana is a larger country than France, [...] This vast territory, which borders English Guiana, and which can be said to be deserted, is destined to be of great importance in South America. [...]

This is a duty that European nations have to the American republics that need their guardianship intervention without waiting to be called directly from these South American nations...”

This document, drafted by the Caracas oligarchy and signed by land owners in the province of Aragua, provoked the indignation of the dictator José Antonio Páez, who ordered an immediate investigation to prosecute those who had not hesitated to request foreign intervention in the political life of the country, for treason, in addition to offering in payment for their treason, practically one third of Venezuela's land area.

Pedro José Rojas, who was a journalist, politician and general secretary of José Antonio Páez, made inquiries about this, but the development of the Federal War did not allow deepen investigations.

It seems that the surrender attitude of the Venezuelan oligarchy is part of their culture, their political actions have revolved around favoring the interests of large global corporations, in accordance with the requests of the current empires, and to give a close example, we are seeing how they negotiate the sale of national companies such as CITGO and Monómers regardless of the damage this causes to the Venezuelan people.

AMELYREN BASABE/Mazo News Team