When we study history, we do not for a general culture and to gallantry of our knowledge. The story has a much greater sense of that, and we know it to know where we come from and where we go. This is very important because in countries like Venezuela, parimos future and we reject our mother constantly. Just study the history to remember our origins.
On April 19, 1810 has been so become distorted over a historic event of military and revolutionary ideals. The protagonists of this movement on April 19 are Francisco de Miranda, Simón Bolívar far. To fully understand the essence of the April 19, we must know the events that took place in Europe at that time. To do this we must know that in France the revolution triumphed, based on the ideas of the Enlightenment philosophers like Montesquieu and Voltaire.
This revolution and its ideals are completely destroyed and betrayed to the establishment of the reign of terror that ended with the establishment of Napoleon Bonaparte as Emperor of France, nothing enlightened regime totally despotic, autocratic and therefore undemocratic.
In his conquest of the world, Napoleon invaded Spain taking the power to impose Carlos IV and Joseph Bonaparte (his brother) as the legitimate king of Spain. This was what really brought discontent in the colony. The problem here is that the members (the that had clear) of the Captaincy General of Venezuela is not swearing allegiance to Napoleon Bonaparte and less were considered French citizens but subjects of the English crown, which was to symbolize the power of God on earth. That's why establishing the Patriotic Junta rights defender Fernando VIII, "The expected" (son of the deposed Charles IV).
When the Board gives the name of "patriotic" to his movement, he did not because they were unrelated to the English crown, just the opposite. Cabildo is patriotic because he was English and would not accept a French invader illegally usurped power, because remember, take King was unaware of God and the Games of Alfonso X, "the wise" that served as the Magna Carta of Bourbon Empire.
Movement of April 19 had nothing to do with the values \u200b\u200bof the Enlightenment movement French or English. For that time still ruled the thinking of traditional monarchy that had existed throughout the English colony. This movement was eminently civil and respect for the constitutional institutions of the monarchy beheaded. It might be thought, however, and without fear to speculate that among the illustrious white Creole and civil aristocrats existed the germ of a break with the metropolis, since there is a process immediately constituent in the hands of the defenders themselves Fernando VII.
In this change, the greatest actor of credit is undoubtedly
Germain Roscio Don Juan, one of the principal drafters of the document (our Jefferson Venezuela), which unfortunately, hardly anyone even remember their fair highlights dimension. Yes there were military and José Félix Rivas,
brown representative on the board, but at that time, served as a civilian. In the same way when asked the waiver Vicente Emparan for agreeing to be ruler of Napoleon, does not act as "Captain General" but as "Governor of Caracas" and being in both positions brought a lot of confusion for many in the posterity.
The military establishment is to be set after the king returned to Spain and decided to confront the rebellious colonies. There being no tradition of war in the former Captaincy General, the Marquis del Toro asked to Francisco de Miranda, to take the reins of the race and set the first national army to confront the Bourbon Empire troops. The Generalissimo Francisco de Miranda, who itself was in signing the act of July 1811, was a career soldier in the Napoleonic wars, who was next to the Czarina Catherine "The Great" and came to befriend Washington itself. Encyclopedic training, multilingual and Mason, undoubtedly an honest man, a true Enlightenment and the French and British fresh ideas and a proud Venezuelan history. But the movement, again, the movement of 19A, was never military.
In conclusion, the stories of these soldiers on the Bicentennial is a distortion of history, a complete lack of it. It is a betrayal of the movement itself an imprint civilian and intelligence. We conclude that much of what we sell the current government is nothing but a vulgar political propaganda to extol the military government, with very few exceptions, civilians are enemies of democracy and freedom of religion and thought.
Moseguí 