Authorities of the Revolutionary Government and councilors of the Libertador municipality, commemorate, with a solemn session, the 215 anniversary of April 19, 1810, the day that Venezuela took its first step towards independence, from the chapel of Santa Rosa de Lima.
In the same, the agreement was read and approval through which the award of the order of the key of the ark that protects the Act of April 19, 1810, to the Deputy to the National Assembly, Nicolás Maduro Guerra was granted, who was also the speaker of order.
From early hours the solemn acts with the raising of the national flag by the cadets of the Military Academy of Venezuela and the Ministerial Train against the National Pantheon in Caracas.
Earlier, the mayor of Caracas, Carmen Meléndez together with outstanding personalities led the floral offering before the equestrian statue of El Libertador Simón Bolívar, in the heart of the Venezuelan capital, as part of the commemorative acts.
On April 19, 1810, Bolivarian dream began
During the solemn session of the Legislative Council of Caracas, the speaker of order, Nicolás Maduro Guerra said that in Caracas, that April 19, 1810, the Bolivarian dream began in the Plaza Bolívar and joining the path of freedom and independence.
“The April 19 movement was not a spontaneous outburst, but the culmination of a process fermented for decades of ideas and conflicts that lit the wick of the revolution in Caracas,” said Maduro Guerra.
During his speech, Maduro Guerra recalled that after the Captain General of Venezuela, Vicente Emparan, was taken to Cabildo and asked Venezuelans who were outside in the Plaza Mayor if they wanted him to continue the sending and after receiving a resounding not as a response, he said he did not want to continue in command, he presented his resignation and went to Spain.
“That action had an immense historical reach for the first time in our history patriots and military loyal to the American cause, they did not know the authority of the Spanish empire and sovereignly assumed power,” said Maduro Guerra.
He added that on April 19, 1810 Venezuela took the first firm step towards independence. “The installation of the Supreme Board of Caracas triggered an irreversible political process and finally on July 5, 1811 gave way to the birth of the First Republic of Venezuela,” he said.
Maduro Guerra said that the foundations of the Spanish domain, which then allowed a group of Creoles and Mantuans led by great independentists such as Francisco de Miranda, Andrés Bello and Simón Bolívar, proclaimed the independence of Venezuela. This historical act was a crucial step in the struggle for the emancipation of the country of the Spanish crown.
Then, he said that since then, on April 19 it has become an emblematic date that “evidences the value and determination of those who fought for freedom and independence.”
In general, he said that on April 19, 1810, the Venezuelan people planted before the Spanish Empire to begin writing their own history, which, from colonization, was intervened and governed by the Spanish yoke that demanded subordination, and loyalty to the king of Spain.
“Venezuela became the first Spanish colony of South America to declare and achieve its independence, serving as an example and inspiration for other nations of the continent”- he emphasized while referring to the participation of Madariaga in the Caracas revolution, where the resignation of the captain general is required and the subsequent organization of the Board that meant the beginning of the struggle for the independence of our country.
People keep the flame of independence alive
The mayor of Caracas, Carmen Melédez, highlighted on Saturday the firm purpose of continuing in the construction of a homeland where peace and sovereignty are guaranteed, during her speech in the solemn session of the Municipal Council of Libertador to commemorate the 215th anniversary of the proclamation of the independence of Venezuela, in the Santa Rosa de Lima chapel.
«Today, 215 years after that April 19, we continue to build homeland with the conciliation of all and all. Those who are here fighting in our homeland are the ones who defend the people, sovereignty and work to guarantee peace and remain free, sovereign and independent, ”he explained.
Carmen Meléndez said that the people keep the flame of independence alive, since together with President Nicolás Maduro Moros and popular power, it remains the protagonist of the 7 transformations, with an active participation and a revolutionary process that governs from the hand of the communities.
«Today we carry a new governance, a new state; That April 19 the rebel youth He showed that he didn’t want to command, ‘; And today ‘commune or nothing’ is heard, where all united, both the government and popular power, exercise direct, participatory and leading democracy »- he said.
