Despite their genuine admiration for Bolivar, constituents understood that Bolivars argumentation in favor of hereditary principles of political power was very weak (not to say confusing), and that an institution imitating the British House of Lords would be nothing but a setback to old aristocratic times. Caracas: Alfa. Lynch, J. Precisely because no form of government is so weak as the democratic, its framework must be firmer, and its institutions must be studied to determine their degree of stabilityunless this is done, we will have to reckon with an ungovernable, tumultuous, and anarchic society, not with a social order where happiness, peace, and justice prevail. However, a very strong point of contention in the Cadiz Cortes, was the demographic balance in the representation of deputies. It is extremely hard to follow Bolivars logic here. But, in the Angostura Address, he clearly mistrusts democracy, as it seems to cripple the strength of a nation: But what democratic government was ever able to unite power, prosperity and permanency at the same time? Simon Bolivar's message to the Congress of Agostura is explaining that the people of Venezuela should be free and not be ruled over by someon thousands of miles of way. Discussion Questions; Further Readings; Honduras: A Country and a Coup Bolivar was given some military assignments in defending the Venezuelan Republic against loyalists of the Spanish monarchy. Liberty has been its cradle, it has grown up in liberty, and it is maintained by pure liberty. Madrid: Espasa Calpe. They also seemed to understand that a moral power could very easily be turned into a censoring body that hastily suppresses individual freedoms. However, given that the rest of Venezuela was still controlled by Spanish authorities, only a few provinces could send delegates. The executive is commander in chief of the army and navy; he makes peace and declares war; but Parliament annually determines what sums are to be paid to these military forces. Bolivar was a great man of action and an important thinker, but he was still flawed in many regards. Washington. His choice of admiration for an ancient Greek city, reveals his militaristic tendency in the Angostura Address: The Republic of Sparta produced more real effects than Solons ingenious creation, even though it seemed a chimerical invention at first. . () Legislators! Bolivar, S. 1819. As it was the educational custom of his times, Bolivar was deeply embedded in the Classics, emulating the spirited rhetoric of Cicero and other great orators of Greece and Rome. Contemporary anti-colonialists place much emphasis on the acknowledgement of cultural diversity, and Bolivar certainly took it into account when deciding what the best political path for a nation is. No matter what citizen occupies this office, he will be aided by the Constitution, and therein being authorized to do good, he can do no harm, because his ministers will cooperate with him only insofar as he abides by the law. The Angostura Address 200 Years Later: A Critical Reading. For, his intellectual and political legacy is a mixed bag. The Congress would lay down the political foundation for the Third Republic. The authors have no competing interests to declare. Simon Bolivar was one of the liberators in the time of the revolution in the northern part of South America. The Congress of Angostura A Great Address and Campaigning in the Plains (1819) Congress did not meet until February 15, 1819, on account of the late arrival of some representatives. Iberoamericana Nordic Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 47(1), 7482. He had some clear political motivations in doing this, (i.e., as an argument to reject federalism and favor stronger governments leaning towards authoritarianism). It is an office for which candidates ought to be prepared, as a senator needs much wisdom and the right faculties to acquire knowledge (Bolivar 1819). Thus, the Angostura Address is plentiful with passages such as these: Sir! Bolivar himself made such a proclaim when arguing: Amidst that sea of woes and afflictions, I was nothing more than the miserable sport of the revolutionary hurricane, driven to and fro like the wild bird of the ocean (Bolivar 1819). But, he believed that federalism was not suited for the political culture of Spanish America, Indeed, this is the main thesis of his Cartagena Manifesto, in which he places most of the blame for the collapse of Venezuelas First Republic, on federalism. Bolivar was very eloquent in denouncing the vices of Spanish imperialism in his vociferous anti-colonial stand. He is directly subject to the legislative body, the senate, and the people: he is the one man who resists the combined pressure of the opinions, interests, and passions of the social state and who, as Carnot states, does little more than struggle constantly with the urge to dominate and the desire to escape domination. However, he implores his audience of 26 representatives to take into account social realities of the former Viceroyalty when writing a new constitution. There was no exact distribution of power there. In the speech, Bolvar lays the foundations for the establishment of democratically governed Gran Colombia that is free from the burden of slavery and racial inequality. At the opening session, held at the Orinoco River port of Angostura (today Ciudad Bolvar), on 15 February 1819, Bolvar delivered a major address in which he warned against imitation of Anglo-American institutions and called for a new constitution featuring a hereditary Senate and a "moral power" with special responsibility for education and In 1829, in the mist of continuous crises of legitimacy, some of Bolivars loyalists in Bogota proposed to establish a monarchy, with Bolivar as king, although his title would be Liberator; he would then have a European prince as successor (Lynch 2010: 263). "An assembly of tried and illustrious men, the Congress of Angostura, responded to the important requirements of the revolution, and when it gave birth to . DOI: http://doi.org/10.16993/iberoamericana.427, Andrade, G., & Lugo-Ocando, J. The ministers, being responsible for any transgressions committed, will actually govern, since they must account for their actions. New York: McMillan. That same year, Bolivar would head towards the Venezuelan plains, assemble an army of llaneros who now supported the Republican Cause- and European mercenaries. Mexico: The Taming of a Revolution. Simn Bolvar, "An Address of Bolvar at the Congress of Angostura (February 15, 1819)" Background As a young man, Simn Bolvar (1783-1830), who would become known as "El Libertador" ("The Liberator") in Latin America, spent a few years in Europe. The case could be made, however, that, in the context of revolutionary struggle, perhaps Bolivar was not aspiring to create an old-fashioned nobility, but rather, a neutral organ intermediate between executive and popular instances. Venezuela: The Perils of Prosperity, Document #23: Address to the United Nations, Hugo Chvez (2006), Document #22: Pact of Punto Fijo, Accin Democrtica, COPEI and Unin Republicana Democrtica (1958), Chapter 9. Bolivar spoke, expressing his ideas regarding freedom. This text is part of the Internet Modern History Sourcebook. The ruling bureaucracy of Oriental despotism: A phenomenon that paralyzed Marx. The Review of Politics, 15(3): 350359. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226016191.001.0001. and men of philosophical thought (Roscio, Viscardo, etc. What republic has exceeded in duration those of Sparta and Venice? Despite Bolivars gratitude for Petions support, Bolivar was extremely concerned by the way the Haitian revolutionaries exterminated whites. To a certain extent, this implied moving away from its African roots, and some authors made it explicit that, in order to be more civilized, Spain should be less African (Shubert 1999: 2). In the midst of the battles for independence, Bolvar summoned a congress in the city of Angostura to reassert New Granadas autonomy and to install a political system that he believed would be capable of sustaining a new republic. But, such celebrations should be devoid of nationalist distortions, and they should be cleansed of the typical hero-worship that has taken place in Latin America for the last 150 years, and has accelerated in Venezuela during the last 20 years. He attempts to excuse himself thus: Only an imperative necessity, united to a strongly expressed desire on the part of the people, could have induced me to assume the dreadful and dangerous office of dictator, supreme chief of the republic (Bolivar 1819). A big point of contention between Enlightenment thinkers and their Counter-Enlightenment foes, was about universalism. Nothing in our fundamental laws would have to be altered were we to adopt a legislative power similar to that held by the British Parliament. There can be multiple answers to this question: These sources both signify a change in attitude with the people of each nation. In an oft-quoted passage of the Angostura Address, he argues: The continuation of authority in the same individual has frequently proved the ruin of democratic governments. Carrera Damas, G. 2003. Who can resist the lure of a beneficent government which employs an able, active and powerful hand to direct all its efforts at all times towards social perfection, which ought to be the end of all human institutions? (Bolivar 1819). If he exists, I certainly have no knowledge of him (Maistre 1965: 80). comments powered by Paredes Muante, J. Yet, at the same time, Bolivar seems to reproduce some old colonialist tropes, according to which Anglo-Saxon peoples are more virtuous. He is the head of government, but his ministers and subordinates rely more upon law than upon his authority, as they are personally responsible; and not even decrees of royal authority can exempt them from this responsibility. Nevertheless, his main concern was not so much with absolutism itself, but rather, with the exclusion of criollos in the administration of the Spanish Empire. He appeals to the idea of a modern state of equality by claiming that "slavery is the daughter of darkness: an ignorant people is a blind instrument of its own destruction" (Boli var). CiteSeerX Address to the Congress at Angostura CiteSeerX - Document Details (Isaac Councill, Lee Giles, Pradeep Teregowda): The idea never entered into my head to consider as identical the characteristics of two peoples as different as the Anglo-American and the Spanish-American. That Constitution, labeled the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, written under the auspices of Hugo Chavez and the self-proclaimed Bolivarian Revolution, went to great lengths in attempting to imitate Bolivarian thinking in every aspect of political organization. hold on the North American continent five. State Fullerton. Although some historians still debate this (Damas 1983; Draper 1968) it does not seem to be the case. Iberoamericana Nordic Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Bolivar was deeply influenced by the Enlightenment thinkers. ended four years prior. University of Chicago Press. Mindlessly appropriating the constitutions of other nations, he argued, would lead to Gran Colombias demise. The congress of the Republic of Venezuela is installed. Although there were many reasons for Bolivars disputes with Francisco de Paula Santander (17921840) and other conspirators in Bogota, it was by far the ambition of becoming President for Life that turned out to be the most crucial amongst his opponents. This thesis was put forth by Argentine historian Ricardo Levene (1951), in an influential treatise, Las Indias no eran colonias. An address of Bolivar at the Congress of Angostura (February 15, 1819) Reprint ordered by the government of the United States of Venezuela, to commemorate the centennial of the opening of the Congress by Bolvar, Simn, 1783-1830 Tocqueville, A. Carlos Marx y Simn Bolvar: Apunte sobre el liderazgo autoritario en un movimiento de liberacin nacional. Desarrollo Econmico, 8(30/31): 293311. Thanks to these achievements he would then be invited by the Peruvian authorities to organize the military campaign against the remaining Spanish and loyalist forces in Peru and Upper Peru (modern-day Bolivia), thus completing the final defeat of the Spanish Empire in South America. You may begin your work. After all, despite his authoritarian inclinations, Bolivar was a man of the Enlightenment, and it is safe to say that he would have been happy with open, frank and critical discussion of ideas, not mindless nationalistic worship. Retreived from: https://rsf.org/en/ranking. Document #2: "Address at the Congress of Angostura," Simn Bolvar (1819) Travels in Colonial Latin America; Discussion Questions; Further Reading; Chapter 3. In this regard, Bolivar very much anticipates Tocquevilles analysis in Democracy in America. In most cases, these celebrations served the political purpose of legitimating the parties in power that organized the festivities and appropriating nationalists sentiments that could help boost popular support. We all owe it our obedience and loyalty. The Lower Classes . From there he would go to occupy modern-day Ecuador and unite the current territories of Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela into a single political entity; it was known as the Gran Colombia, with Bogota as its capital. But, as for Man, I declare that I have never met him in my life. Almost immediately, Bolivar had to confront a revolt lead by Juan Domingo de Monteverde y Rivas (17731832) and Jos Toms Boves (17821814), who lured black slaves, mulatos and indigenous people to swore allegiance to the legitimate Spanish King who by then had been re-stated to the Crown. Throughout many of his private writings, Bolivar expressed enormous concerns about pardocracia, the takeover by pardos. Independence would, nevertheless, prove to be no easy task. And it is for this very reason that Bolivar believes that federalism works in North America, but it would never work in South America. Needless to say, Bolivar hoped to become precisely a perpetual figurehead in the politics of the region and went to describe the role as follows: The President of the Republic comes to be in our Constitution, as the Sun that, firm in the center, gives life to the Universe. 1. Americans by birth and Europeans by law, we find ourselves engaged in a dual conflict: we are disputing with the natives for titles of ownership, and at the same time we are struggling to maintain ourselves in the country that gave us birth against the opposition of the invaders. Bolivar never really says. Yet, Bolivars point is that Spanish imperialism is even worse than Oriental despotism, inasmuch as the control exercised by the Spanish Crown is even tighter than in Eastern societies. Geographies of Philological Knowledge: Postcoloniality and the Trasatlantic National Epic. But, this second Venezuelan Republic would also prove to be short-lived. During Simon Bolivar's address at the Congress of Angostura, in 1819, he argued for the freedom of the people of Latin America. How, exactly, does the potential for abuse in a monarchy justify the expansion of executive power in a republic? Bolivars political philosophy, as laid out in the Angostura Address and other political writings, also took on these authoritarian leanings. Retrieved from: http://www.archivodellibertador.gob.ve/escritos/buscador/spip.php?article9987. In a sense, Bolivars approach is anti-colonial (let us remember that many aspects of colonialism itself were modeled on the universalism of the Enlightenment), inasmuch as he advises colonized peoples not to necessarily copy Eurocentric models. Neoliberal Hegemony and the Pink Tide in Latin America. However, later on, in the Constitution that he wrote for Upper Peru (named Bolivia in his honor) in 1826 and that he attempted to impose on Colombia afterwards, he stipulated the figure of President for Life. It is certainly the case that, during Habsburg times (the dynasty before the arrival of the Bourbons), the Indies were not colonies in the modern sense. Scanned by J. S. Arkenberg, Dept. New York: Springer. Library of America. Disqus. Death and Money in the Afternoon: A History of the Spanish Bullfight. London: Longman Publishing Group. Although never formally educated in universities, Bolivar was a self-taught man and had at least two illustrious tutors who were the arguably the leading intellectuals of the region at the time; Simon Rodriguez and Andres Bello. from the original Spanish by Francisco Javier Ynes) by Bolvar, Simn, 1783-1830; Ynes, Francisco Javier, 1861-1924; Venezuela . Retrieved from: https://www.ensayistas.org/antologia/XIXA/bolivar/bolivia.htm. Criollos would know be second-class citizens. The Spanish Crown would no longer trust local administrators. Castro-Klarn, S. 2003. Summary of H.R.541 - 118th Congress (2023-2024): BALE Act of 2023 Once again, Bolivar had to flee. Again, Bolivar was certainly a big critic of Spanish imperialism, but he did not seem to mind other empires. But, his concern was, if not legitimate, then at least understandable. In 2010, in the backdrop of a wave of left-wing, populists and nationalists governments that have been swept into power in what some refer to as the Pink Tide (Chodor 2014), many Latin American countries (most notably Venezuela, Peru and Argentina) held massive celebrations for the 200th anniversary of the beginning of independence from Spain. Angostura bark, a spice made from the bark of the tree Angostura trifoliata. http://www.redalyc.org/pdf/267/26702702.pdf. Consuls, senate and people all served also as legislators, magistrates and judges. Unfortunately, again, Bolivars reasoning is very confusing; as every critic of the House of Lords or any other hereditary office reminds us, such an institution is precisely the foundation for a nobility. Lpez, J and Lopez, J. While the courts and judges are dependent on the executive power, the laws originate in and are made by Parliament. 2003. Yet, it is very revealing that, in this and other passages, he has a predilection for Rousseau. Shubert, A. As our role has always been strictly passive and political existence nil, we find that our quest for liberty is now even more difficult of accomplishment; for we, having been placed in a state lower than slavery, had been robbed not only of our freedom but also of the right to exercise an active domestic tyranny . DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022216X03006849. Bolivars stand on the abolition of monarchy, however, is more problematic. Unlike other far more questionable Venezuelan caudillos of the latter 19th Century (such as Ezequiel Zamora), who freed their slaves only after having been financially compensated, Bolivar genuinely freed his own slaves without any compensation. A strongly rooted force can only correct this weakness. DOI: http://doi.org/10.16993/iberoamericana.427, Andrade G and Lugo-Ocando J, The Angostura Address 200 Years Later: A Critical Reading (2018) 47 Iberoamericana Nordic Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 74 DOI: http://doi.org/10.16993/iberoamericana.427, Andrade, Gabriel, and Jairo Lugo-Ocando. But, admittedly, it had turned out to be very corrupt. The Enlightenment did not reach Spain with the same force as it did in France or Great Britain. Bolvar personally witnessed the rise of. ; I am even aware, thanks to Montesquieu, that one can be a Persian. 2018 Freedom of Speech Index. He failed miserably, the Republic collapsed, and after guaranteeing his own freedom by turning against Francisco de Miranda he managed to flee into exile (Paredes 2015). DOI: http://doi.org/10.16993/iberoamericana.427. Our piece is an opportunity to challenge future attempts by the Venezuelan government with its self-proclaimed Bolivarian Revolution- to expand the uncritical hero-worship of Simon Bolivars memory as an instrument of self-national aggrandizement.1. At least theoretically, this would ensure that criollos would no longer be second class citizens. Strategies for Economic Development, Moments and Events in Latin American Economic Development, Document #35: Testimony before Congress on the Goals of NAFTA and Preliminary Evaluation, C. Fred Bergsten (1997), Document #36: NAFTA Equals Death, Say Peasant Farmers, Diego Cevalos (2002), Chapter 13. 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In order to achieve this political goal, Bolivar proposes conventional republican institutions: Venezuelas government has always been republican, it is republican, and it should always remain so. This new nation . Similar attempts to debunk myth from reality have not been able to play out in the ways that these efforts were originally intended such as the 2015s 200-year commemoration of Bolivars Jamaica Letter. Formerly, criollos had major participation in the administration of the Empire. Despite the confusing nature of some of these arguments, we must not lose sight of the fact that Bolivar was, above all, a man of revolutionary action, and he responded to particular historical circumstances that may have required some necessary measure in the mist of the chaos originated in the civil war that had been going on for almost ten years. Furthermore, by 1814, Napoleons troops retreated from Spain, and Ferdinand VII returned to power. An Address of Bolvar at the Congress of Angostura (February 15, 1819). Levene, R. 1951. Under the flags of freedom: slave soldiers and the wars of independence in Spanish South America. Not surprisingly, this quote (and Rousseaus political philosophy as a whole) has historically risen some eyebrows, as it seems to sympathize with authoritarian regimes, ironically all in the name of liberty itself. State Fullerton. He would lead them cross the Andes chain of mountains in modern-day Colombia towards a surprise attack on the capital, Bogota. In his view, federalism may work in some countries, but not in all. Yet, there were still notable Spanish Enlightenment figures (Jovellanos, Mayans, Olavide, amongst others). Framing Pan-Americanism: Simn Bolvars Findings. CR: The New Centennial Review. But, it still reflects Bolivars anti-colonial convictions, inasmuch as unlike most figures of the Spanish Enlightenment, he was not embarrassed of having African roots. But, regardless of the effectiveness of this form of government with respect to North America, I must say that it has never for a moment entered my mind to compare the position and character of two states as dissimilar as the English-American and the Spanish-American. ), EZLN Command (1993), Chapter 4. How is everything conspiring against the executive power in a republic? This time he understood that he could not make a frontal assault on Caracas, so he decided to begin a campaign of guerrilla warfare in the Eastern and Southern region of Guayana, in Venezuela, via the Orinoco River. Throughout his post-colonial critique of Orientalists, Edward Said (2006) has documented how 19th Century Western scholars portrayed the East as some sort of mysterious place ruled by despots, mainly as a way to contrast the virtues of Western Enlightenment. Slavery is the daughter of darkness: an ignorant people is a blind instrument of its own destruction. Iberoamericana Nordic Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 47 (1): 7482. After he assumed full dictatorial powers in 1828, Bolivar severely limited various basic liberties, appealing to reasons of public morality. He genuinely emancipated slaves, yet was extremely afraid of a takeover by pardos and all the savage hordes from Africa and America who roam like wild deer in the wilderness of Colombia (Bolivar 1821). of History, Cal. He begins the address by presenting the concept that "We are not Europeans; we are not Indians; we are but a mixed species of aborigines and Spaniards" (Boli var). Congress of Angostura, an 1819-1821 legislative body of Gran Colombia. By this I mean that the result will be the death of the government, whose heirs are anarchy, usurpation, and tyranny . 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