The validity of the Angostura Address

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The validity of the Angostura Address

“The Angostura Address paved the way for emancipation, of definitive liberation.” President Nicolás Maduro

t is with great pleasure that the Bank people and the army incarnated in the people of Alba, an instrument for the develop- in arms. ment and the sovereign integration of the Ipeoples of the Great Homeland, presents A third of the territory had been liberated and the Liberator Simón Bolívar’s address to the the rebellious and resolute people yearned Congress of Angostura, 200 years after the for a new Constitution and a government to delivery of this monumental work. crown the independence feat. This was un- derstood by The Liberator and for this pur- To fully grasp the most brilliant thought of the pose he convened the Sec-ond Constituent time, some basic context is required. Congress of which culminated with the proclamation of the Republic of On February 15, 1819, The Liberator entered (the ), enshrining the union of the Government Palace of Angostura along Venezuela, Cundinamarca and Quito. with Rafael Urdaneta, Tomás Montilla and the officers of his Chiefs of Staff to open the At the opening of the historic Congress, Bo- momentous Congress. In attendance were lívar developed a set of ideas that re-main staunch patriots of the emancipatory stru- valid for the Latin American and Caribbean ggles such as Juan Germán Roscio, Fernan- peoples. do Peñalver, Diego Bautista Urbaneja and Colombian Francisco Antonio Zea, José Ma- First, Bolívar stated that the goal of that Con- ría Vergara and José María Salazar, among gress should be not only the creation of the others. Republic but beyond that transcendent mis- sion it was essential to build a new society The soldiers of the First and Second Republic based on the pillars of equality, justice and were joined by the peons and day laborers of freedom. the Llanos under the command of José An- tonio Páez, the slaves freed by the decrees The construction of a new society remains a of Bolívar of Carúpano and Ocumare de la fundamental task taken up since the begin- Costa and the indige-nous people of eastern ning of the Fifth Republic first by Commander Venezuela. The proclaimed unity between the Chávez and today by President Nicolás Ma-

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duro, loyal to the legacy of The Liberator. In the worthy sons and daugh-ters of Venezuela. these years, Bolivarian Venezuela has made We say with Commander Chávez: great strides to bring about “a profoundly popular, just, and moral government ...”. “Now as in the past, but today more than yes- terday, Bolívar sets the course. Here we are, The spirit of the Angostura Address must the real Bolivarian people, and there is the materialize. It is challenging us to con-tinue anti-Bolivarian bourgeoisie, enemy of Bolívar the fight for the complete independence of and the Bolivarian project of equality, of free- our Homeland; seeking the “most perfect dom, of justice.” government system, that brings about the greatest possible happiness, the greatest so- cial security, and the greatest political stabi- The voice of Bolívar in Angostura is still lity”; working tirelessly for justice, social and showing the way of the Homeland: political equality; to deepen our roots, using our creativity, origi-nality and national identi- “To help our nascent Republic overcome this ty; to continue promoting popular education chaos, our moral faculties will not be enough “moral and lights are our first necessities”; to if we do not unite the mass of the people as fight for “national prosperity for the two grea- a whole; the composition of the government test levers of industry, work and knowledge”; as a whole; the legislation as a whole, and the to further strengthen the civic-military unity; national spirit as a whole; Unity, unity, unity, to make progress in the supreme task of should be our motto”. achieving the unity of South Amer-ica. It is the path down which we will continue mo- The mission was titanic yesterday and still is ving forward. today, when a new Holy Alliance has been forged to destroy our Republic, the Bolivarian Constitution and our sacred independence. Colonialism morphed into imperialism seeks to undermine the Bolivarian Republic to take us back two hundred years into the most atro- cious dependence. Unfortu-nately a group of people, unworthy of being called Venezuelan, have joined this ignominious undertaking. Therefore, today more than ever, when the Homeland is threatened, it is necessary to read and reflect on the lights shed by the An- Raul Li Causi gostura Address to strengthen the patriotic, President of the Bank of Alba revolutionary and socialist consciousness of February, 2019

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