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The Venezuelan War of Independence (Spanish: Guerra de Independencia de Venezuela, 1810–1823) was one of the Spanish American wars of independence of the early nineteenth century, when independence movements in South America fought a civil war for secession and against unity of the Spanish Empire, emboldened by Spain's troubles in the Napoleonic Wars.
The Revolution of April 19, 1810, was an insurrection in Caracas on April 19, 1810, that deposed Vicente Emparan, captain general of Venezuela, and founded the Supreme Junta of Caracas, Venezuela's first form of self-government. It is conventionally noted as the beginning of the country's struggle for independence.
The Venezuelan independence was the juridical-political process that put an end to the ties between the Captaincy General of Venezuela and the Spanish Empire.It also implied the replacement of the absolute monarchy by the republic as the form of government in Venezuela.
Subsequent battles included a key naval victory for the independence forces on 24 July 1823 at the Battle of Lake Maracaibo [10] and in November 1823 José Antonio Páez occupied Puerto Cabello, the last Royalist stronghold in Venezuela. The victory was a hard-won one for the independence forces.
Before Nicólas Maduro, Venezuela was led by Hugo Chávez, ... His government spent more in five years than it had in its prior 143 years of independence. Pérez "made the central bank a cash cow ...
1876 study by Martín Tovar y Tovar depicting the signing of the declaration.. The Venezuelan Declaration of Independence (Spanish: Acta de la Declaración de Independencia de Venezuela) is a document drafted and adopted by Venezuelan on July 5, 1811, through which Venezuelans made the decision to separate from the Spanish Crown in order to establish a new nation based on the premises of ...
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Venezuela's supreme court on Saturday said that it had not received evidence from the opposition coalition in the disputed July 28 presidential elections and warned that its decision in ...