AN awards National Pantheon honors to patriot Cristóbal Mendoza

Published at: 18/06/2024 01:25 PM

This Monday, the National Assembly (AN) unanimously approved the Draft Agreement granting the Honors of the National Pantheon to José Cristóbal Hurtado de Mendoza y Montilla.

“The work of Cristóbal Mendoza was much more decisive during the independence movement, we are faced with a man with full multiple responsibilities imposed by the vehemence of the circumstance over those glorious years,” emphasized Deputy Michel Duque, who presented the Draft Agreement.

In this regard, he stressed that the Liberator Simon Bolivar considered him a man of the greatest virtues to organize the nascent Republic of that time.

“Cristobal's weapons were not the rifles but his pen and his gifts in building a Republic through the values of civilization,” Duque emphasized.

Mendoza was the first to preside over the Executive Triumvirate of 1811. It was he, who held the presidential office, gave Simon Bolivar the title of Liberator, and he ratified it in Caracas on October 14, 1813, when he was governor of Mérida.

Mazo News Team