Antonio José de Sucre: Abel de América who took on the historic epic of liberating Peoples (+seeding)

On June 4, 1830, Antonio José de Sucre, the Grand Marshal of Ayacucho, was shot in the chest while passing through the Sierra de Berrucos (Colombia).

Sucre was returning to Ecuador with the purpose of maintaining the union of Gran Colombia, which was already in the process of dissolution, and was the victim of an ambush by the people of New Granada, who took his life when he was just 35 years old.

Born February 3, 1795 in the city of Cumaná, he was a soldier, politician and hero of the independence wars that, under the command of the Liberator Simon Bolivar, swept the Spanish Empire from South American lands.

From a very young age, he stood out for his courage, courage and love for human causes, which led him to join the ranks of a rebellious youth that rose up under the ideal of freedom, solidarity and equality that had guided the French Revolution.

After the fall of the First Republic, he joined the ranks of the Liberation Army commanded by General Santiago Mariño and, at only 18 years of age, he participated in operations for the liberation of that part of Venezuela, where as the general's aide, in 1814, he witnessed the conjunction of forces from the East with those of the West in the valleys of Aragua.

With the end of the Second Republic, he moved on a journey through the islands of the Antilles, Cartagena, to culminate in Haiti, carrying out his return, shipwrecked in the Gulf of Paria. In 1816, Mariño appointed him chief of staff and promoted him to colonel. This same leader appointed him in 1817, when he had only 22, as commander of the province of Cumaná.

His prodigious ability and dedication to study made him worthy of carrying out tasks such as the drafting of the Treaty of Armistice and Regularization of the War, considered by Bolívar to be “the most beautiful monument of piety applied to war”.

After holding various positions within the Revolutionary Government headed by the Liberator, and having demonstrated his loyalty and capacity for the art of war, at only 26 years old, Bolívar decided to hand him over the responsibility of the Army of the South, where the genius of Sucre was deployed, achieving impressive triumphs such as those obtained in the Battle of Junín and Ayacucho, which sealed the Independence of our America.

195 years after their assassination of this Giant of Freedom, the Venezuelan people rise up with the shining example of Antonio José de Sucre, who with his brilliance illuminates the struggles of the children of this sacred land to which the Abel of America gave his life.

Mazo News Team