Historian Henry Navas: They have tried to manipulate the true history of the Venezuelan people

Published at: 06/07/2025 10:30 PM

This Sunday, July 6, historian Henry Navas, assured that they have tried to “hide and manipulate the historical evolution of Venezuelans, an attempt has been made to strip the People of that rebellious character, that courage they had as the creator of the Great Homeland, because we were the creators of the Great Homeland”.

This was stated when analyzing the importance of the process generated on April 19, 1810 and, a year later, the signing of the Act of Independence on July 5, 1811, which are important dates of the nation, during an interview in the Special Program broadcast by Venezolana de Televisión (VTV).

The professor said that in this way, Venezuela propelled and influenced the independence of several countries in South America, explaining the development of the anti-imperialist campaign that carried Simon Bolivar and the United Liberation Army on horseback.

He commented that the attempt of the oligarchies that hated Father Liberator, to silence the Venezuelan example of those years, was recounted in the speech of President Nicolás Maduro, this July 5, commemorating 214 years of Venezuelan Independence. “Yesterday, his wonderful speech draws it out clearly. What happened after 1811,” he said.

He also recalled that Venezuelans, during 300 years of slavery and Spanish imperial colonization, were not aware of their Homeland, because it didn't exist, for this reason, it required “a gigantic mental effort to build an idea that didn't exist, because considering Venezuela as a project could only be possible until, nothing more and nothing less, than the signing of the Declaration of Independence of 1811.”

He stressed that it was from there, when it was constituted as a Sovereign and Independent Republic, Venezuela is the protagonist of a feat in confronting with determination the independence war of Bolivar and the heroes and heroines of two centuries ago, a war that lasted for a little more than a decade.

This anti-imperialist struggle, where more than half of the Venezuelan population perished under the bullets of the Spanish empire, was a process that demonstrated the libertarian drive and passion of Venezuelans.

“All these elements are present in us, Venezuelans, that's why we are the way we are: rebels and we were able to defeat nothing more and nothing less than the most powerful empire on the planet, and, by the way, defeating the most powerful military force like that of Pablo Morillo, when he arrived in Venezuela in 1815 with 15,000 men and came to defeat Napoleon Bonaparte, none other than Napoleon,” he stressed.