Juan Crisóstomo Falcón: Bravo in the fight and magnanimous in the victory (+Christmas)

This Saturday, January 27, marks the 204th anniversary of the birth of Juan Crisóstomo Falcón, a prominent Venezuelan military and politician who led the movement against federalists and centralists, together with General Ezequiel Zamora.

A native of Jadacaquiva, in the Paraguaná Peninsula, this important Creole hero led, together with Guzmán Blanco, the movement against the Páez dictatorship in 1862.

His military career began in defense of the regime of General José Tadeo Monagas in the battle of Taratara, where he faced the PAEC soldier Judas Tadeo Piñango, on the orders of generals Antonio Valero and Trinidad Portocarrero.

He acted in the fight of La Bacoa (Coro) on August 18, 1849, as head of a column that managed to defeat General Francisco Carmona, he stood out for being brave in the fight and magnanimous in the victory.

Falcón was persecuted by the Julián Castro regime and was expatriated in June 1858, heading to the Caribbean islands. On March 22, 1859, he returned to Venezuela along with Zamora for La Vela de Coro, accompanied by José Desiderio, Napoleon Sebastián Arteaga, José Gabriel Ochoa and others. Later, he was elected Constitutional President in October 1864.

He returned to Coro after his resignation from the presidency in 1866 and accompanied by the liberal revolutionary triumph led by Antonio Guzmán Blanco.

He finally died in 1870, on the Caribbean island-Martinique, as a result of laryngeal cancer; his remains were sent to the National Pantheon on May 1, 1874.

Mazo News Team