National Assembly recalled historic legacy present in our act of independence
AN Press
Published at: 05/07/2025 12:43 PM
This Saturday, July 5, the deputy to the National Assembly (AN), for the state of Táchira, Grecia Colmenares, was responsible for reading the Act of Independence, which proclaimed the Independence of the Homeland, on the occasion of the celebration of the 214th Anniversary of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence of Venezuela and Day of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB).
In this document, which establishes the decision of the representatives of the provinces of Caracas, Cumaná, Barinas, Margarita, Barcelona, Mérida and Trujillo, meeting in Congress, and considering their rights since April 19, 1810, to become independent from the Spanish Crown.
“We, in the name and with the will and authority of the virtuous people of Venezuela, solemnly declare to the world that their united provinces are and should be today more in fact and in law, free, sovereign and independent states, and that they are acquitted of all submission and dependence to the Crown of Spain or to those who call themselves or call themselves their proxies or representatives,” the document states.
“We generously forget the long series of evils, grievances and deprivations that the disastrous right of conquest has caused us without distinction to all the descendants of the discoverers, conquerors and inhabitants of these countries,” he said.
Colmenares continued reading the document. “As such a free and independent state, it has the full power to give itself the form of government that conforms to the will of its peoples, to declare war, to make peace, to form alliances, to settle trade, border and navigation treaties, and to do and execute all other acts that free and independent nations do and execute.”