The Jamaican Charter: Vision of the Liberator Who Dreamed of the Unity of Peoples
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Published at: 06/09/2025 06:59 AM
On September 6, 1815, the Liberator Simon Bolivar wrote
one of his most famous and fruitful documents, the Letter from Jamaica,
addressed to the English citizen Henry Cullen, where he explains the causes that
led to the loss of the Second Republic in Venezuela and the imperative
need for European countries to support the
independence movement in Hispanic America, revealing his full conviction about the integration of our peoples.
At the end
of 1814, after the loss of the Second Republic, Bolívar left Venezuela
again. In the midst of adversity, El Libertador
toured part of the Caribbean, and without breaking his spirits he continued to fight,
seeking new support for Venezuela's cause of independence.
In
this context, in 1815 he traveled to Jamaica. He seeks a retreat there to outline
his plans for the liberation of the provinces of New Granada. In
Jamaican lands, he wrote different letters and explained to important
personalities of the time the exploits of Venezuelan patriots and their right to independence.
During his
stay on the Caribbean island of Jamaica, he drafted the famous Charter with the intention of negotiating
the cooperation of the English government to
continue the fight for freedom.
The Letter of
Jamaica is a letter written with the purpose of responding to the English
citizen Henry Cullen, and is dated in Kingston, on September 6, 1815.
There, Bolívar analyzes the
efforts of the different patriotic movements, carrying out a
sociological, political and cultural study of the conditions of the
Spanish-American peoples, their strengths and weaknesses, justifying the
decision to free themselves from the Spanish yoke, urging the countries of the world to support the independence of America.
The
Liberator of Five Nations ends this paper by arguing the
need for Latin American countries to achieve union to create
a single republic, which counterbalances the excessive ambitions of the great powers.
Mazo News Team