Retreived from: https://rsf.org/en/ranking. DOI: http://doi.org/10.16993/iberoamericana.427, Andrade G, Lugo-Ocando J. Retrieved from: http://www.archivodellibertador.gob.ve/escritos/buscador/spip.php?article10971. Orientalism. He was a spirited combatant of monarchies, yet he insisted on being president for life (i.e., a king without a crown). The Angostura Address 200 Years Later: A Critical Reading. Bolivars authoritarian turn came later in his political career, well after independence was sealed. Furthermore, by 1814, Napoleons troops retreated from Spain, and Ferdinand VII returned to power. As our role has always been strictly passive and political existence nil, we find that our quest for liberty is now even more difficult of accomplishment; for we, having been placed in a state lower than slavery, had been robbed not only of our freedom but also of the right to exercise an active domestic tyranny . By contrast, Counter-Enlightenment authors such as Joseph de Maistre argued thus: In the course of my life, I have seen Frenchmen, Italians, Russians, etc. This time he understood that he could not make a frontal assault on Caracas, so he decided to begin a campaign of guerrilla warfare in the Eastern and Southern region of Guayana, in Venezuela, via the Orinoco River. ), The Works of Joseph de Maistre. Admittedly, Bolivar came late to abolitionist ideals. State Fullerton. La Gran Colombia: una ilusin ilustrada. There are some accounts that suggest instead that Bolivar may have been genuinely concerned with perpetual dictators at first (Harwich 2001). Carlos Marx y Simn Bolvar: Apunte sobre el liderazgo autoritario en un movimiento de liberacin nacional. Desarrollo Econmico, 8(30/31): 293311. 1, 2018, pp. Yet, Bolivars point is that Spanish imperialism is even worse than Oriental despotism, inasmuch as the control exercised by the Spanish Crown is even tighter than in Eastern societies. This address is for the Congress of Angostura in which the first issue he places on the table is that the mestizos are not European, nor Indians, but a mixture of both Spaniard and native blood. If he exists, I certainly have no knowledge of him (Maistre 1965: 80). He is the head of government, but his ministers and subordinates rely more upon law than upon his authority, as they are personally responsible; and not even decrees of royal authority can exempt them from this responsibility. In most cases, these celebrations served the political purpose of legitimating the parties in power that organized the festivities and appropriating nationalists sentiments that could help boost popular support. Across his address, Bolvar Stoan, SK. But, such celebrations should be devoid of nationalist distortions, and they should be cleansed of the typical hero-worship that has taken place in Latin America for the last 150 years, and has accelerated in Venezuela during the last 20 years. The opportunity came in 1808 when Napoleon invaded Spain, and the Caracas junta which became the facto government- rejected Spanish authority in Seville in 1810, and reaffirmed its allegiance to Ferdinand VII, who was imprisoned by Napoleon. In Simon Bolivar's Message to the Congress of Angostura, he states that Latin American people deserve their independence. How, exactly, does the potential for abuse in a monarchy justify the expansion of executive power in a republic? To fully grasp the most brilliant thought of the time, some basic context is required. When it came to liberty, Rousseau himself had some qualms about how truly liberal a State should be, to the point that he claimed in an oft-quoted phrase from The Social Contract, that subjects should be forced to be free (Roberts 2012: 117). Who could resist the glorious attraction of the full and absolute enjoyment of sovereignty, independence, and liberty? If the Senate were hereditary rather than elective, it would, in my opinion, be the basis, the tie, the very soul of our republic. In this regard, Bolivar very much anticipates Tocquevilles analysis in Democracy in America. The Bourbon reforms sought to change that, and they succeeded in doing so. This is an understandable and legitimate point. He was a staunch anti-colonialist when it came to Spanish America; but he had high praises for the Roman imperial ethos, he seemed content with the British imperialism of his day, and he repeated many of the tropes typical of 19th Century colonialist thinking. In the Angostura Address, Bolivar, typical in his style, praises North American society over and over again: Our legislators were influenced by the provincials, and were carried away by the dazzling appearance of North Americas happiness, thinking that the blessings she enjoyed were owed exclusively to the form of government, and not to the character of the people (Bolivar 1819). Again, Bolivar never answers. Iberoamericana Nordic Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 47 (1): 7482. As with any leader who faces the dichotomy between utopias and realities, Bolivar had some profound ideological transformations throughout his political and military career. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034670500001534, Andrade, G. and Lugo-Ocando, J., 2018. 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Almost immediately, Bolivar had to confront a revolt lead by Juan Domingo de Monteverde y Rivas (17731832) and Jos Toms Boves (17821814), who lured black slaves, mulatos and indigenous people to swore allegiance to the legitimate Spanish King who by then had been re-stated to the Crown. Castro, P. 2007. Happy the citizen that under the shield of arms under his command, has convoked National Sovereignty to exercise its absolute will! But in truth, for most of the 20th Century, Bolivar was more frequently an icon of authoritarian right-wing military Latin American governments, who quite openly opposed democratic institutions. He prepared weeks in advance the speech delivered on February 15th, 2019, to delegates of the Congress. Bolivar insists that, in monarchies, the executive power becomes too powerful, as it enjoys too many advantages. Download date: August 25th, 2018. In the Angostura Address, Bolivar engages in some confusing argumentation trying to justify the concentration of power in the executive branch of government: In a republic, the executive ought to be the strongest, because everything conspires against it; and on the other hand in a monarchy the legislative ought to be the most powerful, as everything unites in favor of the sovereign (Bolivar 1819). Angostura (plant), a genus in the family Rutaceae. Lynch, J. El proceso ideolgico de la emancipacin en Colombia. Thus our position is most extraordinary and complicated. Most of the figures of the Spanish Enlightenment became afrancesados, thinkers who believe Spain should embrace French customs. In the Angostura Address, he returns to this theme: The more I admire the excellency of the Federal Constitution of Venezuela, the more am I convinced of the impossibility of applying it to our situation (Bolivar 1819). However, it would be a mistake to think that it was only after the independence that he became aware of this. Surely, the best homage we may render to Bolivar on occasion of the 200th anniversary of his Angostura Address, is to critically engage with his work, objectively describe his views, and present him as he truly was: a great man, but not a demigod. However, later on, in the Constitution that he wrote for Upper Peru (named Bolivia in his honor) in 1826 and that he attempted to impose on Colombia afterwards, he stipulated the figure of President for Life. 2018;47(1):7482. Indeed, he was, but even more so from an intellectual point of view. Yale University Press. We are controlled by a system which deprives us of the rights to which we are entitled, and leaves us in a sort of permanent infancy with respect to public affairs (Bolivar 1819). Although there were many reasons for Bolivars disputes with Francisco de Paula Santander (17921840) and other conspirators in Bogota, it was by far the ambition of becoming President for Life that turned out to be the most crucial amongst his opponents. Europeans still perceived Spain more as an African country, as in Alexandre Dumas (himself of African descent) apocryphal observation: Africa begins at the Pyrenees (Altaschul 2012: 11), and Enlightened Spaniards tried hard to overcome that. . The rationale was that people with any degree of African descent would not be eligible for full representation. Be as it may, however, the Constitution of Bolivia of 1826 proved to be his outdoing. A political upheaval that took place between 1765 ad 1783 during which colonists in the Thirteen American Colonies rejected the British monarchy and aristocracy, overthrew the authority of Great Britain, and founded the United States of America. Reprint ed., Washington, D.C.: Press of B. S. Adams, 1919. Although Bolivar admired British imperialism more for its liberal ethos than for its military might (as opposed to the despotism of Spain), he was still a man of arms, and imbued his political ideas with militarism. House of Angostura, a Trinidad and Tobago company manufacturing angostura bitters. One common colonialist trope in the 19th Century was the concept of Oriental despotism (Wittfogel, 1953), popularized by Hegel and Hegelians especially Karl Marx himself. It should be strongly proportioned to meet the resistance, which the executive must expect from the legislature, from the judiciary, and from the people of a republic. Under the flags of freedom: slave soldiers and the wars of independence in Spanish South America. We all owe it our obedience and loyalty. The Angostura Address 200 Years Later: A Critical Reading. DOI: http://doi.org/10.16993/iberoamericana.427, 1. Caracas: Alfa. The ministers, being responsible for any transgressions committed, will actually govern, since they must account for their actions. ended four years prior. No matter what citizen occupies this office, he will be aided by the Constitution, and therein being authorized to do good, he can do no harm, because his ministers will cooperate with him only insofar as he abides by the law. Paredes Muante, J. Download date: August 25th, 2018. This time, he wandered throughout the Caribbean. Columbus: Ohio State University Press. At least theoretically, this would ensure that criollos would no longer be second class citizens. the Liberator Simn Bolvar's address to the Congress of Angostura, 200 years after the delivery of this monumental work. 47, no. Introduction to Political Thought. He is directly subject to the legislative body, the senate, and the people: he is the one man who resists the combined pressure of the opinions, interests, and passions of the social state and who, as Carnot states, does little more than struggle constantly with the urge to dominate and the desire to escape domination. Bolivar must have been aware that his liberal and enlightened audience would object to his proposal, inasmuch as it reminded them too much of the old Spanish imperial regime and its inegalitarian institutions. It is no speculation to argue that he was legitimately worried by the prospect that the emerging nations would not have a sufficiently defined national identity for viable political institutions. . Breaking up with TINA? Carta a Francisco de Paula Santander. Iberoamericana Nordic Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 47(1), pp.7482. Andrade G, Lugo-Ocando J. Helg, A. However, a very strong point of contention in the Cadiz Cortes, was the demographic balance in the representation of deputies. . The will of the Grand Sultan, the Khan, the Bey, and other despotic sovereigns, is the supreme law, and it is arbitrarily executed by the pashas and inferior governors in Turkey and Persia, where the system of oppression is completely organized, and is submitted to by the people because of the authority from which it emanates. Bolivar was given some military assignments in defending the Venezuelan Republic against loyalists of the Spanish monarchy. Bolivar, S. 1819. And, at times, he seems to believe that, the new nations are not sufficiently mature to be wholly free: Liberty, says Rousseau, is a succulent food, but difficult to digest. Angostura bitters, a flavoring. Bolivar was very eloquent in denouncing the vices of Spanish imperialism in his vociferous anti-colonial stand. Former colonial powers may be admired in many regards, but that does not imply that there is exclusively one single path to progress that must be followed by all nations on Earth. DOI: http://doi.org/10.16993/iberoamericana.427, Andrade, G., & Lugo-Ocando, J. Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Christopher H. [R-NJ-4] (Introduced 02/24/2023) Committees: House - Foreign Affairs; Judiciary: Committee Meetings: 02/28/23 2:00PM: Latest Action: House - 02/24/2023 Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as . The British executive power possesses all the authority properly appertaining to a sovereign, but a triple line of dams, barriers, and stockades surrounds him. Some nostalgic defenders of the Spanish Empire in Latin American countries claim that the Indies were not colonies at all. New York: McMillan. Iberoamericana Nordic Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, vol. The morality of slavery was by no means a settled debate during the time of the Angostura Address. Bogota: Random House. This would become a perennial feature amongst many Latin American caudillos ever since and something that would dominate most of the regions politics and society for the next century (Castro 2007). In: Lively, J (ed. During the Second National Congress of Angostura on February 15, 1819 Bolivar stood and gave an address that would form its own place in history. Draper, H. 1968. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ncr.2003.0004. Simn Bolvar, "An Address of Bolvar at the Congress of Angostura (February 15, 1819)" Background As a young man, Simn Bolvar (1783-1830), who would become known as "El Libertador" ("The Liberator") in Latin America, spent a few years in Europe. After some military action in New Grenada (modern-day Colombia), Bolivar returned to Venezuela in 1812 and after a remarkable series of military triumphs he managed to recapture the capital Caracas (Lopez and Lopez 1999). Maistre, J. Wittfogel, K. 1953. "An assembly of tried and illustrious men, the Congress of Angostura, responded to the important requirements of the revolution, and when it gave birth to . Bolivar, S. 1821. All three sources reveal patriotic feelings and attitudes towards their own countries. With us it is quite different. El culto a Bolivar: Esbozo para un estudio de la historia de las ideas en Venezuela. He thus anticipated these objections, by trying to assure the audience that a hereditary Senate would not be aristocratic: In no manner whatever would the creation of a hereditary senate be a violation of political equality; it is not a nobility I wish to establish, because that, as has been said by a celebrated republican, would be to destroy at once equality and liberty. During Simon Bolivar's address at the Congress of Angostura, in 1819, he argued for the freedom of the people of Latin America. Las Indias no eran colonias. This new nation . But there is more. Scanned by J. S. Arkenberg, Dept. Yet, despite his admiration for the United States, Bolivar insists that South American nations are not ready for federalism or even North American institutions as a whole, on account of a cultural mismatch: Would it not be extremely difficult to apply to Spain the political, civil, and religious code of Great Britain? The people are more easily deceived than is Nature perfected by art; and although these senators, it is true, would not be bred in an environment that is all virtue, it is equally true that they would be raised in an atmosphere of enlightened education. A depiction of the Congress of Ccuta (1821). Contemporary anti-colonialists place much emphasis on the acknowledgement of cultural diversity, and Bolivar certainly took it into account when deciding what the best political path for a nation is. The executive power, consisting of two consuls, had the same flaw as Sparta. Strategies for Economic Development, Moments and Events in Latin American Economic Development, Document #35: Testimony before Congress on the Goals of NAFTA and Preliminary Evaluation, C. Fred Bergsten (1997), Document #36: NAFTA Equals Death, Say Peasant Farmers, Diego Cevalos (2002), Chapter 13. What government is more ancient than that of China? Altaschul, N. 2012. From there, with the auspices of President Alexandre Petion (17701818) that included 6.000 soldiers, money and even a print- (Helg 2003), Bolivar returned to Venezuela with a military expedition. It is certainly the case that, during Habsburg times (the dynasty before the arrival of the Bourbons), the Indies were not colonies in the modern sense. Reporters Without Borders. In 1829, in the mist of continuous crises of legitimacy, some of Bolivars loyalists in Bogota proposed to establish a monarchy, with Bolivar as king, although his title would be Liberator; he would then have a European prince as successor (Lynch 2010: 263). Retrieved from: https://es.wikisource.org/wiki/Carta_de_Bol%C3%ADvar_al_general_Juan_Jos%C3%A9_Flores_(1830). In the context of early 19th Century Venezuela, this was a major accomplishment. It was only the chaos of post-colonial South American politics, which drove him towards an increasingly authoritarian approach. The first time he mentions freedom he says, "Americans by birth and Europeans by law, we find ourselves engaged in a dual conflict: we are disputing with the natives for titles of ownership, and at the same time we are struggling to maintain ourselves in the country that . Mexico: The Taming of a Revolution, Travels and Adventures, William Carpenter (1851), A Mexican Journey, E.H. Blichfeldt (1912), Document #3: President Diaz: Hero of the Americas, James Creelman (1908), Document #4: Plan de San Luis de Potos, Francisco Madero (1910), Document #5: Program of the Liberal Party, Ricardo Flores Magn (1911), Document #6: Plan de Ayala, Emiliano Zapata (1911), Document #7: Speech to the Nation, Lzaro Crdenas (1938), Document #8: First Declaration from the Lacandon Jungle, Today We Say Enough is Enough! (Ya Basta! Venezuela: The Perils of Prosperity, Document #23: Address to the United Nations, Hugo Chvez (2006), Document #22: Pact of Punto Fijo, Accin Democrtica, COPEI and Unin Republicana Democrtica (1958), Chapter 9. If a people, perverted by their training, succeed in achieving their liberty, they will soon lose it, for it would be of no avail to endeavor to explain to them that happiness consists in the practice of virtue; that the rule of law is more powerful than the rule of tyrants, because, as the laws are more inflexible, every one should submit to their beneficent austerity; that proper morals, and not force, are the bases of law; and that to practice justice is to practice liberty. 2018. Slavery is the daughter of darkness: an ignorant people is a blind instrument of its own destruction. Despite the confusing nature of some of these arguments, we must not lose sight of the fact that Bolivar was, above all, a man of revolutionary action, and he responded to particular historical circumstances that may have required some necessary measure in the mist of the chaos originated in the civil war that had been going on for almost ten years. It met from February 15, 1819, established the new independent-from-Spain nation on December 17, was interrupted by further independentist activity, and reconvened on July 31, 1821, when . I will add that that people is unique in the history of the human race, and repeat that it is a miracle that a system as weak and complicated as the federal should have existed under so difficult and delicate circumstances as those which have occurred (Bolivar 1819). The population in the Americas was far greater than the population in the Iberian Peninsula, yet, only a minority of deputies posts were assigned to representatives of the American territories. Central America: Within the U.S. Orbit, Timeline for Central America, 1502-Present, Central American Profiles and Personalities, Forced Disappearance and Impunity in El Jute, Guatemala, Document #9: Introduction to the Shark and the Sardines, Juan Jos Arvalo (1956), Document #10: Acceptance and Nobel Lecture, Rigoberta Mench (1992), Document #11: Special Report No. He makes his first point very quickly in the first sentence, "We are not Europeans.Americans by birth and Europeans by law." After Spains humiliating defeat in the Seven Years War, Charles III understood the necessity to cleanse the corrupt and inefficient administration of the Spanish Empire. 2004. The address is presented in Spanish with a short editorial introduction in English. Again, Bolivar was certainly a big critic of Spanish imperialism, but he did not seem to mind other empires. Some critics have accussed Bolvar of verbosity. Document #41: "Address at a White House Reception for Members of Congress and for the Diplomatic Corps of the Latin American Republics," John F. Kennedy (1961) Discussion Questions; Further Reading; Chapter 16. This supreme authority must be perpetual (Bolivar 1819). His praise for division of powers was also only half-hearted. The Congress ultimately decided not to pursue two of Bolivars most controversial proposals in the Angostura Address: a moral power, and a hereditary senate. Addressing the Congress of Angostura, 1819 [Bolvar addresses the Congress of Angostura. A strongly rooted force can only correct this weakness. Congress of Angostura, an 1819-1821 legislative body of Gran Colombia. 2018 Freedom of Speech Index. 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