Predictably, very much as Bolivar did in 1828, watching over public morality in the Bolivarian Revolution became despotic in itself, and many of Venezuelas basic freedoms (but most especially freedom of speech; Venezuela currently occupies number 143, as indexed by Reporters Without Borders (2018)) have deteriorated over the last 18 years. Thus our position is most extraordinary and complicated. The Angostura Address 200 Years Later: A Critical Reading. 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). Yet, Bolivar (very much as Unamuno would do almost a century later), embraced Spains African identity. 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. Bolivar was fully aware that whoever takes on the responsibility of demolishing an ancient order, must also immediately come up with ideas for a new one. 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. Reprint ed., Washington, D.C.: Press of B. S. Adams, 1919. Needless to say, Bolivar hoped to become precisely a perpetual figurehead in the politics of the region and went to describe the role as follows: The President of the Republic comes to be in our Constitution, as the Sun that, firm in the center, gives life to the Universe. ended four years prior. Reprint ed., Washington, D.C.: Press of B. S. Adams, 1919. from the Original Spanish by Francisco Javier Ynes). Bolivar, typical of his rhetorical style, concluded the Angostura Address with these words: Gentlemen! Leiva, L. 1985. 7482. Who could resist the admiration and esteem inspired by an intelligent government, which unites at the same moment public and private rights, which forms by general consent the supreme law of individuals? While the courts and judges are dependent on the executive power, the laws originate in and are made by Parliament. Bolivars stand on the abolition of monarchy, however, is more problematic. 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. Iberoamericana Nordic Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 47, no. He failed miserably, the Republic collapsed, and after guaranteeing his own freedom by turning against Francisco de Miranda he managed to flee into exile (Paredes 2015). The Viceroyalty of New Granadawhich included present-day Colombia, Panama, Venezuela, and parts of Ecuadorachieved independence from the Spanish Empire in a slow and uneven process. His "Angostura Address of 1819" is much more than just a regular speech that any politician would make throughout the course of their career. Venezuelans were by no means unanimous in their desire to be independent and consequently a bloody civil war began. Oxford University Press. He was moved towards abolitionism by Haitian President Alexandre Petion, who offered him military support in exchange of the attempt to abolish slavery from liberated territories. The Congress ultimately decided not to pursue two of Bolivars most controversial proposals in the Angostura Address: a moral power, and a hereditary senate. Bolivar was a great man of action and an important thinker, but he was still flawed in many regards. To get his point across, Bolivar returns to the question of cultural identity in the Angostura Address, but adds an interesting remark about Spain: Let us bear in mind that our population is neither European nor North American, but are closer to a blend of Africa and America than they are to Europe, for even Spain herself is not strictly European due to its African blood, institutions and character (Bolivar 1819). The creation of a hereditary senate would in no way be a violation of political equality. Mine is done. 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). Levenes thesis proposes that the Indies were actually kingdoms with the same legal standing as kingdoms in the Iberian Peninsula; the implication is that Bolivars struggle for independence was unjustified. Caracas: Monte Avila Editores. Prof. Arkenberg has modernized the text. Would it not be most difficult to apply to Spain the English system of political, civil, and religious liberty: Hence, it would be even more difficult to adapt to Venezuela the laws of North America. These leaders assumed the role of dictators while rhetorically expressing their reluctance to do so. Caracas: Alfa. Let us start by saying that by 1819, Simon Bolivar was a very uncertain man who had lived till then a hectic life. This is an understandable and legitimate point. If he attempts to infringe upon the law, his own ministers will desert him, thereby isolating him from the Republic, and they will even bring charges against him in the Senate. Yet, there were still notable Spanish Enlightenment figures (Jovellanos, Mayans, Olavide, amongst others). Introduction to Political Thought. 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. Mexico: The Taming of a Revolution. 1. Thus, the Angostura Address is plentiful with passages such as these: Sir! The wording is unmistakably reminiscent of Benthams philosophy, and indeed, the English philosopher was a major influence on Bolivars political thinking. Damas, G. 1983. Castro-Klarn, S. 2003. How, exactly, does the potential for abuse in a monarchy justify the expansion of executive power in a republic? One of the most significant transformations was his approach to the position of a President for Life. Edinburgh University Press. How does an aristocratic principle, such as hereditary privilege, motivate sharing the peoples interests, opinions and spirit? ), The Works of Joseph de Maistre. We all owe it our obedience and loyalty. Yale University Press. Angostura (plant), a genus in the family Rutaceae. ; I am even aware, thanks to Montesquieu, that one can be a Persian. The Angostura Address: Cultural identity, ethnic relations Although never formally educated in universities, Bolivar was a self-taught man and had at least two illustrious tutors who were the arguably the leading intellectuals of the region at the time; Simon Rodriguez and Andres Bello. Scanned by J. S. Arkenberg, Dept. Dynamics of Political Transformation, Supplement: Comparative Historical Analysis, Moments and Events of Political Transformation, The Historical and Contemporary Role of Women in Ecuadorian Society, Brazilian Sambas Translation and Dialogue with International Dancesport, Dominican Republic Latin America at the Movies, El Salvador Latin America at the Movies, Chapter 15. The address is presented in Spanish with a short editorial introduction in English. Bolivar was not really greatly concerned with these events in Spain. El caudillismo en Amrica Latina, ayer y hoy. That Constitution, labeled the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, written under the auspices of Hugo Chavez and the self-proclaimed Bolivarian Revolution, went to great lengths in attempting to imitate Bolivarian thinking in every aspect of political organization. Unless the executive has easy access to all the administrative resources, fixed by a just distribution of powers, he inevitably becomes a nonentity or abuses his authority. Scanned by: J. S. Arkenberg, Dept. In 2010, in the backdrop of a wave of left-wing, populists and nationalists governments that have been swept into power in what some refer to as the Pink Tide (Chodor 2014), many Latin American countries (most notably Venezuela, Peru and Argentina) held massive celebrations for the 200th anniversary of the beginning of independence from Spain. 80: Communist Interference in El Salvador, and Response to Stories Published in the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post, U.S. Department of State and Alexander Haig (1981), Document #12: Testimonies of Guatemalan Women, Luz Alicia Herrera (1980), Chapter 5. 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). Bolvar, Simn. For, his intellectual and political legacy is a mixed bag. There can be multiple answers to this question: These sources both signify a change in attitude with the people of each nation. 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). Throughout many of his private writings, Bolivar expressed enormous concerns about pardocracia, the takeover by pardos. Do we not read in Montesquieus Spirit of the Laws that laws should be suited to the people making them, and that it is extremely unlikely that the laws of our nation will suit another? (Bolivar 1819). During Simon Bolivar's address at the Congress of Angostura, in 1819, he argued for the freedom of the people of Latin America. Inspired by the revolutions of both the. June 13, 1821. New York: McMillan. If the Senate were hereditary rather than elective, it would, in my opinion, be the basis, the tie, the very soul of our republic. the Liberator Simn Bolvar's address to the Congress of Angostura, 200 years after the delivery of this monumental work. 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. In the speech, Bolvar lays the foundations for the establishment of democratically governed Gran Colombia that is free from the burden of slavery and racial inequality. He had some clear political motivations in doing this, (i.e., as an argument to reject federalism and favor stronger governments leaning towards authoritarianism). And it is for this very reason that Bolivar believes that federalism works in North America, but it would never work in South America. This bring us to one of our key questions: Had Bolivar already planned to be a perpetual dictator by 1819 and was the Angostura Address paying mere lip service to the principle of alterability in power? The Angostura Address 200 Years Later: A Critical Reading. Columbus: Ohio State University Press. La Gran Colombia: una ilusin ilustrada. Simon Bolvar's 1819 address to the Congress of Angostura took place in Venezuela during the long course of the struggle for independence. Formerly, criollos had major participation in the administration of the Empire. Nothing in our fundamental laws would have to be altered were we to adopt a legislative power similar to that held by the British Parliament. Simn Bolvar: Liberation and Disappointment. I do not solicit the establishment of a nobility, for as a celebrated republican has said, that would simultaneously destroy equality and liberty. Precisely because no form of government is so weak as the democratic, its framework must be firmer, and its institutions must be studied to determine their degree of stability.unless this is done, we will have to reckon with an ungovernable, tumultuous, and anarchic society, not with a social order where happiness, peace, and justice prevail. In political storms this body would arrest the thunderbolts of the government and would repel any violent popular reaction. Predictably, many of these celebrations were carried out without sufficiently critical and objective approach towards historical data. Liberty has been its cradle, it has grown up in liberty, and it is maintained by pure liberty. After he assumed full dictatorial powers in 1828, Bolivar severely limited various basic liberties, appealing to reasons of public morality. http://doi.org/10.16993/iberoamericana.427, https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226016191.001.0001, http://www.archivodellibertador.gob.ve/escritos/buscador/spip.php?article9987, http://www.archivodellibertador.gob.ve/escritos/buscador/spip.php?article10971, https://www.ensayistas.org/antologia/XIXA/bolivar/bolivia.htm, https://es.wikisource.org/wiki/Carta_de_Bol%C3%ADvar_al_general_Juan_Jos%C3%A9_Flores_(1830), http://www.redalyc.org/pdf/267/26702702.pdf, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022216X03006849, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034670500001534. 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. Wittfogel, K. 1953. In this regard, despite his flaws, he is to be considered one the great men of South American history. Bolvar had the objective of emerging a plan of governance as he lays out his understanding of the independence movement and his belief on how the future of Latin American nations should be legally structured. Download date: August 25th, 2018. The Enlightenment did not reach Spain with the same force as it did in France or Great Britain. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press. Originally published in 1923, as part of the Cambridge Plain Texts series, this volume contains the complete text of Simn Bolvar's address before the Venezuelan Congress at Angostura on February 15, 1819. Andrade G, Lugo-Ocando J. Bolivar was certainly the foremost figure that synthetized formal political thought, constitutional doctrine, and revolutionary action. Please look indulgently on this declaration of my political vision, on my heartfelt desires and my earnest pleas, which I have dared to address to you in the name of the people (Bolivar 1819). Delhi: Penguin Books. He ardently defended freedoms, yet he believed that South American nations were not fully prepared for liberal systems. Prof. Arkenberg has modernized the text. 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The case could be made, however, that, in the context of revolutionary struggle, perhaps Bolivar was not aspiring to create an old-fashioned nobility, but rather, a neutral organ intermediate between executive and popular instances. Addressing the Congress of Angostura, 1819 [Bolvar addresses the Congress of Angostura. Por que no soy bolivariano. 3(1): 2553. This text is part of the Internet Modern History Sourcebook. Bolivar makes a sophistic gap that leaves careful readers perplexed. What state is more powerful than Great Britain? years prior to the Congress of Angostura. He first settled in Jamaica, and then in Haiti. An Address of Bolvar at the Congress of Angostura (February 15, 1819). As he explains it in the Angostura Address: In absolute governments there are no limits to the authority of public functionaries. There was no exact distribution of power there. Orientalism. 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. Angostura bitters, a flavoring. They also seemed to understand that a moral power could very easily be turned into a censoring body that hastily suppresses individual freedoms. 1 (2018): 7482. 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. However, as we will argue in this paper, it is precisely due to the nationalist distortions that are likely to occur around the nature and context of the Angostura delivery that calls for a more critical reading of the document. By then, Bolivars movement was seen as one that intended to establish a Republic for the white criollos, which explains partly why Boves savagely occupied Valencia and executed so many of the white elite (Stoan 1974). One of the main thesis of that classic work of political philosophy, is that American democracy is not only built on a particular form of government and its institutions, but also on the cultural foundations of Americans (Tocqueville 2004). Yet, it is very revealing that, in this and other passages, he has a predilection for Rousseau. His success, however, would again be short-lived, as in 1830 Gran Colombia ruptured into its three original constituent countries, and Bolivar would have to march into exile and died on his way in in the city of Santa Marta, before he could make it to Europe. The rationale was that people with any degree of African descent would not be eligible for full representation. Summary of H.R.541 - 118th Congress (2023-2024): BALE Act of 2023 Charles III introduced a system of comercio libre, free trade, but the name is very deceptive. Tocqueville, A. To fully grasp the most brilliant thought of the time, some basic context is required. 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 . Prof. Arkenberg has modernized the text. However, given that the rest of Venezuela was still controlled by Spanish authorities, only a few provinces could send delegates. Bolivar acknowledged that federal forms of government were theoretically virtuous, and that democratic systems of checks and balances were to be emulated. . Considerations on France. 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. The enforcement of public morality has repeatedly been associated with authoritarian regimes. The executive is commander in chief of the army and navy; he makes peace and declares war; but Parliament annually determines what sums are to be paid to these military forces. The Congress of Angostura is considered Venezuela's second legislative congress, the first being the one that met in 1811. Madrid: Espasa Calpe. 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. A big point of contention between Enlightenment thinkers and their Counter-Enlightenment foes, was about universalism. Again the Angostura Address of 1819 clearly shows a Bolivar who was already very concerned with the chaotic potential of an independent South America. Despite this, it was still an important event as Bolivar would communicate the basis of his political doctrine. Yet, astonishingly, Ferdinand abolished the 1812 Constitution, and imposed a new absolutist regime that, once again, contemplated the American territories as colonies. London: Longman Publishing Group. Levenes thesis is only half true. The Congress of Angostura is considered Venezuela's second legislative congress, the first being the one that met in 1811. Indeed, in the 18th Century, a series of reforms began to be undertaken by the new Spanish ruling dynasty, the Bourbons. Reporters Without Borders. Bolivar insists that, in monarchies, the executive power becomes too powerful, as it enjoys too many advantages. 2019 should definitely be a year of celebration, for the Angostura Address is a landmark political document. Ambition and intrigue abuses the credulity and experience of men lacking all political, economic, and civic knowledge; they adopt pure illusion as reality; they take license for liberty, treachery for patriotism, and vengeance for justice. However, this juncture would be rapidly embraced by radicals as an opportunity to proclaim independence from Spain in 1811 under the argument that they would not bow to an illegitimate French King. In order to achieve this political goal, Bolivar proposes conventional republican institutions: Venezuelas government has always been republican, it is republican, and it should always remain so. By 1812, liberals in Spain understood that, if the Empire were to survive, some further reforms were required. This logic is very hard to follow. But then, mysteriously, Bolivar argues that those very advantages are a good reason why a republican president should be endowed with greater power than a constitutional prince (Bolivar 1819). He prepared weeks in advance the speech delivered on February 15th, 2019, to delegates of the Congress. DOI: http://doi.org/10.16993/iberoamericana.427, Andrade, G., & Lugo-Ocando, J. Bolivar, S. 1826. Precisely because no form of government is so weak as the democratic, its framework must be firmer, and its institutions must be studied to determine their degree of stabilityunless this is done, we will have to reckon with an ungovernable, tumultuous, and anarchic society, not with a social order where happiness, peace, and justice prevail. From: Simn Bolvar, An Address of Bolivar at the Congress of Angostura (February 15, 1819), Reprint Ed., (Washington, D.C.: Press of B. S. Adams, 1919), passim. This speech, now known as the Angostura Address, is a prime document in the Bolivarian canon. This question becomes even more important as it was central to the separatist movement against the Great Colombia that finally overthrew him and led to his exile and ultimate death in solitude. Library of America. ), EZLN Command (1993), Chapter 4. An address of Bolivar at the Congress of Angostura (February 15, 1819) Reprint ordered by the government of the United States of Venezuela, to commemorate the centennial of the opening of the Congress by Bolvar, Simn, 1783-1830 2010. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ncr.2003.0004. An Address of Bolvar at the Congress of Angostura (February 15, 1819). Download date: August 25th, 2018. Cuba: Key Colony, Socialist State, From Haciendas to the Peal of the Antilles, The Island of Cuba, Alexander von Humboldt (1856), Through Afro-America, William Archer (1910), Document #13: Montecristi Manifesto, by Jos Mart and Mximo Gmez (1895), Document #14: My Race, Jose Mart (1893), Document #15: History Will Absolve Me, by Fidel Castro (1953), Document #17: What is Cubas Sin?, Fidel Castro (2003), Document #16: Statement from Mexico City, Juana Castro (1964), Chapter 6. The United States had just solidified their. State Fullerton. () Legislators! Once again, Bolivar had to flee. The executive power, consisting of two consuls, had the same flaw as Sparta. 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 gave us birth against the opposition of the invaders. Lynch, J. Government posts were bought and sold, thus being filled by grossly incompetent administrators. Las Indias no eran colonias. Again, contemporary anti-colonialists may find much of value in Bolivars words. Amrica Latina 4. We are not Europeans; we are not Indians; we are but a mixed species of aborigines and Spaniards. But, his concern was, if not legitimate, then at least understandable. 1826. 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). He was proud, and his words show it. Geographies of Philological Knowledge: Postcoloniality and the Trasatlantic National Epic. 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. Simon Bolivar's message to the Congress of Agostura is explaining that the people of Venezuela should be free and not be ruled over by someon thousands of miles of way. This new nation . In this regard, Bolivar very much anticipates Tocquevilles analysis in Democracy in America. 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. Americans and the French, Bolvar led the. Retrieved from: https://es.wikisource.org/wiki/Carta_de_Bol%C3%ADvar_al_general_Juan_Jos%C3%A9_Flores_(1830). 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. Thanks to these achievements he would then be invited by the Peruvian authorities to organize the military campaign against the remaining Spanish and loyalist forces in Peru and Upper Peru (modern-day Bolivia), thus completing the final defeat of the Spanish Empire in South America. It is unlikely that any liberal concessions from Spain would have changed his mind, but the fact that these concessions were very incomplete, and that they were ultimately abolished by Ferdinand VII, sealed in his mind the question regarding the break with Spain. Most of the figures of the Spanish Enlightenment became afrancesados, thinkers who believe Spain should embrace French customs. Yet, in 1999, Venezuelas constituents did uphold Bolivars original proposal, in a new Constitution. Although never formally educated in universities, Bolivar was a self-taught man and had at least two illustrious tutors who were the arguably the leading intellectuals of the region at the time; Simon Rodriguez and Andres Bello. . Retrieved from: https://www.ensayistas.org/antologia/XIXA/bolivar/bolivia.htm. This was by far the most important motive in the struggle for independence amongst the criollo elite, and throughout his writings, Bolivar makes very clear how important this issue is for him. The Enlightenment proclaimed the equality of all human beings, on account that we all share a common nature that makes human rights universal. Proyecto de Constitucion para la Republica de Bolivia y discurso del Libertador al Congreso Constituyente de Bolivia. By this I mean that the result will be the death of the government, whose heirs are anarchy, usurpation, and tyranny . hold on the North American continent five. Said, E. 2006. He appeals to the idea of a modern state of equality by claiming that "slavery is the daughter of darkness: an ignorant people is a blind instrument of its own destruction" (Boli var). Furthermore, by 1814, Napoleons troops retreated from Spain, and Ferdinand VII returned to power. This argument is hard to follow. 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