Venezuela

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there words and worldview as years upon years of dictatorships dominated the country up to the people rising to form a democracy. During colonial Spanish rule, the nation lacked political unity for two and a half century's. It was a true land of the people with no Spanish recognition as it was of no importance to the Spanish crown. The country would be under the leadership of other far away territory's like Bogotá and Santo Domingo leading to a degree of local autonomy ran by municipal authorities with what could be seen as the closest thing to a democracy in Latin America at the time. This colonial Venezuela felt the first wrath of a dictatorship rule when the Spanish Empire decided to stop the nation's trade with the British and Dutch in what the empire called "illegal inter-colonial trade", in the effort to contain the trade for itself. In 1728, the Caracas Company was formed and given exclusive rights to all trade. The company proved quite successful while the people of ...

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the leadership of far off Bogotá, the capital of Gran Columbia. In the 1820's Venezuelan nationalism centered in Caracas would lead to their separation from Gran Columbia under the direction of another military general named Páez. Páez would be the start of a century long post independence era of dictatorships that obtained power through military might and the caudillismo or "upper class". Similar to how our country is ruled today.
Simón Bolivar was correct that his counterparts could not run a democratic government and this remain true into the 20[th] century. The want for democracy started however in the 1880's, almost eighty years before it would succeed. In 1888 a riot by ...

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