By Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein His father’s and mother’s lineages indicated that Antonio José should first embrace a military career; his own father became commander-in-chief of the Cumaná Army. Before that, the sudden death of his mother and the new marriage of Don Vicente had a powerful influence on the life of the boy, who adopted an introverted and taciturn personality. ...
By Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein When the Liberator Simón Bolívar arrived in Peru on September 1, 1823, he found himself in a very complicated scenario. There were strong contradictions between José de la Riva-Agüero and the Marquis of Torre Tagle. The country had two presidents, two governments and two Congresses. In Colombia, although the situation was better, there were also difficulties ...
Two weeks ago, the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – People’s Trade Treaty (ALBA -TCP) held its XXIII summit in Caracas, Venezuela. Two readers wrote to me separately, asking if I wasn’t going to write about that event. Coincidentally, a few days later the General Secretariat of ALBA, which has its headquarters here in Caracas, invited me ...
By Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein I do not write this article with joy. Rather, I do it with pain, but when forms are not kept, things must be said by their name. The Presidents Lula and Petro decided to become part of the group of corifeos that, led by the United States and the European Union, attack Venezuela in the name ...
By Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein The leading world powers convened between November 1884 and February 1885 in the city of Berlin, invited by France and Great Britain and organized by the Chancellor of Germany, Otto von Bismarck, to organize the division of Africa. A few years later, in May 1916, through the Sykes-Picot Agreement, Great Britain and France did the same ...
By Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein * Mister Gustavo Petro President of the Republic of Colombia Honorable President Petro, I take the liberty to write to you in order to send you some comments regarding certain opinions that you have expressed in recent days in relation to Venezuela. My Colombian friends, some of whom are ordinary people, will be able to attest ...
By Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein * If we were to use modern terms, we would have to say that this July 26 and 27 have been commemorated as what could be considered the most important Summit meeting in the history of Latin America: the one that gathered General José de San Martín, the Liberator of the South and our Liberator and ...
The government of Mexico has celebrated the 238 anniversary of the birth of Simon Bolivar, “El Libertador de América” on past Saturday. The state ceremony was held in the Presidential Palace to honor Bolivar, who is considered a hero of anti-colonial struggle and Latin American unity. The ceremony took place within the framework of Mexico’s bicentennial anniversary of independence in ...
The Bicentennial Congress of the Peoples of the World (BCPW), under the motto “The union of women and men for the Revolution”, took place in Caracas, from June 21st to June 24th, of 2021. This popular Congress gathered grassroots movements, political parties, labor unions, NGOs, as well as intellectual and social activists, among others, in the capital of Venezuela, to ...