The president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, led this Wednesday the event that commemorates the Bicentennial of the Takeover of Puerto Cabello, a brilliant military operation commanded by José Antonio Páez on November 7 and 8, 1823, using the Principle of “Surprise” War.
In that military operation, naked troops were used in a stealthy night movement, occupying the trenches, and two days later the castle of San Felipe (a work of military architecture, also known as Castillo Libertador, located at the Agustín Armario naval base in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela), last royalist bastion in Venezuela.
With this, the war of independence and Spanish rule for more than three hundred years culminated in a glorious way; The dream of the Father of the Nation, Simón Bolívar, materialized, expressed to the four winds in ancient Rome on Monte Sacro on August 15, 1805.
That date vindicates nowadays the spaces of this city, 200 years later, such as the Bicentennial Plaza of Puerto Cabello; with rehabilitated areas, and which are appreciated in a tour carried out by the Venezuelan Head of State, in the context of the Bicentennial of the Taking of Puerto Cabello.
In the order of this tour, those present in the Plaza Bicentenaria will also be able to see the play “Resemblance of the Puerto Cabello Takeover”, by the Compañía Regional de Teatro de Carabobo theater group, and the exhibition of emblematic models of the historical evolution of the city of Puerto Cabello.
