The Venezuelan State commemorated this Tuesday the 204th anniversary of the Battle of Carabobo, reaffirming its sovereignty by raising the national tricolor flag at the National Pantheon and Mausoleum of the Liberator Simón Bolívar in Caracas, according to a press release from the Ministry of People’s Power for Internal Affairs, Justice and Peace (MPPRIJP).
The event commemorated the efforts of the men and women who, led by the Liberator Simón Bolívar, sacrificed their lives for the independence, freedom, and sovereignty of Venezuela, expelling the last vestige of the royalist army of the Spanish crown from the national territory.
During the solemn ceremony, the Bolivarian Army and government authorities paid tribute to the Father of the Homeland with a floral wreath that was carried to his sarcophagus in the Monumental Complex National Pantheon and Mausoleum of the Liberator Simón Bolívar.
Honor, dignity, and patriotism resounded to the beat of the drum and the glorious notes of the National Anthem, as cadets of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) waved the National Flag in a perfect fusion of popular, military, and police forces.
The Battle of Carabobo on June 24, 1821, became a symbol of a people’s struggle for emancipation. It consolidated the country’s independence and represented the liberation of Venezuelan territory from the Spanish rule.
This crucial historical event for Venezuela’s independence was the product of Simón Bolívar’s anti-imperialist vision, thanks to his ideological reference of sovereignty, added to his audacity, skill, intelligence and leadership that obtained the liberation of Caracas and the Venezuelan territory from the Spanish empire led by the army of Miguel de la Torre, as refers the “Con El Mazo Dando” (Hitting with the Hammer) program.