Venezuela-Argentina Comparison (Ingles)
The beginning of the independence started in France, with Napoleon´s ideas of freedom, which were passed to SimónBolivar. He swore to free Latin America from Spain right after Napoleon´s coronation as emperor of Europe, all the Iberian Peninsula was controlled by France, by Napoleon as the emperor of the greatest empire of the history. He formed this cause himself, and then he was followed by other important persons too, such as José Antonio Páez, Antonio José de Sucre, and many other. The principal persons inthis essay will be José Antonio Páez, José de San Martín, and Simón Bolívar, because they are the main “libertadores” in the independence of Venezuela and Argentina.
Napoleon indirectly, but greatly, helped the independence of Latin America, his ideals of freedom, the new thoughts that made everybody equal, he removed all the church’s power and gave it to the people, this is the thinking thatlead Simón Bolivar to achieve the independence of Latin America. This is called “renaissance”.
The most important persons for the independence in Latin America were Simón Bolivar, from Venezuela, and José de San Martín, from Argentina. Even when they both wanted the independence and both helped to many countries independences, such as Colombia, Perú, Venezuela, Argentina, Ecuador, etc. Theywanted a different thing, that´s why they worked separately. Simón Bolivar wanted to form the “United States of Latin America”, based on the United States of America, he wanted to free all Latin America, and join them as a country, separated by states. José de San Martín only wanted to free Argentina from the Spanish, but he saw that Argentina could be oppressed again by the Spanish forces in Perú,that’s why he decided to help only Perú, but it was a really necessary help, because Perú was what Spain protected most, it contained thousands of Spanish soldiers.
The social status in Venezuela and Argentina were both the same, and in all Latin America, in the first place were the Spaniards. In the second place were the Creoles, they had European blood, but they were borned in Latin America, theywere not very happy about this, and they joined the independence armies because they didn’t got what they disserved; and the mestizos, they were half Indian and half Spanish. In third place were the Indians, because there were noble Indians too, as well as slaves. And in fourth place were all the other hybrids, such as the Mulatto, half Spanish and half African, or the “Zambos”, half Indian, halfAfrican, any other hybrids but the mestizos. The creoles were supposed to have all the rights of a normal Spaniard, but they were higher in social status, so they also helped the independence, enlisting as soldiers in armies against the Europeans. And in the culture, in Argentina, and Venezuela, as well as in all Latin America, they tried to laugh of Spain, Europe and the Spaniards; they composedcreole songs, to make fun of the Spaniards, and made creole musical instruments, they made the “charango”, which made fun to the guitar, an European musical instrument, the “cajón”, which was a really simple instrument made of the wood boxes used to trade stuff, they were making fun of the sophistication of Europe, and the “cajón” was a really good instrument, nowadays it is used on the world´smusic, as well as the “charango”.
Another similarity is that they both had an act of independence, they made legally their independence, both signed by their main “libertadores” as well, Simón Bolívar signed for Venezuela, and José de San Martín for Argentina.
Another similarity is that Argentina and Venezuela were rich on a natural recourse, and when the monopoly with Spain broke after...
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