The Spanish Domination in "El triunfo de la libertad sobre el despotismo" (1817) over the Venezuelan Juan Germán Roscio

Abstract

The work of the Venezuelan, Juan Germán Roscio, hardly studied so far, includes the thought existing at the beginning of emancipation and analysis of the fundamental problems that impeded the full freedom of the countries of the Americas of Spanish domination. El triunfo de la libertad sobre el despotismo concentrated their ideology in the study of scripture to establish the sovereignty of the people and rejecting the divine power of the monarchs, as well as, ultimately, the support of the regicide as a right of peoples to tyrannical and despotic governments. Roscio records the characteristics of the Spanish domination, embodied in the absolutism of the real power that legitimizes the Church with the monopoly and exclusivity of the interpretation of sacred texts.