The End of the Realistic Presence in Venezuela: the Monarchy Like Mother Land (1810-1823)

Abstract

The Latin-American historiography, and the Venezuelan especially, they have devoted themselves to the glorification of his independence past (1810-1830). The myth and the heroes are over an exact comprehension to the limits of documentary evidence contrastable and on critical foundations. The historical statement succumbs to an excessively ideological interpretation of History an official speech linked to the preservation of the status quo, in consequence, the past ends up by being a species of “bound lie”. To recover a vision where it was possible to give him content to other actors and pro-realistic testimonies is an urgent need to recover a past on more just and balanced foundations. The present work offers an unpublished testimony of the one who was the principal publicist of the pro-monarchic reason in Venezuela during the unlucky years of the war: Jose Domingo Díaz (1772-1834). In this one “brief”, in the shape of formless, destined to the King Fernando VII, they indicate the reasons of the defeat of the realistic party, and the tragic consequences that there supposed the precipice of the colonial company for his supporters. For many Venezuelans like Jose Domingo Díaz: the mother land was the Monarchy.