Causes and Faces of the Venezuelan Revolution By Michael ghiorsi
French and American Revolutions, along with a revolt in Peru, inspire educated liberals to take action.
Caracas Junta forms, and people reject it almost immediately.
Rousseau's Social Contract is printed in Vernacular for the first time.
Bolívar reads this, realizes how badly the junta strays from these ideas.
Simón Bolívar - skilled and wealthy Venezuelan Creole general who originally helped set up the Caracas Junta, but soon turned against it and helped the revolution
Helped arrest Francisco de Miranda
Liberated the nation again, but was also exiled again for rejecting their constitution and becoming dictator
In 1821, Bolívar finally rid the nation of Royalist rule
Francisco de Miranda- another patriot of the Venezuelan Revolution, helped Bolívar create the Sociedad Patriótica in order to gain enough support to declare independence.