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Bolívar spoke with great eloquence and precision to the Congress of Angostura. It was there that he described the Spanish American revolution as he saw it:
A republican government, that is what Venezuela had, has and should have. Its principles should be the sovereignty of the people, division of powers, civil liberty, prohibition of slavery and the abolition of monarchy and privileges. We need equality to recast, so to speak, into a single whole, the classes of men, political opinions and public custom.1
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Lynch, J. (2001). Simón Bolívar and the Age of Revolution. In: Latin America between Colony and Nation. Studies of the Americas. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230511729_7
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