Venezuela has had a rich, complex, and violent history of any other Latin American country during its colonization. In this class, we have focused primarily in Mexico, Ecuador, Brazil and Peru from pre-colonial civilization to their independence, but due to the short amount of time, there cannot be a coverage of all the Latin American countries such as Puerto Rico or Guatemala. I had found lately when we delved into independences of the Latin American countries; Venezuela stood out to me due to the little-to-no knowledge of what sort of reign it had before and during colonization, and as we know, Venezuela was one of the first states to be independent. So that rose the question about how significant Venezuela is to Latin American history. As
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When the Spaniards discovered gold specifically in the land of the Teques, Guaicaipuro’s tribe, it caused an alarm for him, but it wasn’t until the Spanish began to exploit the mines that Guaicaipuro began to hatch confrontations. He, along with other caciques began attacking the settlers and successfully forcing the Spaniards out. However, the governor of Venezuela sent out Juan Rodríguez Suárez to be the “diplomat” and work over the confrontations between them, but believing that everything was resolved Suárez left behind some workers and returned to the city of Valencia. It was not as smooth as Suárez anticipated; Guaicaipuro ambushed the workers in the mines, killing all of them and then went for Suárez himself and successfully executed him[AGUADO][VENEZUELA TUYA]. This caused Guaicaipuro to be revered as a hero and a central figure to the uprising within the vicinity of the Carácas Valley. Years later, 1562 to be exact, an expeditionary led by Luis Narváez, another conquistador, attempted to help the counterattack against the indigenous, forced Narváez to retreat the area and not temporarily either, the area was untouched by the Spanish for years. Like all, true tales, they must come to an end, and that is what happened to Guaicaipuro. Five years later the city of Santíago de León de Caracas was founded; the new town was located in the Carácas Valley where that was Guaicaipuro’s domain. The Spanish worried about possible attacks from the cacique and his followers but Diego de Losada, founder of Carácas, believed it was futile to wait and be attacked first, so he took the initiative and ordered the mayor to undertake Guaicaipuro’s capture so that he may lead them
When the Spaniards discovered gold specifically in the land of the Teques, Guaicaipuro’s tribe, it caused an alarm for him, but it wasn’t until the Spanish began to exploit the mines that Guaicaipuro began to hatch confrontations. He, along with other caciques began attacking the settlers and successfully forcing the Spaniards out. However, the governor of Venezuela sent out Juan Rodríguez Suárez to be the “diplomat” and work over the confrontations between them, but believing that everything was resolved Suárez left behind some workers and returned to the city of Valencia. It was not as smooth as Suárez anticipated; Guaicaipuro ambushed the workers in the mines, killing all of them and then went for Suárez himself and successfully executed him[AGUADO][VENEZUELA TUYA]. This caused Guaicaipuro to be revered as a hero and a central figure to the uprising within the vicinity of the Carácas Valley. Years later, 1562 to be exact, an expeditionary led by Luis Narváez, another conquistador, attempted to help the counterattack against the indigenous, forced Narváez to retreat the area and not temporarily either, the area was untouched by the Spanish for years. Like all, true tales, they must come to an end, and that is what happened to Guaicaipuro. Five years later the city of Santíago de León de Caracas was founded; the new town was located in the Carácas Valley where that was Guaicaipuro’s domain. The Spanish worried about possible attacks from the cacique and his followers but Diego de Losada, founder of Carácas, believed it was futile to wait and be attacked first, so he took the initiative and ordered the mayor to undertake Guaicaipuro’s capture so that he may lead them