The Fall of the First Venezuelan Republic

The cardahena manifesto has entered the pantheon of bolivarian texts along with the letter from jamaica and a few others, as one of the principal state ments of believer's emerging world view. The first part spelled out why he thought the first venezuelan republic had failed, and the second part spelled out what the new granadons should and should not do if they wanted to avoid the fate of unhappy v Venezuela. I believe are hilighted a number of factors, the lack of political unity, the lacked of military resolve. He said that the spanish americans were ill suited for federalism because their centuries under absolutist rule had failed to