Summary of the history of Venezuela

In Resumen de la historia de Venezuela Andrés Bello makes a brief but intense account of the colonial history of that country. In which he analyzes the Venezuelan conquest and politics with a clarity that today surprises.
The work presents the contrast between culture, religion and the European population and the indigenous people. It also proposes an analysis of both the conquest and national policy.
The Summary of the History of Venezuela is part of The Manual Calendar and Universal Guide of Outsiders in Venezuela for the year 1810.
Venezuelan thinker and writer, Andrés Bello (1781-1865) was one of the most important intellectuals of nineteenth-century America. He played a key role in the intellectual formation of Simón Bolívar and also in the revolutionary processes of independence from the Spanish Empire.
As a teacher and great scholar, Andrés Bello was the teacher of Simón Bolívar, the Liberator. At that time he was part of the group of men who initiated and promoted the independence movements in Venezuela. Bello tried to rationalize and build with this Summary of the history of Venezuela a manual to understand the excesses of the Spanish government.