Are we doomed to start over when we think we have finished? An Ourobouros (the snake that eats its tail) elemental that would be the worst of disasters.

The birth of Venezuela was a hellish process. It should have been cause for joy and national emotion, but it was a transit of pain and death. The War of Independence (1811-1824) was one of the bloodiest and most destructive chapters in the entire history of America. There was no family in the country that did not lose several of their children as a military casualty or killed or killed in fires or executed by a brutal enemy, and this happened with all social classes, although proportionally it was more notable in the upper classes.

The country lost close to 40% of its males, and practically all of its livestock, its agriculture, and its means of communication. It is not an exaggeration to say that today, two centuries after that fierce weather, it has not yet fully recovered.
What was the cause of so much violence, of so much destruction?
The lack of education, which deprived of side and side. The men who initiated the independence movement of 1810 were not exactly revolutionaries in the sense that is given today to that word. In 1798, they had rejected with determination the independence and revolutionary attempt, to the French, of Gual and Spain. And in 1806 they were openly anti-revolutionary when the attempted invasion of Francisco de Miranda. Even in 1808, when it was already a matter of fighting against the French invader, they gave clear manifestations of Spanishness, of not wanting Independence at all.

But in 1810 and especially in 1811 they embarked on a path that led to a social revolution. The intention of the Mantuan was to seek direct access to international markets, but a minority of fiery youth, Bolivar, Rivas, etc., decided to take everything much further and imitate the American and French revolutionaries in their anti-monarchic zeal. And they faced the stupidity of the Spanish authorities of that time, who cornered the Creoles until leaving them no other way out than the War of Independence.

On April 19, 1810, although it was considered by many the beginning of the independence process, it was actually a reaction against the rise to the Spanish throne of José Bonaparte, "Pepe Botella", the Emperor's brother. The republican minority of the Mantuan, faced with the vacuum of power that the defenestration of the Bourbon kings meant, saw an opportunity to create a republic, while the majority of them thought only of getting rid of the rigid controls that prevented them from trading directly with the Englishmen, the Dutch, the Danes, and other peoples, and there headed for their ships, which they did not know yet so fragile.

But the minority that, thanks to the illustration, did want to go far beyond the simple economic Independence, and dreamed of a political and social revolution, ended up being imposed. That homeland that was born then, that first Republic, saw the light condemned to death.

Soon came the time of the Boves and other violent, who had a lot of resentful, and whose ancestry has existed in Venezuela, and still exists, to the extent that he returned to the government of the Republic in 1999. That passion, that lack of maturity, that tendency to Creole "viveza", that lack of scruples, that primitivism that is demonstrated with the absolute lack of sense of duty, was what caused the terrible fire that was the War of Independence of Venezuela.

And that is what has caused the disaster that we live today. Chavez was a Boves, Maduro is an Antoñanzas or a Zuazola, a Yanez or a Cervériz. And Chavismo, with its devotion to corruption and to the Chinese and the Cubans, is the old realism, the old born Goths. In the middle of the terrible War of Independence, Bolívar, under the beneficial influence of Antonio José de Sucre, understood that everything was going wrong and he tried to amend it.

That is how the Treaty for the Regularization of War was reached, which is one of the most noble instruments that humankind has produced in the field of human rights. Bolivar and Sucre left the war of barbarians behind, but the barbarian caudillos were too powerful and too accustomed to the pleasure of command.

It would seem today that the republic, from 1830 to 1999, was just a long hiatus of indecision, but we have returned to the time of the barbarians. Can we recover from this relapse? Hopefully, and I hope that the eternal return is not true. If not, the future is too black, even if it is red.

A change is not possible without a change of mentality diametrically opposed to the mentality of the current Venezuelan. If you do not change your attitude, we'll go back to take off you to put myself in and the saddest thing is that another madman comes who does not want to leave power like Chávez and his criminal gang.As it is a problem of education, it will take us.