Statement of the Embassy of Venezuela in Recognition of Simon Bolivar’s Letter

On September 6, 2015, the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in the Islamic Republic of Iran, celebrated the 200th Anniversary of the letter written by the Liberator Simon Bolivar in response to a correspondence sent by Henry Cullen, a British-born Jamaican merchant, AVA Diplomatic reports.

 In it, the Liberator calls upon to the patriotic American natives not to abandon the struggle for independence and expresses his rejection to the Spanish Crown which in disobedience of the Social Contract that it had committed to, favored by discriminatory laws and mandates only to the Spanish natives in all social, political and economic aspects of the territory, leaving the not-born in Spain, helpless and devoid of any social security.

The document itself, thanks to its high anti-imperialist, anti-colonialist, unionist and integrationist content, has today, 200 years later, the same validity as it did on September 6th, 1815. For this reason, with special pride to share with the brotherly nation of Iran the emancipatory and Latin-Americanistic thought of the Liberator Simon Bolivar, the Embassy of Venezuela, accompanied by heads of missions and representatives of Latin American embassies accredited in Tehran, as well as social movements and organizations that defend the sovereignty of the peoples in resistance, holds a patriotic, anti-imperialist and symbolic ceremony which reaffirms the self-determination of nations and calls for the integration and unity of our peoples.

“More than anyone, I desire to see America fashioned into the greatest nation in the world, greatest not so much by virtue of her area and wealth as by her freedom and glory.”

Simon Bolivar, The Liberator Jamaica Letter September 6th, 1815