Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced that he will send letters to the presidents of Ecuador, Panama, and Venezuela, as well as to their opposition parties and grassroots social organizations, in an effort to reestablish the Gran Colombia. This vast republic, created by Simón Bolívar during the war of independence from Spain, existed from 1819 to 1831.
“I want to confess to you that this president wants us to revive Gran Colombia. And I even dare—knowing that we are not yet a majority, but we could be—to write letters to the presidents of Ecuador, Venezuela, and Panama, to their opposition parties, to their indigenous organizations, to their youth … so that we can meet again and rebuild the great Gran Colombia confederation. I believe this is a dream that should not be forgotten, one that did not die with [Simón] Bolívar,” said the president at a mass event this Friday, April 25.
He also emphasized that Bolívar “was absolutely right” to found the republic and that those who advocated for its disintegration “and those who destroyed that dream with weapons” were “wrong.” “If Gran Colombia existed today under the power of its people, the Caribbean would be the mare nostrum, as the Romans said—a hotbed of culture,” he added.
To kick off his plan, Petro proposed holding an intercultural meeting on the 500th anniversary of the founding of Santa Marta, the city where national hero Simón Bolívar died.
“There in Santa Marta, we can shout with a Bolivarian and libertarian voice that the dream of Gran Colombia is reborn, and we will not let it die,” he concluded.
Gran Colombia was a republic composed of the provinces of New Granada (present-day Colombia and Panama), Venezuela, and Quito (present-day Ecuador). The capital and seat of government were in Bogotá, while provinces retained local authorities accountable to the central government.
Technically Gran Colombia was meant to include all former Spanish colonies. But its likely only going to include Venezuela and Colombia and thats a good start. Sadly Peru-Bolivia went nowhere.
He can’t keep being this based
Let him cook
Here’s to the cool timeline where a unified global south bullies Europe and the US economically in a similar fashion to China.
Faking a Sino-URSAL split to fool the US into
financingfriendshoring their development.
AES in Africa and Gran Colombia in South America would be sick
Cold War 2:
Soviet Union 2, 3, and 4:
HOI4 mod ass headline
but also he’ll yeah
Panamanians still hate Colombia for treating it as a proto-colony in the 1800s, it’s not gonna happen lmao.
Plus, I don’t think the hyper-dollarized, full of US worshipping bourgeois Ecuador would want to be a part of anything with Venezuela.
he will send letters to the presidents of Ecuador, Panama, and Venezuela, as well as to their opposition parties
There’s only one man who can get every nation to set aside their differences and become the leader of a unified Gran Colombia
There’s only one man who can get every nation to set aside their differences and become the leader of a unified Gran
He wants to get Luisa Gonzalez to pivot her fraudulent election loss into a Gran Colombian revolution with Venezuelan support. Based Petro doing permanent revolution.
Maduro might be down though…
Looks like Central America isn’t the only one considering bringing back an old confederacy. This would solve the pesky issue that is Panama refusing to integrate to Central America if it were to happen.
Why though 🤔
Same reason as when Yugoslavia and Bulgaria wanted to unify under a socialist government.
Except under a socdem government with some of the most reactionary armies combined, no chance of this happening
Historically, the reason Gran Columbia existed for the brief period it did was because the member nations saw it as a way to ensure their continued independence against Spain. In the modern context, the recreation of Gran Columbia could be seen as a way to guarantee the region’s independence from American influence now and Chinese influence in the future.
Also, Hugo Chavez actually proposed the reunification of Gran Colombia in 2008.
As always, Chavez was ahead of the curve
