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The spirit of Carabobo will overcome the stench of Monroe. The Twenty-Fifth Newsletter (2021)

Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on June 24, 2021 by Vijay Prashad (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research) | (Posted Jun 25, 2021)

Two hundred years ago, on 24 June 1821, the forces of Simón Bolívar trounced the Spanish royalists at the Battle of Carabobo, a few hundred kilometres west of Caracas, Venezuela.