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"Venezuela was born of
audacity, shaped by peoples and cultures intertwined. From Spain we
inherited a language, a culture, and a faith that merged with ancestral
Indigenous and African roots."
"In 1811, we wrote the first
constitution in the Spanish-speaking world, one of the earliest republican
constitutions on Earth, affirming the radical idea that every human being
carries a sovereign dignity. This constitution enshrined citizenship,
individual rights, religious liberty, and separation of powers."
"Our ancestors carried liberty on their backs. They crossed an entire
continent, from the banks of the Orinoco to the heights of the Potosí, to
help give rise to societies of free and equal citizens, out of the
conviction that freedom is never whole unless it is shared.
From the beginning, we believed something simple
and immense: that all human beings are born to be free. That conviction
became our national soul."
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