Venezuel

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: APPENDIX A. Retort on the Federal territory of Yuruary, Guayana, and Venezuela, by General Victor Barret de Nazaris, Minister of War and Marine, of the Government of Venezuela: ? Citizen-General, Constitutional President of the United States of Venezuela. Sir, ?The mission which you had the honour to...
More Description

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: APPENDIX A. Retort on the Federal territory of Yuruary, Guayana, and Venezuela, by General Victor Barret de Nazaris, Minister of War and Marine, of the Government of Venezuela: ? Citizen-General, Constitutional President of the United States of Venezuela. Sir, ?The mission which you had the honour to confide to my loyalty and my discretion has been fulfilled with all necessary seriousness, and with results which I believe satisfactory to the stability of the national peace, and the security of the multiplied and well-understood interests of Guayana and the Federal territory of Yuruary. While resident in the territory I did no more than fulfil the orders of your Government, attending with due care to your patriotic sentiments and your sincere wishes for the happiness and greatness of the country. My brief communications will already have informed you, as well as the Executive, of my ideas as to the condition and needs of those sections, called by Providence to great destinies in the near future. But notwithstanding these brief communications, I have considered it well, thus fully complying with my duty, to the end, to put before you in this report a compactresult of my observations, as well as the useful reforms which, according to my judgment, I deem are indispensable to the introducing of a definitive organization of the Federal territory of Yuruary, so that it may thereby fully correspond to the true ends of its creation, and reach that transcendental prosperity, in favour of which great and positive hopes will have to be developed by fruitful acts; not only for this mighty region of the Orinoco, but also for the whole of the Republic of Venezuela. From the foregoing I hope the Government will be able to form a correct opinion of the true political si...