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Exploring the Trinidad-Venezuela connection Part 3: VACAS Y PRESIDENTES

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Sunday, October 13, 2013
Antonio Guzman Blanco (1829-99), the autocratic Venezuelan president in the late 1800s whose persecution of political rivals drove thousands of his people to seek asylum in Trinidad.

In the last two episodes of Back in Times we looked at how Trinidad played a pivotal role in the Venezuelan War of Independence even after the island severed ties with Spain as it became a British


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