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Well everybody is sick today so I don’t think I’ll have to much to write about unless you want me to describe how they’re throwing up and such. Lets try a little more history about Colombia shall we.” Since the beginning of the periods of conquest and colonization, there were several rebel movements under Spanish rule, most of them were either crushed or remained too weak to change the overall situation. The last one which sought outright independence from Spain sprang up around 1810, following the independence of St. Domingue (present-day Haiti) in 1804, which provided a non negligible degree of support to the eventual leaders of the revolt: Simon Bolivar and Francisco de Paula Santander. A movement initiated by Antonio Nariño, who opposed Spanish centralism and led the opposition against the viceroyalty, led to the independence of Cartagena in November 1811, and the formation of two independent governments which fought a civil war_ a period known as La Patria Boba. The fowling year Nariño proclaimed the United Provinces of New Granada, headed by Camilo Torres Tenorio. Despite the successes of the rebellion, the emergence of two distinct ideological currents among the liberators (federalism and centralism) gave rise to an internal clash which contributed to the reconquest of territory by the Spanish. The viceroyalty was restored under the command of Juan de Samano, whose regime punished those who participated in the uprisings. The retribution stoked renewed rebellion, which, combined with a weakened Spain, made possible a successful rebellion led by Venezuelan-born Simon Bolivar, who finally proclaimed independence in 1819. The pro-Spanish resistance was finally defeated in 1822 in the present territory of Colombia and in 1823 in Venezuela”. Ok that’s it for today I’m so bored I might just start scratching Jeff’s leg. I know some of you are really interested in this but Jeff had enough trouble with US history, I’m sure we’ll continue this another time when there’ nothing to do. But we do want to thank Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia for all this Notice the Quotes I’m out of here Ciao