Politican Thinking as seen in 19TH century newspaper

Abstract

The beginnings of Venezuelan press were inevitably linked to national political events. This medium of expression and information has become the most expeditious vehicle to convey the modernist thought. The ideas of the Enlightenment and the Encyclopedia have had positive impact positive on the Spanish American Colonies generating numerous independence movements that will shape a new political, economic, social and cultural order, thus becoming independent republics. Ideas of liberty, fraternity, equality, sovereignty, citizenship, liberalism, constitutional order, federalism, confederation, positivism,and nationalism have shaped during the Venezuelan nineteenth century a com-plex political-ideological network that gives birth to a peculiar way of thinking.