Order of the Liberator
The Order of the Liberator was the highest distinction of Venezuela and was appointed for services to the country, outstanding merit and benefits made to the community. For Venezuelans the order ranks first in the order of precedence from other orders, national and foreign.
Order of the Liberator | |
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Grand Collar of the Order of the Liberator Simón Bolívar | |
Awarded by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela | |
Type | Order |
Status | Awarded until 2010 |
Grades | Grand Collar Grand Cordon Grand Officer Commander Officer Knight |
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The President of Venezuela is the Chief of the Order and has the faculty of appointing. By right, he wears the Collar of the Order.
The order was created by Antonio Guzmán Blanco on September 14, 1880, and reformed in 1922 under the presidential term of Juan Vicente Gómez, the Order has as precedent the Medal of Distinction with the bust of the Liberator created on March 11, 1854 under the presidency of José Gregorio Monagas and before that, the Order of the Liberators created by Simón Bolívar in 1813.
In 2010, the National Assembly of Venezuela decided to officially abolish the distinction and replace it with the newly created Order of the Liberators of Venezuela - itself a revival of the very same medal created by no less than Simón Bolívar in 1813[1] mandated to honor participants of the Admirable Campaign. The new order, unlike its predecessor, has 3 classes, in ascending order:
- Arrow of the Liberators
- Lance of the Liberators
- Sword of the Liberators
Just as the order that came before it, the President is the Order's Grand Master and has full authority over appointments to the Order. He or she wears the collar of the Sword of the Liberators class of the order.
Grades
- Collar
- First Class (Grand Cordon)
- Second Class (Grand Officer)
- Third Class (Commander)
- Fourth Class (Officer)
- Fifth Class (Knight)
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Recipients
First Class (Grand Cordons)
- Albert I of Belgium
- Charles de Gaulle
- Haile Selassie I
- Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada
- Porfirio Díaz
- Prince Henry of Prussia (1862–1929)
- Kalākaua
- Princess Margriet of the Netherlands
- Queen Sofía of Spain
- Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
- Néstor Kirchner
- Michelle Bachelet
- Mohammad Khatami
- Fidel Castro
- Vladimir Putin
- Rafael Correa
- Pieter van Vollenhoven
- Xi Jinping
- Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Second Class (Grand Officers)
Third Class (Commanders)
Collars
- Bashar al-Assad
- Juan Carlos I of Spain (08/09/1977)[2]
- Beatrix of the Netherlands
- Andrew Bertie
- Raúl Castro
- Rafael Correa[3]
- RADM John H. Dayton, USN (ret)
- Muammar Gaddafi
- RADM Yates Stirling, Jr. USN
Other recipients
- Pedro Camejo
- Simón Díaz
- Domingo Esguerra Plata
- Florizel Glasspole
- William Halsey Jr.
- Harry C. Ingles
- Alfredo Jahn
- Alberto João Jardim
- Golda Meir
- Isaac J Pardo
- John J. Pershing
- Otto Reich
- Lloyd Erskine Sandiford
- Wilhelm Sievers
- Nayef bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
- Sultan bin Abdulaziz
- Josip Broz Tito
- Alexander Yakovlev (Russian politician)
- Mahmoud Abbas
References
- Exposición de motivos ley "Orden Libertadores y Libertadoras de Venezuela" National Assembly (Venezuela) (in Spanish)
- El Rey, en la conmemoración del bicentenario de la integración venezolana Archived 2014-04-07 at the Wayback Machine
- "(VIDEO) Presidente de Ecuador condecorado con el "Collar de la Orden del Libertador"" (in Spanish). es:Aporrea (Venezolana de Televisión). 12 October 2007. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
See also
- Venezuelan honours system