The most grievous error committed by Venezuela in making her start on the political stage was, as none can deny, her fatal adoption of the system of … - Simón Bolívar

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The most grievous error committed by Venezuela in making her start on the political stage was, as none can deny, her fatal adoption of the system of tolerance—a system long condemned as weak and inadequate by every man of common sense, yet tenaciously maintained with an unparalleled blindness to the very end.