Venezuela during World War I

During World War I, Venezuela maintained a position of neutrality in the four years of the conflict during the dictatorship of Juan Vicente Gómez. Por its position, his government was pressured and threatened by the conflict belligerants, and Gómez was accused of having pro-German sympathies. Gómez used the position of Victorino Márquez Bustillos as provisional president, in practice a "prime minister", to refuse to discuss changing his stance.[1][2]

Juan Vicente Gómez, dictator of Venezuela during World War I. Gómez maintained a position of neutrality during the conflict.

Despite the neutrality of gomecismo during the conflict, there were Venezuelans that fought in World War I. While the majority of them served in the French Foreign Legion, there were exceptions that enlisted in the Ottoman or German armies. Several of them were condecorated for their service.[3]

See also

References
  1. "Gómez, Juan Vicente". Diccionario de Historia de Venezuela. Biblioteca de la Fundación Empresas Polar. Retrieved 2021-11-14.
  2. "Gómez, Juan Vicente, gobierno de". Diccionario de Historia de Venezuela. Biblioteca de la Fundación Empresas Polar. Retrieved 2021-11-14.
  3. Pérez Jurado 1999, pp. 7–8.

Bibliography
  • Pérez Jurado, Carlos (1999). Muerto por Francia (in Spanish). Caracas: Talleres de Italgráfica. OCLC 951606690.
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