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A PAN-NATIONAL EXHIBITION of some 250 works of art created in the Spanish viceroyalties of New Spain (which today comprises Mexico and the countries of Central America) and Peru (now the nations of Ecuador, Uruguay, Paraguay, Venezuela, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, and Peru), and in the Portuguese colony of Brazil has been drawn from public and private collections throughout the Americas and in Europe.
The junta of Seville sent Goyeneche as their envoy to the viceroyalties of Rio de la Plata and Peru to secure the submission of the colonial administration to its authority.
In 1807 Bolivar returned to Caracas to take charge of the revolutionary forces, and by 1822, his military genius and tenacity had succeeded in expelling Spanish influence from most of northern South America, uniting Venezuela, the old viceroyalties of New Granada (present-day Colombia), and the presidency of Quito (today Ecuador) into the republic of Gran Colombia.
 
 
 
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