Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Maganar matsalolin Spain a 1808 a cikin Yaƙe-yaƙe na Napoleon da sauri ya isa Caracas, amma a ranar 19 ga Afrilu 1810 ne kawai "cabildo" (majalisa ta gari) ta yanke shawarar bin misalin da lardunan Spain suka kafa shekaru biyu da suka gabata. A ranar 5 ga Yuli, 1811, bakwai daga cikin larduna goma na Kyaftin Janar na Venezuela sun ayyana 'yancin kansu a cikin Yarjejeniyar Independence ta Venezuela. An rasa Jamhuriyar Venezuela ta Farko a 1812 bayan girgizar kasa ta Caracas da Yaƙin La Victoria (1812). Simón Bolívar ya jagoranci "Kamfen mai ban sha'awa" don dawo da Venezuela, yana kafa Jamhuriyar Venezuela ta biyu a 1813; amma wannan ma bai daɗe ba, yana faɗuwa zuwa haɗuwa da tashin hankali na gida da kuma sake dawo da mulkin mallaka na Spain
Ka yi haƙuri. Sai kawai a matsayin wani ɓangare na yakin Bolívar don 'yantar da New Granada a 1819<unk>20 Venezuela ta sami' yancin kai na dindindin daga Spain (da farko a matsayin wani ɓangare na Gran Colombia).