Crisis in the metropolis.

Complex European events derived from Napoleonic politics reverberate in the Spain of Carlos IV. His government does not resist the avasllant emperor, to whom he gives his rights over Spain and India. Prisoner Fernando VII in France, is replaced by Napoleon's brother, José Bonaparte. The Spanish people insurge against the new monarch in support of Fernando VII. It is formed in Spain together conservative of the rights of the king despuesto. Particular importance acquires the one of Seville due to its strategic location the Americans accept the legitimacy of said meeting, as well as its administrative acts. The dissolution of the junta of Seville and its replacement by a supreme council of regency, induse them to pressure the captain general Juan de Casas, so that in Caracas a conservative junta of the rights of the ripper king Fernando VII is decreed. In reality they forged the constitution of a government of their own. The captivity of Fernando VII leaves acefala of the crown. With this motive, the Creoles of Venezuela and the Spanish-American colonies appeal to the old freedoms of the Spanish peoples to establish a government that guarantees the exercise of sovereignty and freedom. According to the criollos, because of the abdication, the pact between the king of Spain and the descendants of the discoverers, conquerors and settlers of America is broken. The allegation that unties ties with Spain is the Napoleonic invasion of Iberica Peninsula; but before you come another cause as the arbitrary power exercised by viceroys and captains general, the excesses of the audience integrated by Europeans, the inability to exercise political power and administration beyond the restricted functions of the municipalities, the prohibitions that affect the crops and the development of manufacturing, to the natives of Spain