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Abstract

One of the most controversial events in the history of the independence of Venezuela has been the trial and subsequent execution of General Manuel Piar. This fact has occupied innumerable pages, with multiple interpretations on the prosecution of him. Some consider that it was a fair and legally unquestionable trial; Others affirm that it was an inevitable political decision, but in another sense it is believed that it was an injustice, a blemish in history, and even a murder for which Bolívar is held responsible. In Guyana, the debate assumes a connotation that escapes the mere structural analysis of the trial. It was the scene of the events: Piar's triumph in San Félix and her sentence to death in old Angostura. The controversy has even generated opposing sides: piaristas and Bolivarians. This work aims to expose different visions built from the multidisciplinary research of contemporary Guyanese: a writer, a historian and a lawyer. All united by the passion that Piar's biography and ideas arouse.

Descriptors: Trial, execution, piaristas and Bolivarians.