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No. 68 (2026)
El Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, en medio del profundo dolor que hoy nos embarga, debido a los sucesos ocurridos en el país el pasado 24 de junio, presenta el N° 68 de la Revista Montalbán. En su interior el lector encontrará un Misceláneo que revisa diferentes tópicos relacionados con, determinados, temas que incluyen aspectos religiosos, científicos, económicos, migratorios, políticos, cultura popular y ciencias de la información. Este ejemplar cuenta con un importante número de nuevas firmas: José Manuel Gómez González, SJ, Pedro Adolfo Morales Vera, Álvaro García-Castro, Andrés Felipe Guevara Bazurco y Renny Morales Caro, a quienes le damos una cálida bienvenida, así como la de asiduos colaboradores encabezada por Andrés Cañizález , Pedro Trigo, SJ, Tomás Guanipa y Edgar Figuera-Bottini.
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No. 67 (2026)
The Institute of Historical Research presents issue No. 67 of Montalbán journal. Inside, readers will find a central dossier based on the presentations given at the second Seminar on Ethnohistory, held at Andrés Bello Catholic University on 17, 18 and 19 June 2025. A dozen prominent researchers gathered to review the thinking of physician and anthropologist Rafael Requena, whose archive is housed at the aforementioned institute, as well as to analyse ethnohistory studies in Venezuela and the theoretical and methodological problems involved in approaching them. In the Communications section, we find contributions from Father Carlos Rodríguez Souquet, who presents the astronomical side of the Jesuit priest Alejandro Mas y Rubí, a native of Zulia state, and Edgar Figuera-Bottini, a doctoral student in history who is conducting research on Lisandro Alvarado and the ethnography of customs. In the Miscellaneous section, Dr Miguel Gómez Muci analyses the administration of the Comptroller General of the Republic, José Muci-Abraham, between 1974 and 1976. To conclude, we find reviews of the books Más de Cien años de silencio (More than a Hundred Years of Silence) by León Hernández and Guerra Fría Global: El pensamiento militar chileno y venezolano y venezolano (1960-1970) (Global Cold War: Chilean and Venezuelan Military Thought (1960-1970)) by Froilán Ramos Rodríguez.
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No. 66 (2025)
Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas presents the 66th issue of the journal Montalbán. Inside, the reader will find the prestigious contributions of Dr. Carlos Page, who offers a study on the persecutions against the Society of Jesus in the Americas during the 16th and 17th centuries; Dr. Blanca de Lima, who analyzes the transition from trade to industry in the city of Coro through the contributions of Manasés and Elías Capriles Ricardo; and the doctoral student Tomás González, who examines the celebrated Bishop Mariano Martí in his dual role as civilizer and evangelizer.
This issue also features a central dossier compiling three papers selected from those presented by distinguished researchers—namely, Dr. Esther Mobilia, History Ph.D. candidate Jessica Guillén, and Father Dr. Carlos Rodríguez Souquet—during the History Conference held last May 2025, coordinated by the Institute of Historical Research.
To conclude, the volume includes two book reviews, authored by History Ph.D. candidate Marianao Vallenilla and Dr. Ricardo Ciliberto.
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No. 65 (2025)
Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas presents issue No. 65 of the journal Montalbán. This edition features a central dossier consisting of selected papers presented by renowned researchers, both national and international, during the International History Conference held last November 2024, in commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the victories at Ayacucho. Additionally, it includes two articles about controversial figures from 19th-century Venezuela and a review.
Inside, readers will find contributions from Drs. Justo Cuño Bonito, Roger Pita Pico, Daniel Emilio Rojas Castro, Fernando Falcón, Luis Daniel Perrone, and Rev. Carlos Rodríguez Souquet, who make up the central dossier on Ayacucho. In the Communications section, Dr. Migdalia Lezama presents an article on writer and journalist Juan Vicente González and his role in historiography; Magister Emilio Berrizbetia writes about Andrés Aurelio Level de Goda and his debates relating to the controversy surrounding independence; and Dr. Manuel Donís reviews the historical fiction novel Linea de Fuego by writer Arturo Pérez Reverte.
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No. 64 (2024)
The Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas presents the 64th issue of the journal Montalbán.
This issue is the result of the research presented at the International History Conference held last May of this year, as a well-deserved tribute to RP. José del Rey Fajardo, SJ. Researchers, collaborators and disciples make up the signatures highlighted in this issue. Inside, the reader will find seven (7) articles particularly related to the Society of Jesus and the figure of Father del Rey, authored by Doctors Antonio Astorgano Abajo, Alberto Gómez Gutiérrez, Carlos Page, Francisco Javier Pérez, Agustín Moreno Molina, Dr. Edda Samudio and Fr. Carlos Rodríguez Souquet; and two (2) investigations related to the Catholic Church and religion in Venezuela, carried out by RP. Jesús María Aguirre, SJ and Fray José Juan de Paz, OP. Two reviews of the books: Venezuela y el ejercicio de la soberanía sobre los espacios marítimos (1520-2022) by Dr. Manuel Donís; and La quiebra del modelo político- Auge y decadencia de los partidos 1958-1998, by Dr. Gustavo Velásquez, written by Lieutenant Commander Diego Corado Granadillo and Attorney María Teresa Sosa, respectively. Two obituary notes In Memoriam on the Father of the King, close this large number of articles. The first was written by Dr. Emilio Urbina and the second by Father Carlos Rodríguez Souquet. -
No. 63 (2024)
Issue No. 63 of Montalbán Journal is the first volume published after the passing of its founder and Director, Rev. Father José del Rey Fajardo, S.J. Nevertheless, before his departure, he prepared and submitted a final article entitled The Jesuits and Their Roots, with which we open this issue.
Rev. Father Pedro Trigo reflects on the country’s reality and ways to approach it. Meanwhile, Father Carlos Rodríguez Souquet analyzes two documentary memoirs about the Society of Jesus. Next, Professor Mariano Nava introduces us to the Venezuelan Enlightenment and the colonial Paideia in the 18th century, while Professor Daniel Lahoud discusses the controversy surrounding the debate on the Venezuelan Civil Code of 1868.
Professor Luis Perrone takes us to eastern Venezuela by studying the relationship between lawyer José Grau and Intendant José Francisco Bermúdez in the Orinoco Department of the “Gran Colombia.”
Finally, in the Essays section, Professor Gracia Salazar, a new contributor, reviews the history of the United Fruit Company through the lens of the writer Gabriel García Márquez and his works One Hundred Years of Solitude and Leaf Storm. The issue closes masterfully with a review by Emilio Ruíz Berrisbeitia of historian Reinaldo Rojas’s book Cumaná in the Formation of the Nation-State.
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No. 62 (2023)
The Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas has the participation of prestigious researchers who have made it possible to put online the 62nd issue of the Revista MONTALBÁN. This Miscélaneo recreates relevant topics such as: the influence of the Cadiz Constitution on Modern constitutionalism and its parallelism with the Venezuelan Constituent process, by Doctor Allan Brewer Carías; a study on Abbé Vicente Requeno, an expelled Jesuit of Aragonese origin who restored the Greco-Latin arts and was a member of the Spanish Universalist School, by Doctor Antonio Astorgano Abajo; some reflections on the narrative dimension of Alasdair Mancintyre, by Dr. Emilio Urbina Mendoza; a study on the Archdeacon Antonio José Sucre and the polemic generated in his time against the Logias and the Grafias, by Dr. Daniel Lahoud; a study on the ''presence of the French work The Year 2440, in the weekly Correo del Orinoco, by Dr. Fernando Falcón; an analysis on Pope Francis and his communicative profile, by the R. P. Jes''us María Aguirre, by Dr. Fernando Falcón; an analysis on Pope Francis and his communicative profile, by the R. P. Jes''us María Aguirre, by Dr. Antonio Astorgano Abajo. Jes''us María Aguirre, s.j.; and a reflective essay on the theme of reconciliation, by R.P. Francisco Javier Duplá, s.j..
Finally, there are four recently published book reviews, presented by Lic. Iván Brito and Doctors Asdrúbal Aguiar and Tomás Straka.
