
Carlos Eduardo Souquett García
Generación del 28
Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela
September 25, 2011, 08:00 hrs local time
© 2011 Carlos Eduardo Souquett García, All Rights Reserved.
GOOGLE TRANSLATION
Central University of Venezuela (UCV) is one of the largest and most important universities in Venezuela. Its headquarters, the City University of Caracas, was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2000. This university, which is the higher education institution Venezuela's oldest, was founded in 1721. To date consists of more than seventy thousand undergraduate and graduate students, six thousand teachers and about eight thousand employees professional, administrative and workers, which are grouped in 9 schools in Caracas, Maracay 2 powers and a core of studies Cagua basic (Aragua State), 5 cores supervised college and 12 stations in different areas of the Republic. In 1928 a group of students known as the Generation of 28 organized a series of events during the "Student Week" in protest against the Gómez dictatorship, which culminated in an attempt to overthrow the April 7 of that year. This heterogeneous group consisted of young political leaders and intellectuals such as Romulo Betancourt, Miguel Otero Silva, Juan Oropeza, Isaac Brown and Rodolfo Quintero, among others. Many of them were imprisoned after the fact, while some went into exile unable to complete their studies. Many of them would in the future, important parts of the political history of Venezuela. Within the University City, there is a section of green space located between the Plaza Deck the Chancellor and the Faculty of Humanities and Education and the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences. This area is known as No Man's Land, where students and other visitors to the university can perform various activities such as study groups, yoga, dance and juggling practices, among others. In this area there is a bronze sculpture of the famous Spanish sculptor Ernesto Maragall to commemorate all that generation of young people who fought for the freedom of their country from tyranny that lasted 27 years. This is history ...
Lat: 10° 29' 29.96" N
Long: 67° 54' 25.42" W
Elevation: 869
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