Josefa Comejo

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Josefa Venancia de la Encarnación Camejo (Paraguaná peninsula, Venezuela, May 18, 1791 -Ciudad Bolívar, c. 1862), also known as La Camejo and Doña Ignacia, was one of the leaders who fought, like other women of the time, in the war of independence of Venezuela supporting the patriotic cause Josefa Camejo is a female icon of the Independence of Venezuela. Josefa Venancia de la Encarnación Camejo was born on May 18, 1791 in Paraguaná, Falcón state, into a wealthy family. He carried out his initial studies in the city of Coro and then continued them in Caracas until 1811, when he moved to Barinas together with his mother. From Barinas and supported by her uncle Monsignor Mariano de Talavera, Josefa Camejo arranged a group of women for the armed struggle and signed on October 18 the document "Representation that makes the Beautiful Sex to the Government of Barinas", before the invasion that the realistic Guyanese made Barinas.


 


In late 1813, she married Colonel Juan Nepomuceno Briceño Méndez, a union sealed against the heat of independence and put to the test in the distance that war demanded. In 1820 he was in charge of stopping the insurrection of Paraguaná until on May 3, 1821, together with 300 slaves who worked on his farm, he managed to defeat the royalists and give independence to the Province of Coro. Her husband's state of health worsens, so Josefa Camejo returned to Barinas to meet him and his daughter, and accompany him on his deathbed.


 


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