Order of the Liberator
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The President of Venezuela is the Chief of the Order and has the faculty of appointing. By right, he wears the Collar of the Order.
The order was created by Antonio Guzmán Blanco on September 14, 1880, and reformed in 1922 under the presidential term of Juan Vicente Gómez, the Order has as precedent the Medal of Distinction with the bust of the Liberator created on March 11, 1854 under the presidency of José Gregorio Monagas and before that, the Order of the Liberators created by Simón Bolívar in 1813.
In 2010, the National Assembly of Venezuela decided to officially abolish the order and replace it with the Order of the Liberators of Venezuela.[1]
Grades
- Collar
- First Class (Grand Cordon)
- Second Class (Grand Officer)
- Third Class (Commander)
- Fourth Class (Officer)
- Fifth Class (Knight)
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Grand Cross set of the Order.
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Grand Cross badge (obverse).
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Grand Cross star.
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Grand Cross badge (reverse).
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Grand Cross of the Order.
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Illustration of the Knights Class.
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Grand Collar of the Order.
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Knights Cross of the Order.
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Grand Cross breast star.
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Simón Bolívar, the Orders namesake.
Recipients
Collars
- Template:Flagicon Mahathir Mohamad[2]
- Template:Flagicon Juan Carlos I of Spain[3]
- Template:Flagicon Rafael Correa[4]
- Template:Flagicon Suharto[5]
- Template:Flagicon Mahmoud Ahmadinejad[6]
- Template:Flagicon Cheddi Jagan (1993)[7]
- Template:Flagicon Alexander Lukashenko (2007)[8]
- Template:Flagicon Muhammad Yunus[9]
- Template:Flagicon Dmitry Medvedev (2008)[10]
- Template:Flagicon Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (2008)[11]
- Template:Flagicon Michelle Bachelet (2009)[12]
- Template:Country data Ba'athist SyriaScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Bashar al-Assad (2010)[13]
- Template:Flagicon Xi Jinping (2014)[14]
Officer
Unclear
- Karl Schädler (1894)[15]
Abolishment and replacement
In 2010, the National Assembly of Venezuela decided to officially abolish the order and replace it with the Order of the Liberators of Venezuela, a revival of the medal created by Simón Bolívar in 1813 to honor participants of the Admirable Campaign.[1]
The new order, unlike its predecessor, has 3 classes, in ascending order:
- Arrow of the Liberators
- Lance of the Liberators
- Sword of the Liberators
The President is the order's Grand Master, and has full authority over appointments to the Order. He or she wears the collar of the Sword of the Liberators class of the order.
References
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