Liberating Revolution (Venezuela)

Liberating Revolution
	Part of the Venezuelan civil wars and the Thousand Days' War
	; Some leaders of the revolution: General Matos seated in the center, Lino Duarte (right), Doctor Santos Dominici (left), Manuel Matos Jr. (standing), Epifanio Acosta (standing) photo donated by the family of Dr. Santos Dominici .
Date	19 December 1901 - 22 July 1903
Location	Central, western and eastern Venezuela
Result	Restorative victory; Consolidation of the Andean Hegemony; End of the period of the Venezuelan civil wars;
Belligerents
Restorative government	Liberal rebels
Commanders and leaders
Cipriano Castro; Juan Vicente Gómez;	Manuel Antonio Matos; Luciano Mendoza; Amábile Solagnie; Roberto Vargas Díaz; Ramón Guerra; Nicolás Rolando; Gregorio Segundo Riera; Juan Pablo Peñaloza; Epifanio Acosta López; José María Acosta López; Alejandro Dúcharne; Horacio Dúcharne; Pedro Dúcharne; Domingo Monagas; Antonio Fernández; Carlos Rangel Garbiras; Rafael Montilla; Eugenio Segundo Riera; Lino Duarte Level; Pablo Guzmán; Pedro Oderiz Gonzalez; Santos Dominici; Tomás Funes; John Boulton; César Vicentini; Zoilo Vidal; José María Ortega Martínez
Units involved
20.000	18.000-20.000
Casualties and losses
	Between 1899 and 1903, in two continuous civil wars, 372 military encounters were fought (210 in the Liberating Revolution), at a cost of 50,000 lives.

The Liberating Revolution was a civil war in Venezuela between 1901 and 1903 in which a coalition of regional caudillos led by the banker Manuel Antonio Matos tried to overthrow the government of Cipriano Castro.^[5]

^ Irwin & Micett, 2008: 162
^ Brewer Carías, Allan Randolph & Ramón Escobar Salom. "El desarrollo institucional del Estado venezolano". En Apreciación del proceso histórico venezolano: Hacia la modernización, 1899-1935. Fascículo II, enero-julio de 1985, Caracas: Fundación Universidad Metropolitana, pp. 13. ISBN 9789802470013.Matos manages to join liberals with nationalists to form an army of 18,000 men, 9,000 from the East, 9,000 from the West, in a country of 2 million inhabitants. There is a time when Castro will have under his control only the states of Aragua, Miranda, Carabobo, the Federal District, the Andes and Zulia; because the rest of the country, the Center and South of the West, all of the East and Guayana are in the hands of the revolution.
^ Porras, 2011: 103
^ Izard, Miquel (1992). Política y economía en Venezuela: 1810-1991. Caracas: Fundación John Boulton, pp. 235. ISBN 9789800710050.
^ Irwin & Micett, 2008: 164