The Generation of 1928 was a group of Venezuela

Venezuela

Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...

n students who led protests in Caracas

Caracas

Caracas , officially Santiago de León de Caracas, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela; natives or residents are known as Caraquenians in English . It is located in the northern part of the country, following the contours of the narrow Caracas Valley on the Venezuelan coastal mountain range...

 in 1928 against the dictatorship of Juan Vicente Gómez

Juan Vicente Gómez

Juan Vicente Gómez Chacón was a military general and de facto ruler of Venezuela from 1908 until his death in 1935. He was president on three occasions during this time, and ruled as an unelected military strongman for the rest of the era.-Early years:Gómez was a barely literate cattle herder and...

. Many politicians prominent in Venezuela's transition to democracy took part in the protests. They include Rómulo Betancourt

Rómulo Betancourt

Rómulo Ernesto Betancourt Bello , known as "The Father of Venezuelan Democracy", was President of Venezuela from 1945 to 1948 and again from 1959 to 1964, as well as leader of Accion Democratica, Venezuela's dominant political party in the 20th century...

, Jóvito Villalba

Jóvito Villalba

Jóvito Villalba Gutiérrez , was a Venezuelan lawyer and politician, member of the Generation of 1928, founder of the party URD and signer of the Punto Fijo Pact.-Background:...

, Juan Oropeza

Juan Oropeza

Juan Oropeza Riera was a Venezuelan lawyer, diplomat, writer, educator and political science expert. He was born in Carora in the state of Lara, and was the younger brother of pediatrics pioneer, Pastor Oropeza Riera....

, Raúl Leoni

Raúl Leoni

Raúl Leoni Otero was President of Venezuela from 1964 until 1969. He fought against the dictators Juan Vicente Gómez and Marcos Pérez Jiménez, and was a charter member of the Acción Democrática party....

, Andrés Eloy Blanco

Andrés Eloy Blanco

Andrés Eloy Blanco Meaño was an important Venezuelan poet, politician, member of the Generación del 28, and one of the founders of Acción Democrática ....

, Miguel Otero Silva

Miguel Otero Silva

Miguel Otero Silva , was a Venezuelan writer, journalist, humorist and politician. Remaining a figure of great reference in Venezuelan literature, his literary and journalistic works were strictly related to the social and political history of Venezuela.-Life:Born in Barcelona, Anzoátegui State,...

, Pedro Sotillo

Pedro Sotillo

Pedro Sotillo was a Venezuelan writer, journalist, and poet. He was a distinguished member of the Generation of 1928 and co-founder of several well-known magazines such as El Ingenioso Hidalgo and válvula.-Early life:...

, Juan Bautista Fuenmayor, Germán Suárez Flamerich

Germán Suárez Flamerich

Germán Suárez Flamerich was President of Venezuela from 1950 to 1952.Flamerich was a lawyer, college professor, diplomat, and politician. He was president of the "Junta de Gobierno" 1950-1952, after the assassination of Carlos Delgado Chalbaud. His parents were J.M. Suárez and Clorinda Flamerich...

, and Gustavo Machado.

After the 1928 protests a number of the Generation of 1928 went into exile. Political organizations in exile included the founding of Agrupación Revolucionaria de Izquierda (ARDI) in Colombia in 1931 by Rómulo Betancourt

Rómulo Betancourt

Rómulo Ernesto Betancourt Bello , known as "The Father of Venezuelan Democracy", was President of Venezuela from 1945 to 1948 and again from 1959 to 1964, as well as leader of Accion Democratica, Venezuela's dominant political party in the 20th century...

 and others. This later became the Partido Democrático Nacional, a forerunner of Democratic Action

Democratic Action

Democratic Action is a centrist Venezuelan political party established in 1941. The party and its antecedents played an important role in the early years of Venezuelan democracy, and led the government during Venezuela's first democratic period...

. The Communist Party of Venezuela

Communist Party of Venezuela

The Communist Party of Venezuela is a Marxist-Leninist political party, and the oldest continuously existing party in Venezuela...

, also founded in 1931, was initially led by Francisco José "Kotepa"Delgado and Juan Bautista Fuenmayor.