True. Here the took out Paez from national history because he was a key part of La Cosiata, the separatist movement that pit and end to Gran Colombia. However, there wouldn't be a history of Venezuela as a country if Paez didn't exist. I guess it's because of all the Patriots that's the one that resembles mode the imbeciles at the top of government.
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Here in the US, while people rightly condemn the Confederacy for slavery, they conveniently ignore Lincoln's statement that he would preserve slavery if it meant preserving the union, and he only promoted abolishing slavery once he needed to drum up more public support for the war. There were also a few slave states that did not secede, and prior to the war, there had been free states suggesting secession to separate themselves from the US history of slavery. But the very idea of secession has now been intertwined with slavery in the public mind so much that serious discussion is impossible. And we just celebrated the colonies seceding from Great Britain's empire a few days ago, too.
Slavery is also a convoluted topic around here. Bolivar once lost a lot of followers when he decided to free the slaves. When the whole war ended black people didn't have it easy. There's this idea of colour blindness around here. However, a lot of what we see as tolerance and jokes is founded on racists thoughts. The same is true for xenophobia. Venezuelans suffer from that a lot nowadays, but back when we didn't have a diaspora, you could see how mockery and offensive behavior was keen towards foreigners. The same people who run basically everything around here.