Juan Bimba

Juan Bimba was used as the national personification of Venezuela, but is now considered obsoleted. According to the local folkrore on the region of Cumaná the name comes from a mentally-ill local habitant; but this version is doubtful. What is true is that it was first used by Juan Vicente González as an example of the average Venezuelan peasant, the prototype of the common people. This was used and preserved by Andrés Eloy Blanco in several poems and the Fantoches magazine