Eduardo Blanco (1838–1912) was a Venezuelan writer and politician, as well as an aide-de-camp to General José Antonio Páez, independence hero and first president of Venezuela after the breakup of Gran Colombia in 1830.

[1] His main work is Venezuela Heroica (1881), a classic romantic view of history as an epic.

Venezuela heroica is structured in five vignettes that depict the main battles and heroes of the Venezuelan War of Independence.

Páez was so moved from his memories of youth, the anecdote goes, that he could not stop telling his aide the details of the battle.

[2] Eduado Blanco was minister of foreign affairs for the government of Cipriano Castro (1899–1908).