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General Simón Bolívar (1783-1830), called El Liberator, and sometimes the ''George Washington'' of Latin America, was the leading hero of the Latin American independence movement. His victories over Spain won independence for Bolivia, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Bolívar became Columbia''s first president in 1819. In 1822, he became dictator of Peru. Upper Peru became a separate state, which was named Bolivia in Bolívar''s honor, in 1825. The constitution, which he drew up for Bolivia, is one of his most important political pronouncements. Today he is remembered throughout South America, and in Venezuela and Bolivia his birthday is a national holiday. Although Bolívar never prepared a systematic treatise, his essays, proclamations, and letters constitute some of the most eloquent writing not of the independence period alone, but of any period in Latin American history. His analysis of the region''s fundamental problems, ideas on political organization and proposals f

El Libertador

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    A Paperback by Simon Bolivar, David Bushnell, Fred Fornoff

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      Publisher Oxford University Press
      Published 8/14/2003 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780195144819
      978-0195144819
      ISBN-10 0195144813
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      Biography: historical, political and military History of the Americas Political science and theory

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      Book Synopsis
      General Simón Bolívar (1783-1830), called El Liberator, and sometimes the ''George Washington'' of Latin America, was the leading hero of the Latin American independence movement. His victories over Spain won independence for Bolivia, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Bolívar became Columbia''s first president in 1819. In 1822, he became dictator of Peru. Upper Peru became a separate state, which was named Bolivia in Bolívar''s honor, in 1825. The constitution, which he drew up for Bolivia, is one of his most important political pronouncements. Today he is remembered throughout South America, and in Venezuela and Bolivia his birthday is a national holiday. Although Bolívar never prepared a systematic treatise, his essays, proclamations, and letters constitute some of the most eloquent writing not of the independence period alone, but of any period in Latin American history. His analysis of the region''s fundamental problems, ideas on political organization and proposals f

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