Simon Bolivar

In the 19 century, Simon Bolivar was loved or hated by his countryman, why is that? He aspired that South America should be independent of the empire of Spain. By 1822, he achieves this, nevertheless, the question lies how he did so. In my view, While reading through his proclamation of 1813, he makes comments on equality for all, however by also including fear in his speech. This notion of, “the states defended by our arms are again governed by their former constitutions and tribunals.” By adding emphasis that you were saved, by my army and no one else. That my men gave their lives up so that you could be liberated and restored your own laws. He goes on to say, “ in full enjoyment of their liberty and independence,

With other Latin American uprisings occurring Simon Bolivar led the South American independence. Bolivar was a wealthy Creole born in Venezuela but educated in Spain. Influenced by Enlightenment ideas, Bolivar called for independence for all South Americans. He gained firm control of his native Venezuela in 1819. His armies then turned toward Columbia and Ecuador. In the south Jose de San Martin rallied Argentinean forces against Spain. Bolivar and San Martin met in Peru, which became independent along with Upper Peru (Bolivia) in 1824. Although Bolivar was unsuccessful in uniting South Americans into a single nation, he is known as the continent's "liberator."

We all have heard of Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington but, what about Simon Bolivar, Jose De San Martin, and Agustin De Iturbide? They have had just as much as an impact on the modern world as the famous founding fathers of The United States. From 1809 to 1824 independence revolutions raged through Latin America changing the world today with the creoles leading the fight. Despite the racist ideas from the Creoles, they successfully lead the Latin American Revolution because of their motivations to challenge their law, and administrative positions.

Juárez was born in the village of San Pablo Guelatao, Oaxaca on March 21, 1807, located in the mountain range now known as the "Sierra Juárez". His parents, Marcelino Juárez and Brígida García, were peasants who both died when he was three years old. Shortly after, his grandparents died as well, in which his uncle then raised him.[2][3] He described his parents as "indios de la raza primitiva del país," that is, "Indians of the original race of the country."[3] He worked in the corn fields and as a shepherd until the age of 12, when he walked to the city of Oaxaca to attend school.[1] At the time, he was illiterate and could not speak Spanish, only Zapotec.

Where on the other hand, Simon Bolivar was the kind of guy that would save the day and do bold and unexpected things.

Some may say that Pablo Escobar helped his country Columbia greatly by spreading his illegitimate wealth across Columbia but the amount of terror and killing he spread across the western hemisphere far outweighed the money he put into the less fortunate communities. December 1, 1949, Rionegro, Colombia, Escobar was born. His family was extremely poor, for example one time he and his brother Roberto were sent home from school because they were unable to buy shoes. From an early age, Escobar had possessed a unique drive and ambition to raise himself up from his humble beginnings. As a boy, he told his friends and family that when he grew up, he wanted to become president of Colombia. Yet as he grew older he realized his path to wealth and legitimacy

Simón Bolívar was said to be a revolutionary during the period of the early nineteenth century because he wanted to change Latin America. His goal was to promote change and gain independence for the Latin American states from Spanish rule, and

Did you know that Venezuela was one of the first colonies to gain their independence from Spain? At the time Venezuela was a Spanish ruled colony and the people of Venezuela felt that their government was ruling their colony terribly (Adelblue). The people were led by Simon Bolivar, whose nickname was “The Liberator” since he liberated Venezuela and worked with San Martin to liberate most of Northern South America (Adelblue). Venezuela declared their independence in 1810 and finally gained their independence after the Battle of Carabobo in 1821 (Minster). Three symbolic elements of the Venezuelan revolution are used to portray Simon Bolivar, the speech Simon gave to the Second National Congress in 1819 to encourage the type of government he had in mind, and the high taxation that was the main cause of the revolution (Ellis and Esler 705).

a unified league of Central and South American nations. However, resentment of his authoritarian ways along with fighting between states and personality conflicts caused his influence to

“More than by force do they dominate us, by deception” were the words of Latin American revolution leader, Simon Bolivar. The Latin American revolution was a fight for independence from Spain, their mother country. In the colonies people were divided into different social groups. Beginning with the higher-classes the different classes were Peninsulares, Creoles, Mestizos, Mulattos, Indians and lastly slaves. The Creoles, American-born Spaniards, led this revolution for three reasons: desire of political control, to provide protection for their economic interests, and their fear towards social unrest.

The “Bolivarian revolution” revolves around the rise of the leftest movement which started with Hugo Chavez, and soon many other leaders rose to the occasion. The sole purpose of this movement was to help Latin America get rid of dictators and reestablish under Simon Bolivar's ideals of making Latin America not a colony but a nation for the people residing in it. Now that Chavez is dead, I believe that he was able to complete Bolivar's conquest of freeing Latin America. Now that Chavez has passed away, he has left both good and bad implications, but I believe its more good than bad. “The real opposition to Chavez is from the United States which was so angry at the way that he built up a credible alternative to the U.S. idea of free trade with

Simon Bolivar, who had a reputation of being a liberator, took center stage. The common folk began to trust his words, as he talked about fighting for the resources that were theirs, ideals taken directly from the American Revolution itself. Also with the power struggle created by the Napoleonic wars, uprisings began. The most prominent of this movement was the uprising in Chuquisaca in 1809, which led to the formation of the Government Juntas. This group focused on taking the power from the Spanish and giving it to the people. Seeing the movement in Bolivia take shape, Latin Nations such as Peru began to provide military support to Bolivian liberators. Surprisingly, America didn’t live up to its reputation, having no negative impact on this revolution. Normally, America had been notorious for backing up the dictators or colonial powers and suppressing the Latin liberators. All in all, the combination of a power struggle brought upon by foreign wars, introduction of revolutionary independence ideals, proper leadership, and foreign aid, the Bolivian revolution was successful in liberating the nation from Spanish Colonial power after 16 years of conflict.

For Peruvians, it had taken forty one years for Peru declared its independence from Spain. In 1780, the people of Peru had started their path towards independence with Tupac Amaru. Unfortunately, the uprising did not last more than a year and Tupac Amaru was later executed in 1781. This uprising had not give Peru enough motivation to have the common folks fight for what they believe in. The Peruvian people did not have any other chance until the Ferdinand VII was overthrown by Napoleon. Thankfully after, Jose de San Martin of Argentina had decided it was time to free his people from foreign rule. In 1820, Jose de San Martin of Argentina had started fight back against Spaniards in Peru. A year later after engaging the Spaniards, Peru officially

Simon Bolivar’s last words were, “How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!” This labyrinth is an allusion of suffering. Francois Rabelais’s last words were “I go to seek a Great Perhaps,” which is an allusion for hope. Pudge, The Colonel, and Alaska are all in a labyrinth of suffering and cope with it in different ways to try and find the exit. In “Looking for Alaska” the characters deal with the labyrinth by thinking that there is no escape, that you have a choice to be in it, and that you can escape by finding a “Great Perhaps.”

Argentine general, Jose de San Martin came to Peru in 1820 and declared Peru an independent country the next year on July 28. The Peruvians had been fighting for independence for over a decade (“Historical Information”). Simón Bolivar, had helped almost all of South America declare freedom, refused to liberate Peru, unless he did not have to share power. Martin stepped down and Bolivar won independence and beat the Spanish in