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El Libertador
Writings of Simón Bolívar
Simón Bolívar
Edited by
David Bushnell
and Translated by
Fred Fornoff
OUP USA
Library of Latin America
978-0-19-514481-9 | Paperback | 14 August 2003
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The writings of one of the most important liberators in South American history, and the man who defined the map of the continent
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 for Latin American integration are relevant and widely read today, even among Latin Americans of all countries and of all political persuasions. The "Cartagena Letter," the "Jamaica Letter," and the "Angostura Address," are widely cited and reprinted.
Readership:
Scholars and students of Latin American history and literature.
Simón Bolívar
Edited by
David Bushnell
, Professor Emeritus of History and Latin American Studies, University of Florida , and Translated by
Fred Fornoff
, Professor of Spanish and Humanities, University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown
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