Hij stond aan de wieg van de vorming van de landen Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela en Bolivia. Dat laatste land is naar hem genoemd.
Simón Bolívar was a revolutionary who freed six countries, an intellectual who argued the principles of national liberation, and a general who fought a cruel colonial war. His life, passions, battles, and great victories became embedded in Spanish American culture almost as soon as they happened. This is the first major English-language biography of “The Liberator” i…
