Word: bolivar
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...years. Illiteracy has been halved to 25%; the number of primary school students has jumped from 700,000 to 1,200.000, and for the first time in Venezuelan history the government is spending more on education than on the military. This, in a nation that Liberator Simon Bolivar once called ''the barracks" of South America. Now Betancourt is struggling to finish his five-year term, hold free elections and see his legal successor take office in February 1964. If he succeeds, it will be another historic first for a nation whose history is riddled with revolt and dictatorship...
Lamb Stew Years. The inter-American system that has produced the OAS was invented by Símon Bolivar, South America's George Washington. In 1826 hemisphere nations met with him in Panama to produce a treaty dealing with common defense, peaceful settlement of disputes and abolition of slave trading. There the idea rested until 1889, when U.S. Secretary of State James G. Elaine organized a trade-promoting "International Union of American Republics." In 1910 the organization got its present Spanish-colonial-style headquarters in Washington and a permanent secretariat, the Pan American Union. It then began a three...
...NACIONAL of Caracas: Semi-colonial peoples have never managed to emancipate themselves without counting on the rivalries be tween great powers. The U.S.S.R. oc cupies for us today the place England had when Simon Bolivar cut the um bilical cord that tied us to Spain. We would not be worthy if we did not take advantage of that reality...
Brandy, Anyone? On Mount Baldy, Calif., humans rescued a Saint Bernard named Simón Bolivar who got stuck on a ledge...
True, in 1909 a resolution of the federal Senate pronounced Garcia an "Illustrious Hero of the War of Independence" and decreed that his remains be transferred from the cemetery to the Pantheon of Heroes in Caracas, resting place of Bolivar and the rest of Venezuela's great. In preparation, the people of Cumana put the bones in a small, carved mahogany urn. But it took five years for officials in Caracas to dispatch the warship Miranda to Cumana to get the urn, and then the Miranda was diverted instead to another part of the country to quell a rebellion...