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...newspaper El Siglo, mouthpiece of ailing President Laureano Gómez, praised Bolivar's idea of rule by an elite. In editorials supposedly written by Gómez himself, El Siglo echoed Bolívar's dictum that "elections are the scourge of all republics," and upheld the Liberator's aristocratic approach to politics. Said El Siglo: "If the law is abnormal or inconvenient, push it to one side . . . Retain elasticity . . . though procedure may not always be strictly legal. The letter kills; the spirit gives life...
...Steel signed contracts to build a $15 million, 170-mile-long ship channel through Venezuela's Macareo and Orinoco Rivers that will enable seagoing ore boats to pick up high-grade iron ore from its Cerro Bolivar iron mine, deliver it to the -new Fairless plant (TIME...
...this point, The Birth of a World becomes a pell-mell yarn. Time & again, Revolutionist Bolivar's army was reduced to a handful of men. With despairing patience he wrote articles and letters urging military discipline, an end to jealousy and anarchy among the patriot leaders. "Our army," he wrote, "is a sack with a hole at the bottom"-words that might have come from Valley Forge. Through sheer necessity, he became a brilliant guerrilla campaigner, making up in mobility and surprise what he lacked in numbers. Before he was through, he and his followers had routed the Spaniards...
...Will Be Said . . ." In the end, he won only a partial victory. The Spaniards were gone, but Venezuela remained riven by petty local interests and provincial narrowness. Bolivar's dream of a Latin-American federation came to nothing...
Though he had been hailed as the Liberator, he found himself deep in debt, abused by his compatriots, branded by his country's Congress as "an enemy of Venezuela." He died feeling that he was a failure. Writes Author Frank: "Bolivar strove to be Moses, Madison and Jefferson to a people not yet mature enough to produce them: this was his greatness and his tragedy." Part of this greatness was his clearheaded realization of how he had failed. Wrote Bolivar: "It will be said that I freed the New World, but it will not be said that I achieved...