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...earliest and shortest land-sea battles on record was a naval rout and cavalry triumph. In 1818 José Antonio Páez, a crack horseman and guerrilla leader under Simon Bolivar, sent 50 of his llaneros against a flotilla of Spanish gunboats anchored in the middle of the Apure river in Venezuela. Waving spears and howling like Oriental dervishes, they swam their barebacked white horses through the swift, brown waters. Astonished Spaniards fired a few random shots and then jumped overboard in panic. Páez took every boat, without losing...
...Quintanilla's book is that a Pan-America can and should be created, that such a union could serve as an example for reorganization of the world. He goes far back in American history to describe the development of unity in the Americas (Simón Bolivar, he says, was the spiritual founder of this ideal). Among the obstacles to this ideal, he singles out "the greatest stumbling block in the way of genuine inter-Americanism": the Monroe Doctrine, as it has been interpreted by the U.S. through the years...
...Americanism, says Dr. Quintanilla, is now in its fourth stage. "Bolivar was the romantic hero of our first act; Monroe the star of Act II; U.S. Secretary of State James G. Elaine [who instigated the first Pan-American Conference in Washington in 1889] the principal character of Act III; and one of America's greatest, Franklin D. Roosevelt, is the hero of Act IV." In Roosevelt's administration "the Good Neighor Policy had been put to the test. . . . For the first time in the history of the Western Hemisphere, we of Latin America may confidently clasp the open...
...York World's Fair, Chevalier of the Legion of Honor and Officier d'Instruction Publique with gold palms (French), Commander of the Order of the Crown (Italy), Commander of the Order of the Crown (Rumania), holder of the Royal Victorian Order (British), the Order of Simon Bolivar (Venezuela), the Chinese Order of the Jade, the Hungarian Cross of Merit II, the Hungarian Cross of Merit with Star...
...would even suggest a name: the Bolivar Squadron...