Word: bolivar
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...SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF PUERTO RICO, ELECTED BY UNIVERSAL MALE AND FEMALE SUFFRAGE ONE YEAR AGO, HAVE TODAY APPROVED A RESOLUTION, WITH VOTES NOT ONLY OF MAJORITY PARTY BUT OF ALL PARTIES REPRESENTED IN THE LEGISLATURE, VIGOROUSLY REPUDIATING THE ATTACK BY PUERTO RICAN RESIDENT COMMISSIONER BOLIVAR PAGAN AGAINST GOVERNOR TUGWELL AS FALSE IN ITS IRRESPONSIBLE ALLEGATIONS AND AS PROVIDING, UNLESS REPUDIATED BY THE PEOPLE AND THE LEGISLATURE, A BASIS FOR NAZI PROPAGANDA IN LATIN AMERICA WHICH IS ALREADY BEING USED BY THE BERLIN RADIO...
...There were also "certain defects," lack of appreciation of subordinates, unwillingness to admit shortcomings, a tendency to complain and be sorry for himself. But "these were the defects of the qualities that made him a great historical figure. For he was not, like a Washington, a Cromwell or a Bolivar, an instrument chosen by multitudes to express their wills. . . . He was Man alone with God against human stupidity and depravity, against greedy conquistadors, cowardly seamen, even against nature...
...Prophecy." Bolivar was ahead of his time. His Pan-American Congress was not a success. The personal attacks on him increased. As dictator of Colombia, he was charged with planning to make himself king. The politicians and the rebellious generals began to undermine him. In 1830, the year he died, Bolivar appeared before the Congress at Bogotá and renounced his power as president and generalissimo...
...Bolivar started for the coast and exile. His letters became Timon-like. "I am resolved," he wrote before starting, "to die an exile in want and sorrow." He was ill and traveled slowly. He began to head his letters "from a deathbed, that is, a place of prophecy." He prophesied that if Latin Americans could not unite, they would "relapse into little tyrannies of all colors and races" until "devoured by all crimes and destroyed by chaos, we shall be reconquered by Europe." He did not think his warnings would do much good. "There have been three great fools...
...Bolivar's great contemporary and rival, San Martin, the Liberator of Argentina and Chile, was also in exile, also embittered, but expressed himself more philosophically. "You don't seem to know," he remarked to a friend who blamed him for leaving politics to tend his garden, "that two-thirds of the inhabitants of this earth are idiots, the rest criminals...