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...Simon Bolivar was born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1783, the son of an aristocratic, enormously wealthy Spanish coffee planter; In a series of violent, bloody campaigns he freed Venezuela, Colombia...
...Pedro Alejandrino, Colombia, of tuberculosis, Dec. 17, 1830. Said he: "All we have gained is independence, and we have gained it at the cost of everything else. . . . Those who have toiled for liberty in South America have plowed in the sea." Phrasemakers delight in the comparison between Simon Bolivar and George Washington. Pedantic historians deplore it, point out that Bolivar was violently emotional, often extremely cruel; that while Washington constantly urged the U. S. to avoid "entangling alliances," Bolivar was an internationalist, dreamed and wrote of a League of Nations with Panama as its Geneva. The real difference is that...
Germany: For the first time since the War, foreign consuls in socialistic Hamburg wore diplomatic uniforms at a Bolivar ceremony in the Rathaus, were told that similar ceremonies were going on at the same time in Paris, Rome, Brussels. Spain. With an insidious revolution gnawing at his throne, all Spain under martial law, Alfonso XIII celebrated Bolivar Day in Madrid by riding in an open carriage under a skeleton guard to attend the memorial mass at the Church of San Francisco...
...Centenary of the death of Simon Bolivar; chiefly at Caracas, Bolivar's birthplace, Venezuela's capital...
...began his South American travels, from which he gained his reputation as an explorer, his admission to the Explorers' Club. Each exploration produced a book. The 1,000-mi. jungle journey along the route of Bolivar became Journal of an Expedition Across Venezuela and Colombia (1909). His exploration of the old Spanish trade route from Buenos Aires to Lima, resulted in Across South America (1911). He led a Peruvian expedition which discovered the last Inca capital, climbed Mt. Corpuna (21,703 ft.) in the Andes. Out of these excursions came Vitcos, the Last Inca Capital (1912), In the Wonderland...