Word: libertadores
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...first act was to call a congress. He took no political title for himself except that of Liberator, El Libertador, given him by the people. Again the revolutionists began to squabble. Again the Spaniards came back. Again Bolivar was an exile, this time in British Jamaica...
...Libertador, South America's George Washington, was 100 years dead last week. Officials of a dozen nations united to do him honor. Messages were sent, editorials published, statues unveiled and holidays declared. Only the fact that three of the six nations which he founded have suffered either revolution or political insurrections in the past year prevented El Libertador's centenary from being even more festive...
...Indians of Colombia, buried the base of Central Park's Bolivar statue under wreaths. Great Britain: Members of the Diplomatic Corps attended a requiem high mass in Westminster Cathedral (not the Abbey). Arthur Henderson, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, unveiled a tablet in Apsley House where El Libertador was once entertained by Wellington, not yet the victor of Waterloo...
Venezuela: Rheumy, blue-spectacled Dictator Juan Vincente Gomez puppet President Juan Bautista Perez dedicated a white marble pantheon over the ashes of El Libertador. Dictator Gomez remained prudently on his heavily guarded model farm. Oldsters mourned the fact that Cenizo was no longer living to take part in the ceremony. Cenizo, as all Caracans remember, was a dog of uncertain parentage who for nearly ten years slept on the base of the Bolivar statue in the Plaza Bolivar, appointed himself its official guardian, grew fat and imperious on the bounty of cafe proprietors, was the only dog ever...