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Simon Bolivar
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Like Simon Bolivar, Nelson Mandela is and has been a great organiser. In 1962 he travelled to many independent African States in East, North and West Africa to seek united support for the South African struggle. One year later, the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) was formed, the cornerstone of its policy being the struggle for the total liberation of Africa. For that specific purpose the OAU established the OAU Coordinating Committee for the Liberation of Africa, with its headquarters in Tanzania, consistent with the crucial role that this country played, and continues to play, in the liberation struggle, especially of southern Africa.
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John Lynch’s biography of Simon Bolivar, “A Life,” is the first English-language biography of the man known as “the liberator” in half a century. And, while it is almost painfully dry at times (even for a history major), it does shed some light on Chavez’ thinking.
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While in Jamaica, Simon Bolivar wrote the now famous "Letter from Jamaica" in which he expressed his ideas for republican government and Latin American unity. Widely recognized as an important political doctrine the letter was actually titled, "Reply of a South American to a Gentleman of this Island." It was Bolivar's lengthy response to a letter he had received from an unnamed Jamaican who empathized with Bolivar's struggle for South American liberation and indicated a desire to learn more about the politics and people of each South American province. Specifically, the Jamaican Gentleman asked Bolivar to explain such technicalities as whether each province desired a monarchy or a republic or to form one unified republic or one single monarchy. This sparked the Spanish American patriot and general to launch into his treatise an extensive description of the history of the different provinces (including the present-day countries of Venezuela, Columbia, Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru) and an exploration of his own ideas for their political futures.
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Simon Bolivar began vigorously rebuilding and administering the devastated new states. He was at the height of his power when he convened a congress of Latin American republics in Panama in 1826. He envisioned a league of the fledgling Central and South American nations, but he was far ahead of his time.85
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Simon Bolivar was born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1783 and died in 1830. Born into an aristocratic family, his wealth provided him with an excellent education as well as the means to travel extensively abroad. Exposure to European politics and philosophy gave him the passion to return home where he came to be acknowledged as the Liberator of six South American nations. Antonio Jose de Sucre was born in Venezuela 1795 and died in the Barrenco Mountains in 1830. He is one of the most revered compatriots of fellow revolutionary Simon Bolivar. Sucre became Bolivia's first President and the national currency of Ecuador, the sucre, is named in his honor.
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Simon Bolivar was and is a Liberator. He hated oppression, and because he hated it, fought to destroy it. He hated falsehood, and therefore perished for the truth. He loathed barbarism and consequently sought to secure human dignity. He fought to do away with everything which aimed to impose misery on the peoples of this continent and the world.
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