Bolívar aimed at a strong and united Spanish America able to cope not only with the threats emanating from Spain and the European Holy Alliance but also with the emerging power of the United States. He was simultaneously president of Gran Colombia (present-day Venezuela, Colombia, Panama and Ecuador), Peru, and Bolivia, but soon after, his second-in-command, Antonio José de Sucre, was appointed president of Bolivia. Through further military campaigns, he ousted Spanish rulers from Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, the last of which was named after him.
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Despite a number of hindrances, including the arrival of an unprecedentedly large Spanish expeditionary force, the revolutionaries eventually prevailed, culminating in the victory at the Battle of Carabobo in 1821, which effectively made Venezuela an independent country.įollowing this triumph over the Spanish monarchy, Bolívar participated in the foundation of the first union of independent nations in Latin America, Gran Colombia, of which he was president from 1819 to 1830. He established an organized national congress within three years. The campaign for the independence of Colombia (Gran Colombia-later New Granada) was consolidated with the victory at the Battle of Boyacá on 7 August 1819. Taking advantage of the disorder in Spain prompted by the Peninsular War, Bolívar began his campaign for independence in 1808. While in Europe he was introduced to the ideas of the Enlightenment, which later motivated him to overthrow the reigning Spanish in colonial South America. Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Ponte Palacios y Blanco ( English: / ˈ b ɒ l ɪ v ər, - v ɑːr/ BOL-iv-ər, -ar, also US: / ˈ b oʊ l ɪ v ɑːr/ BOH-liv-ar, Spanish: ( listen) 24 July 1783 – 17 December 1830), also colloquially as El Libertador, or Liberator of America, was a Venezuelan military and political leader who led what are currently the countries of Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Panama to independence from the Spanish Empire.īolívar was born in Caracas into a wealthy family and, as was common for heirs of upper-class families in his day, was sent to be educated abroad at a young age, arriving in Spain when he was 16 and later moving to France.
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(as President of the First Republic of Venezuela)Ĭaracas, Captaincy General of Venezuela (Kingdom of Venezuela), Spanish Empire President of the Second Republic of Venezuela President of the Third Republic of Venezuela José Bernardo de Tagle, Marquis of Torre-Tagle