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Bolivar: American Liberator Marie Arana
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Aug 9, 2012 - CARACAS – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez bestowed the Order of the Liberators on the country's Olympic fencing champion, Ruben Limardo, and presented him with a replica of the sword of South American liberator Simon Bolivar. Simon Bolivar's profile in the United States is not a prominent one. Dec 4, 2007 - The Liberator diamond that was discovered in the Gran Sabana region of Venezuela in 1942, was named in honor of Simon Bolivar the 19th century liberator of Venezuela and other Spanish colonies of Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia, from the yoke of Spanish imperialism. Hubbard speaks of Bolivar in glowing terms: brave, dashing, and cunning. Nov 21, 2007 - The Great American Liberator Is Born. Bolivar's father, Colonel Juan Vicente Bolvar y Ponte, died in 1786 when Simn Bolvar was a few months' shy of his third birthday, while his mother, Concepcin Palacios Blanco, died in 1792. Jan 23, 2014 - It begins with a several-page essay summarizing the rise and fall of nineteenth-century South American liberator Simon Bolivar. The people of these countries Venezuela and Guyana two countries situated in the north of the South American continent, had been famous as commercial sources of alluvial diamonds. One country's demi-god can be another's historical relic. Jun 18, 2011 - "Bolivar: The Liberator of Latin America," by Robert Harvey. The great South American liberator Simn Bolvar (1783-1830) was born in Caracas, Venezuela, and was of Basque origin -- ironic because this region of northern Spain is still awaiting its liberation or liberator.