El Libertador: Writings of Simón BolívarOxford University Press, 2003 - 235 Seiten General Simon Bolivar (1783-1830), called El Liberator, and sometimes the "George Washington" of Latin America, was the leading hero of the Latin American independence movement. His victories over Spain won independence for Bolivia, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Bolivar became Columbia's first president in 1819. In 1822, he became dictator of Peru. Upper Peru became a separate state, which was named Bolivia in Bolivar's honor, in 1825. The constitution, which he drew up for Bolivia, is one of his most important political pronouncements. Today he is remembered throughout South America, and in Venezuela and Bolivia his birthday is a national holiday. Although Bolivar never prepared a systematic treatise, his essays, proclamations, and letters constitute some of the most eloquent writing not of the independence period alone, but of any period in Latin American history. His analysis of the region's fundamental problems, ideas on political organization and proposals for Latin American integration are relevant and widely read today, even among Latin Americans of all countries and of all political persuasions. The "Cartagena Letter," the "Jamaica Letter," and the "Angostura Address," are widely cited and reprinted. " |
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SERIES EDITORS GENERAL INTRODUCTION | ix |
AN OVERVIEW OF THE BOLIVARIAN SOURCES | xviii |
INTRODUCTION | xxvii |
Memorial Addressed to | 3 |
Response from a South American to | 12 |
The Angostura Address 15 February 1819 | 31 |
The Bolivian Constitution 1826 | 54 |
Message to the Convention of Ocaña | 86 |
Declaration of Angostura 20 November 1818 | 132 |
A Soldiers Death Penalty Commuted 26 January 1828 | 139 |
Ploughing the Sea | 145 |
An Appeal for Support | 153 |
Invitation to the Governments of Colombia Mexico Río | 159 |
Letter to Colonel Patrick Campbell British Chargé | 172 |
Proclamation of the Civil Rights of Indians | 187 |
Method to Be Employed in the Education of My Nephew | 205 |
Constituent Congress of the Republic of Colombia | 103 |
Oath Taken in Rome 15 August 1805 | 113 |
Manifesto of Carúpano 7 September 1814 | 126 |
NOTES | 219 |
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