Thursday, October 22, 2009

Simon Bolivar and Latin American Revolutions


Simon Bolivar was the liberator of South America and got their independence. Simon Bolivar was the one who had free Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador,Peru and Bolivia from having an unfair government. Simon wasn't the type to take advantage of his power he helped the Latin Americans get their freedom from Spain. He had learned about these independence from the countries he had visited. While learning about these governments and equal rights from the Enlightenment Thinkers, he and united also motivated groups of people to get these rights. He had given these countries their Independence by noticing how the American and French had a Revolution and got the Independence they wanted. To get their Independence they had to defeat the Spanish which was lead by a French king, King Joesph.

Simon Bolivar had won and gotten the freedom for these countries, he had ideas of what he was doing and didn't just go ahead and fought without idea of what he was fighting for. There is this one country names Bolivia which is named after Simon Bolivar. They had named Bolivia after him in honor of his success for defeating the Spanish army in Peru. After defeating the Spanish the upper congress of Peru decided to name that territory Bolivia in honor of Simon Bolivar. No one has forgotten about Simon Bolivar and how he fought for the Latin Americans to get their Independence. He has made history and is still being taught to others for his history not to be forgotten. Simon Bolivar was a great man, and died strong. He never gave up, was a strong leader.

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