Simon Bolivar had traits from George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Napoleon, all in one titanic personality. Born to wealth, he came to champion equal rights for all South ...

At the height of his glory in the mid-1820s, Simón Bolívar was simultaneously liberator-president of Greater Colombia (which then included what are today Venezuela, Panama and Ecuador), dictator of ...

In 1821, Simón Bolívar launched a risky assault that broke Spanish control in Venezuela. The Battle of Carabobo lasted less ...

During his glorious military career he logged 75,000 miles on horseback. Some might slyly suggest he also logged 75,000 lovers. But as "The Liberator" that his admirers call him, or as the libertine ...

In 1783, the year George Washington resigned his commission as commander in chief and returned to Mount Vernon, Simon Bolivar was born to an aristocratic family in Caracas, Venezuela. Bolivar would ...

The new film The Liberator is an attempt to bring the epic story of Simon Bolivar, the George Washington of Latin America, to international audiences. Directed by Venezuelan filmmaker Alberto Arvelo, ...

South American revolutionary leader Simon Bolivar (1783 - 1830), known as 'The Liberator'. Original Artwork: Engraving by W Hall. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) South American revolutionary ...

This timely and stirring narrative, with breaks for interpretation and a final pause for empathetic appraisal, is the first major English-language biography of "the Liberator" in half a century.

A dilapidated statue of Simón Bolívar, the founding father of several Latin American countries, sits off the intersection of Canal and Basin streets in New Orleans — a gift from the Venezuelan ...