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Traveler: Simón Bolivar

This activity corresponds to the "Traveler: Simón Bolivar" feature in your textbook. The questions below are designed to help you learn more about the topic. Once you have answered the Comprehension questions, submit your answers and move on to the subsequent questions included in the Analysis and Outside Sources sections. Each section is designed to build upon the one before it, taking you progressively deeper into the subject you are studying. After you have answered all of the questions, you will have the option of emailing your responses to your instructor.

Introduction

That Simón Bolivar in known in Latin American simply as "the Liberator" tells us much about his position in the region's popular historical imagination. So transformative were his accomplishments that they have subsumed him, the complex individual, into a title derived from a single act. Of course, Bolivar played a role in creating his own myth. The account you read in your text of his oath outside of Rome is the work of a man deeply concerned with how the future would regard him. The links and questions below will enable you to consider additional moments in the development of Bolivar's identity as El Libertador.

Comprehension

1. What city did Simón Bolivar visit in 1805?

2. In what country did Bolivar grow up?

3. What military victory did Bolivar achieve in 1824?

Analysis

Go to and read Bolivar's Message to the Congress of Angostura (1819).

1. With what people does Bolivar identify himself, and how does he define the distinctiveness of that people?

2. Why does Bolivar advocate a hereditary Senate?

3. What role does Bolivar envision for executive power in the Latin American republic?

Outside Sources

1. Bolivar's first major political statement was the so-called Cartagena Manifesto of 1812. Read the text of the Manifesto at . What weaknesses, according to Bolivar, undermined the young government of Venezuela?

2. One of Bolivar's political and spiritual offspring, Francisco Bilbao, shared Bolivar's despair over what happened in the liberated nations of South America. Go to and read Bilbao's remarks. What effect, according to Bilbao, have dictatorships had on Latin American political culture?

3. Go to and read the article about an event involving the statue of Bolivar in Caracas, Venezuela. What do you think the event reported in the article meant to Venezuelans?

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