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 ...

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, ...

Deep into Marie Arana’s wonderful new biography of Simón Bolívar, “the George Washington of South America,” there’s a deliciously unexpected pause in the action. It’s 1816, and Bolívar has set sail ...

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 ...

long beach >> It’s taken almost 30 years, but Tina Datsko de Sánchez has finally published “The Delirium of Simón Bolívar,” a bilingual collection of poetry she wrote about the 19th century South ...

CARACAS, Venezuela – CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Hugo Chavez has opened the coffin of his idol Simon Bolivar as Venezuela investigates the president's suspicions of foul play in the South American ...

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.