SIMÓN BOLÍVAR

Simon Jose Antonio de la Santisima Trinidad Bolivar y Palacios Ponte y Blanco, better known as Simón Bolívar, (Caracas, Captaincy General of Venezuela, July 24, 1783 - Santa Marta, Gran Colombia, December 17, 1830) was a military and Venezuelan politician prerepublicana time of the Captaincy General of Venezuela; founder of Gran Colombia and one of the most important of American emancipation against the Spanish Empire figures. 

He contributed decisively to the independence of current 

Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru and Venezuela. 

In 1813 he was awarded the honorary title of Liberator by the Town hall of Merida in Venezuela that, after being ratified in Caracas that year, became associated with his name. The problems to carry out their plans were so frequent that even said himself that he was "the man of difficulties" in a letter to General Francisco de Paula Santander in 1825.

He participated in the founding of the Gran Colombia, a nation that tried to consolidate like a great political and military confederation in America, of which he was President. Bolivar is considered by their actions and ideas "Man of America" and a leading figure in world history as it left a political legacy in several Latin American countries, some of which have become the object of nationalistic veneration. He has received honors in several parts of the world through statues or monuments, parks, squares, etc. Likewise, his ideas and political-social attitudes led to a stream or posture called bolivarianismo.