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 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 ...

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 ...

Bolívar: American Liberator BY MARIE ARANA. Simon & Schuster, 2013, 544 pp. $35.00. When he died of tuberculosis in 1830, the Venezuelan revolutionary Simón Bolívar -- a military leader and politician ...

Edgar Ramirez plays revolutionary leader Simon Bolivar in "The Liberator." (Northwest Film Center) It may have taken Hollywood a few decades too long to get around to making a Martin Luther King, Jr.