Simon Bolivar And Latin American Revolutions

Simon Bolivar won independence for Bolivia, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. The country Bolivia was named after him.He was also called the" liberator" which means ,to let go free and "George Washington of South America". Simon Bolivar was one of south America's greatest generals . His victories over the Spaniards gave him the ability to gain freedom for those countries. He got influenced a by the Europeans and Americans because after he saw that those countries were finally getting rid of their kings. After his wife died of yellow fever he was traveling in Europe and he devoted most of his time in the studies of Rousseau ,Locke, and Voltaire and at the same time being astonished by the work of Napoleon Bonaparte I.While he was traveling back he saw that the Americans have gained their independence from England, all these things influenced him to do the same to his country. After he beat the Spaniard's he organized what was called the republic of Columbia (now Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, and Venezuela). Bolivar then became its 1st president in 1819.The way that Bolivia was named after him was after he had a meeting with another great liberator and he became dictator of Peru,later the upper part of Peru was named in his honor (Bolivia).The constitution, which he wrote up for Bolivia, is one of his most important political documents.