With captured funds and weapons and recruits flocking to his banner, it was only a matter of time before the remaining Spanish forces in New Granada and Venezuela were run down and defeated. He was named president and Francisco de Paula Santander was named vice president. Northern South America was liberated, so Bolivar turned his gaze to the south.
Sucre's army moved into present-day Ecuador, liberating towns and cities as it went. On May 24, , Sucre squared off against the largest royalist force in Ecuador. They fought on the muddy slopes of Pichincha Volcano, within sight of Quito. On December 9, Sucre dealt the royalists another harsh blow at the Battle of Ayacucho, basically destroying the last royalist army in Peru.
The next year, also on August 6, the Congress of Upper Peru created the nation of Bolivia, naming it after Bolivar and confirming him as president. It was his dream to unite them all, creating one unified nation. It was not to be. Santander had angered Bolivar by refusing to send troops and supplies during the liberation of Ecuador and Peru, and Bolivar dismissed him when he returned to Gran Colombia. By then, however, the republic was beginning to fall apart.
Regional leaders had been consolidating their power in Bolivar's absence. In Colombia, Santander still had his followers who felt that he was the best man to lead the nation.
The nations were divided among his supporters and his detractors: in the streets, people burned him in effigy as a tyrant. A civil war was a constant threat. His enemies tried to assassinate him on September 25, , and nearly managed to do so: only the intervention of his lover, Manuela Saenz , saved him.
As the Republic of Gran Colombia fell around him, his health deteriorated as his tuberculosis worsened. Even as he left, his successors fought over the pieces of his empire and his allies fought to get him reinstated. As he and his entourage slowly made their way to the coast, he still dreamed of unifying South America into one great nation. It was not to be: he finally succumbed to tuberculosis on December 17, His name made the famous list of the most famous people in history, compiled by Michael H.
His dreams and words have proved prescient time and again. He knew that the future of Latin America lay in freedom and he knew how to attain it. He predicted that if Gran Colombia fell apart and that if smaller, weaker republics were allowed to form from the ashes of the Spanish colonial system, the region would always be at an international disadvantage. Former Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez initiated what he called a "Bolivarian Revolution" in his country in , comparing himself to the legendary general as he tried to veer Venezuela into socialism.
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In , the last Spanish forces were defeated in Venezuela. In , he liberated Alta Peru, and Bolivia was founded. Bolivar faced tough times from onwards when violent factionalism sprung up all over northern South America. In , he proclaimed himself absolute ruler to resolve the political impasse in liberated regions. Until his resignation as president and death in , he dealt with uprisings that broke out all over liberated territories. The legacy of Bolivar, who died in , still echoes across Central and South America.
Achievements When he returned to Venezuela in , he saw a popular desire for independence after efforts to ignite the independence torch in by another patriotic Venezuelan general, Francisco de Miranda, in the form of an invasion of Spanish-controlled territories ended in failure. This process also led to a falling out between Bolivar and Miranda. Difficult years Bolivar faced tough times from onwards when violent factionalism sprung up all over northern South America.
That August, thanks to his lover, Manuela Saenz, he survived one of many assassination attempts.
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