Slavery is the daughter of darkness: an ignorant people is a blind instrument of its own destruction
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Simon Bolivar was a 18th-century venezuelan statesman and military officer. Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar Palacios Ponte y Blanco was a Venezuelan military officer and statesman who led what are currently the countries of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela to independence from the Spanish Empire. He is known colloquially as El Libertador, or the Liberator of America. Read more on Wikipedia →