Let historians liberate the poor Liberator from the politicians who would abuse his name.
Yet many of his political ideas were very different from Mr Chávez's.In this section Happy families Time to liberate the Liberator The slow lane Facing down the FARC Gangland Reprints Related items Venezuela: President for life Aug 16th 2007Bolívar was a Venezuelan aristocrat who inherited estates and mines.
A no less significant response was that of the South American liberator Simón Bolívar, who thought frequently of Humboldt while pursuing down the Andes his dream of a united continent freed from Spanish rule.
You're dead Maths in flux Puffed up Man takes to the air Pictures of perfection Out of the darkness The forgotten father figure The liberator A matter of gravity Jam tomorrow?
Mr Chávez would appropriate the cult for his own ends: he was said to leave an empty chair at meetings, claiming it was occupied by the ghost of the great Liberator.
In China, I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.For most of the 19th century, Latin Americans including their great liberator, Simón Bolívar had drawn inspiration from the American colonists' anti-British revolt.
Yet San Martín is still revered as the liberator in Argentina and Chile, as well as in Peru where Bolívar's eventual triumph would have been impossible without the other man's pioneering invasion.Three years ago John Lynch, a British historian, published an impeccably balanced biography of Bolívar.
For the Palestinians, many of whom had seen Iraq's strongman as a potential liberator (and one who had rewarded the families of the Palestinians' suicide bombers), the abrupt exposure of weakness was a special blow.
"We are here to give flesh, bone, soul, heart and life to the dream of [Simon] Bolivar," declared a starry-eyed Alejandro Toledo, Peru's president, remembering the liberator of South America.
On the first, he made rather general promises; on the second, he sounded a much bolder note as a liberator, democrat and nation-builder, not a conqueror or bully (see article).Whether or not he manages to appease his critics on these points, Mr Bush faces an uphill struggle to achieve his other immediate objective: getting a second resolution through the United Nations Security Council.
A connected museum paints Japan in its wars of 1937-45 as the liberator of Asia, a victim of Western belligerency.
