Venezuelan statesman and leader of revolts of South American colonies against Spanish rule, such as the country he founded, Bolivia. He emancipated slaves in the colonies in order to draw them to his cause and to gain supplies from Haiti. He was nicknamed 'the Liberator.'

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Venezuelan statesman and leader of revolts of South American colonies against Spanish rule, such as the country he founded, Bolivia. He emancipated slaves in the colonies in order to draw them to his cause and to gain supplies from Haiti. He was nicknamed 'the Liberator.'