At the height of his glory in the mid-1820s, Simón Bolívar was simultaneously liberator-president of Greater Colombia (which then included what are today Venezuela, Panama and Ecuador), dictator of ...

Deep into Marie Arana’s wonderful new biography of Simón Bolívar, “the George Washington of South America,” there’s a deliciously unexpected pause in the action. It’s 1816, and Bolívar has set sail ...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is creating a commission to exhume the body of Simon Bolivar — the 19th century independence hero of South America. Chavez hopes of prove the liberator didn't die of ...

Yale University Press, $35, 350 pages, illus. REVIEWED BY JOSEPH C. GOULDEN Several Sundays ago, the New York Times published a photograph that was at once humorous (unwittingly, to be sure) and ...