In 1807, Bolívar returned to Venezuela and promoted Venezuelan independence to other wealthy creoles. From 1803 to 1805, Bolívar embarked on a Grand Tour that ended in Rome, where he swore to end the Spanish rule in the Americas. While living in Madrid from 1800 to 1802, he was introduced to Enlightenment philosophy and married María Teresa Rodríguez del Toro y Alaysa, who died in Venezuela from yellow fever in 1803. Bolívar was educated abroad and lived in Spain, as was common for men of upper-class families in his day. Simón Bolívar was born in Caracas in the Captaincy General of Venezuela into a wealthy family of American-born Spaniards ( criollo), but lost both parents as a child. He is known colloquially as El Libertador, or the Liberator of America. To conclude, it is proposed to understand this process by downplaying the myth of Bolivar.Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar Palacios Ponte y Blanco (24 July 1783 – 17 December 1830) was a Venezuelan military and political leader who led what are currently the countries of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Panama and Bolivia to independence from the Spanish Empire. The article also discusses the use made of the political figure of Bolivar to hide the fact that there was a big change in the structures of the economic system and land ownership. It is argued in this article that these were civil wars of independence from where a new political system emerged and that despite the liberal ideas, it continued with a slavery regime. Independence was presented by the rising nationalism as independence revolutions or revolutionary independence wars. Liberal Atlantic revolutions of the nineteenth century prompted American colonies " choice of political independence. Abstract Between 17 European colonialism was in crisis. Para concluir se plantes entender el proceso restando importancia al mito de Bolívar. Además del uso que se hizo de la figura políticas de Bolívar para soslayar para ocultar que o hubo un gran cambio en las estructuras de la propiedad de la tierra y en el régimen económico. Se sostiene en este artículo que esas independencias fueron guerras civiles de la que surgió un nuevo régimen político que a pesar de las ideas liberales siguió manteniendo un régimen esclavista. Estas fueron presentadas por las nacientes nacionalísimos como revoluciones de independencia o guerras revolucionarias de independencia. Las revoluciones liberales atlánticas del siglo XIX impulsaron la opción de la independencia política de las colonias americanas. Resumen Entre 1780 y 1880 el colonialismo europeo entro en crisis. In conversation with the approaches to the myth of Yolanda Salas de Lecuna, José Carlos Mariátegui, and Manuel Caballero, I conclude that Bolívar and myth operate as important sights of negotiation, antagonism, and the construction of social life. This essay outlines the functions of “el Libertador” in competing discursive constructions by Chavistas, the opposition, and the autonomous political networks that have emerged since the imposition of neoliberal reforms in the 1980s and 1990s. As we see in the case of Bolivarianism, however, myths are also internally complicated. It regulates and informs the relationship of subjects to the normative time of development. It shapes behavior in and the infrastructure of cities. It structures socio-political subjectivity. Against modernist positions that see myth as an element of “false consciousness”, I argue that Bolivarian mythology is productive.
This essay examines the social and political functions of the myth of Simón Bolívar in early twenty-first-century Venezuela.
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