We’ve covered conquest, so let’s spend a little time talking about liberation. And when you’re talking Latin American liberation, many think of Simón Bolívar. He’s credited for liberating six Latin American countries (Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Panama) and ended up founding his own kind of empire. Bolívar, the biography, takes on this complicated character, and in the process, sheds some light on some of the most interesting times in Latin American history.
