Simon Bolivar and Latin American Revolutions

Simon Bolivar was a Venezuelan man, who had led a revolutionary army against Spain and had won Venezuela its independence in 1821. Simon is also known as the liberator of Latin America

He also had won the independence for Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia against Spain. He wanted all the ties between Latin America and Spain to be cut. He thought that it was dumb for them to be controlled by Spain, who was at the time, ruled by a French man (Napoleon's brother). When he had went to Europe, for a time to further his studies, he had learned about people who had new ideas that thought that everyone deserves to be free. It was the Enlightenment. Simon joined the forces of Francisco de Miranda. Even though later on, Miranda had surrendered to Spain, Simon kept going with trying to win Latin America's independence. He had let the countries be free from Spain, which was what he wanted to do all along.