The life of Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar is the tragedy of a great and magnanimous man, whose lack of self-mastery over his own passions ultimately drove him to become the very tyrant he had sworn to defeat. A man who loved deeply but never faithfully, the last mistress whom the liberator cheated was Liberty herself.<\/p>\n
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