Simon Bolivar: Today a Hero. Yesterday a Tyrant.

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@mygreenfroggy 6 лет назад

Would have been nice to have teachers in school who made history this interesting. Only one in 16 years, and nowhere near this level of information and interest. So sad.

@Biographics 6 лет назад

That is high praise. We have had teachers ask if it was okay to show our videos in class. Toptenz (ru-vid.com/show-UCQ-hpFPF4nOKoKPEAZM_THw) gets a lot of those requests too. We are honored and flattered, of course.

@georgioser9566 6 лет назад

Likely one of the hardest parts of being a teacher is regurgitating the same information over and over. I'd like to believe every teacher starts off this enthusiastic and interesting, but quickly becomes boring as time goes on since they have to repeat the lecture multiple times a day for years.

@nerocyp1321 6 лет назад

Ruth Beaty 8

@millermonsterair 5 лет назад

well, the teachers i had were straight up boring and always acted like monotone drones the entire time. i tended to read ahead of whatever the teacher was teaching a section on because i loved history, but the teachers were just so boring. honestly, i think Simon and crew should be a staple in classrooms all around the globe.

@millermonsterair 5 лет назад

G94 who, me? no, i didnt get along with anyone in school. i had no friends in the school i went to. it was also prior to cellphones being a thing. well, they were a thing, but only rich people had those giant brick phones and i was not one of those rich people. so, no, it wasnt because of talking to friends. i learned more on my own in school than i ever did from any teacher. as a matter of fact, i learn more from just one vid from Simon than i did from any teacher except Mr. Anderson at Live Oak Community High School in Redding California. Mr. A was the only teacher i ever had that actually cared about the kids and wanted to get them prepared for life and college. i will always remember him. he did great things for so many.

@drewpamon 5 лет назад

Actually I would absolutely expect a revolutionary to come from the upper class. The lower classes are too busy wondering where their next meal is coming from. Even in the 60s most hippies were middle class or better.

@Carolbulanger 5 лет назад

Actually, the elites feared an uprise of the "pardos" against them. Think twice before writing.

@midshipman8654 5 лет назад

Carolbulanger that may be a compounding factor, but it is true that most revolutions or rebellions were lead by those of higher social strata seeing as they had the means and connection to create a more stable opposition.

@kylej.whitehead-music309 5 лет назад

Most revolutions are led by wealthy people manipulating the seething resentment of the poor and using it to gain power. Of course, their ideology is almost always proven to be poisonous and the working class (usually significantly larger than it used to be because the successful are driven into poverty) always suffers.

@katinamarie6651 5 лет назад

True. The Myans were getting slaughtered and not fighting back & rich doctor Che Guevara got fed up and told them to fight back.

@msthang5366 5 лет назад

Kyle J. Whitehead - Music sad , but so true.

@HooverLux 6 лет назад

I lived 6 years in Colombia and his name is everywhere, streets, buildings, towns etc, so much of his influence.

@BountyFlamor 5 лет назад

same with Venezuela

@DonVinny 5 лет назад

why would you live in Colombia for 6 years?

@errolmichaelphillips7763 5 лет назад

@@DonVinny Maybe he liked it there. Some of us do.

@mtet88 5 лет назад

@@DonVinny why wouldn't he?

@gregrainey8322 5 лет назад

Vincent Valentin , obviously you have never stepped foot in Colombia and are only familiar with its’ past history and not the Colombia of today!

@ildemaromeroVB 4 года назад

"There is nothing more dangerous than allowing one citizen to be in power for a long time. The people get used to obeying him. And he becomes used to ruling the people; that's where usurpation and tyranny originate." - Simón Bolívar (Congreso de Angostura , 1819) This was 5 years after "La carta de Jaimca".

@SrLx1 4 года назад

Hipocresy, knowing his tyrant dictatorship in Peru (and that in Colombia they prefer Santander...)

@alejandrofinol5709 4 года назад

@@SrLx1 First, it's spelled hypocrisy. Second, in Colombia they didn't preferred Santander. I understand you peruans actually hate Bolivar because he did so many bad things for you like making Peru independent of the spaniards, and you have responded to that with xenophobia and hatred to bolivians and ecuatorians, but stop spreading misinformation because of your mental problems.

@SrLx1 4 года назад

@@alejandrofinol5709 Isn't hipocrisy. Colombians who knows their real story like Santander than Bolivar (and I have contacts of Bogota who knows that "bipartidism" is responsability of Bolívar and his toxic ego, they doesn't like him and prefer Santander (with his imperfection, because venezuela and colombia should be one) as his real liberator of Simon I and his plans in 1828 to be a life president...a dictator who wants to give privileges to the militars and return alcabala tax; also question people of Pasto what they think about Simon after "Masacre de Navidad"). Peruvians aren't xenophobian, really we fell bolivans and ecuatorians like brothers of a unique nation spanish-andean (yeah, sometimes are ultranacionalist who disparage them because they're rebel provinces, but knowing who is the personality of the latino promedio, very prides), and we're receiving venezolans, another brothers of spanish-america, after all, they aren't responsable of the atrocities of their past governments and his geopolitical interest of destroying at the root what he considered a threat to Gran Colombia (but it's natural that peruvians are a bit angry because a portion of them are doing crimes and another has a cult of personality to Bolivar because some ignorance, but it's like the reaction of europeans about muslims migrants).

@alejandrofinol5709 4 года назад

@@SrLx1 The problem with the Santander bias is that it hasn't been actually proven right aside from a vocal minority that has been claimed things without actual evidence: Trying to deny the efforts and battles of Bolivar for the liberation of Colombia because he became a dictator in a momment of extreme mental ilness and distress, ignoring how he knew it was wrong as evidenced by the writings he made in his youth and trying to destroy his figure by showing him as an perpetrator, public enemy and assasin, deplatforming all his work of life into only the bad things he do in his lowest point. I'm not going to comment about Venezuela, since I don't know much about the situation, but thinking that there is a unilateral, “real” side of history is ridiculous and that it is specifically “Libertator bad he was a dictator once” is questionable. Evidently, your “contacts” in Bogota are going to say everything to disprove the almost godly perspective of other Latin American country about him. I personally believe more in the anti-heroic concept of El Libertador en Su Laberinto.

@ma9756140 4 года назад

@@SrLx1 Peru is literally all over the news because of how xenophobic they are, specially against venezuelans so.....

@mikeyohanna1197 5 лет назад

Haiti is the secret friend that Bolivar had that helped him to win the war against Spain... Bolivar wrote letters about Haiti

@unfilteredthoughts2004 5 лет назад

Thanks ppl dont tell all the history

@charlesoneil4459 5 лет назад

Yeah you would now their are 2 shitholes haiti and Venezuela.what a joke lol😭

@chachoulakay1865 5 лет назад

@@charlesoneil4459 Just to prove how ignorant you are. Your brain doesn't deserve a reply,since it can't comprehend what it doesn't understand. You can't get 10 dollars from 5 dollars. In case you don't understand,how much money is Citgo forbidden to release to Venezuela because of US sanctions, how many other countries in the Americas it affects since they can't do business with Venezuela.And with those restrictions,and the seizure of their funds, how amazing would it be, if the capitalists big pockets that were behind didn't interfere and let Socialist prosper, maybe it will be on fair level to judge Venezuela vs Other countries. However when you sabotage it, you can't call it a failure,you can call it MANIPULATION.....

@JG-ef5so 4 года назад

Power.....

@Locktwiste72 4 года назад

Simón Bolivar had another ally - Jean Baptiste Bideau, from the nearby Caribbean island of Saint Lucia. Both Saint Lucia and Venezuela have statue busts of both men.

@grantgoodman8415 2 года назад

It’s insane to me how little coverage this man has in the English academic world. Most resources on him are entirely in Spanish

@stephenwhite5421 5 лет назад

I read portions of his speeches researching a quote of his. "An ignorant people are the blind instrument of their own destruction." It is one if my favorite quotes because it is sooo true!!! The man was highly intelligent and very articulate. Great bio. Wish it had included this speech somewhere.

@captainaffection 5 лет назад

You either die a hero or live long enough to be a villian

@marylouleeman 5 лет назад

@captainaffection 5 лет назад

no what?

@shiflashanga1746 5 лет назад

Pee pee poo poo

@Edax_Royeaux 5 лет назад

Then what did Napoleon die as? Hero? Villain?

@sylvestermutuku5654 5 лет назад

Or be forever known as a sexual predator (It is 2018 after all)

@rtaluy7580 5 лет назад

One Love from HAITI 🇭🇹

@unfilteredthoughts2004 5 лет назад

We Haitians saved south america. Simon isnt telling all the truth of history

@marlondavis1230 5 лет назад

@@unfilteredthoughts2004 Haitians believed they saved everybody. There were other liberators in South America.

@berta4906 5 лет назад

@@marlondavis1230 they didn't save everybody but they were a great influence for other slaves. Nobody did it like they did, they were getting at them slave masters and they did it for 13 years until they got there freedom.

@marlondavis1230 5 лет назад

@@berta4906 there were slaves all over the Caribbean and Latin America rebelling before Haiti did. Haiti were just more successful than others. I don't see your point.

@samentha0330 4 года назад

Chrome Federation Yeah, I totally see where you're coming from. But some people simply can’t give credit where credit is due. And that’s cool everyone is entitled to their views. To deliver a revolution like we did in Haiti, there were a lot of thought and courage that went into it. Yes, we know about other rebellion slaves uprising, and we also get that. And no we’re not the messiah saving everybody, only the bottom line is we had a plan, those men’s had great courage, and they did their thing successfully period. And that’s what happened when they underestimate black excellence🇭🇹✌🏾

@biffyqueen 3 года назад

Read a biography of Bolivar a few years ago. The part that really stood out to me was this incident in Paris, after Napoleon had declared himself Emperor, where Bolivar was at a party and got really drunk. He started loudly proclaiming that Napoleon had sold out much to the chagrined of the rest of the party. After that he was quietly told that he should leave Paris. I like to imagine he was all "FINE! I'm gonna go home and liberate a continent!"

@lmcognitio2049 5 лет назад

Simón Bolivar was hated by whom? The elite who betrayed him and by the enemies he defeated. He was not hated by the people. Actually, he was considered a living legend back then, admired and adored by the peoples of the Latin-American countries he liberated. He was a human being, no human being is perfect. Yet, what he accomplished back then was / is simply Amazing. I drive for 20 minutes and I get tired. This man travelled all over South America on a horse, not to have a relaxing vacation in a beautiful place but to literally fight against enemies (in 472 battles) to liberate countries. Just the horse riding over South America is in itself admirable (during his campaign he rode 123,000 kilometers: 10 times more than Hannibal, three times more than Napoleon, and twice as much as Alexander the Great). His ideals of freedom and equality and his documents (true democracy) are a remarkable work of genius. By the way, one of the reasons the rich Latino-American elites hated him was because he wanted to abolish slavery. He wanted to accomplish a lot more than what a single mortal can accomplish. Liberating 6 South-American countries and trying to reorganize and establish true democracy in a block of countries that lived under Spanish oppression for centuries, with the marked class and cultural (Africans, South-American aborigines, creoles) differences, without the technological resources that we have today was simply too much for a single soul. Simón Bolivar, was without doubt, one of the most important, if not the most relevant figure (leader) of the 19th century. He was a Hero then, he is a hero now and one of the best examples of heroism in the history of human kind. You cannot analyze and understand these historical figures with today’s mentality. You have to understand them in their historical context if you want to be really objective...

@cathihargaden1608 5 лет назад

well said. I just watched that Bolivar serieson netflix and I was well taken aback - that guy was never off a horse running all over theplace - in this age youthink just get on a phone and tell them to behave but oops they didnt have them then it was ALL done on horseback and I think the series was EXCELLENT and, its educated me to know a bit about him. Not forgetting Manuela Saenz!

@RyoKasai25 4 года назад

I mean, the indigineous people had a very good reason to hate him due to the fact that he made sure that they were excluded from society despite them dying for him in the battlefield.

@lmcognitio2049 4 года назад

Simón Bolivar: "The poor indians are truly in a state of lamentable depression. I intend to help them all I can. First as a matter of humanity, second because it is their right and finally because doing good costs nothing and is worth much."

@jgonzalez372 4 года назад

Bravo Thank you.

@christiansanchez7988 4 года назад

Read about the Black Christmas in Pasto, why he was ousted of government and why they tried to kill him several times. You will know why people still hate him. You seem to have a very clinically clean view of him, he did great things, but he was a tyrant.

@natimuru 3 года назад

South America independence has two “Libertadores”.... The General José de San Martín initiated his fight for freedom in 1808. He freed Argentina, lead an entire army through the Andes and proceeded to free Chile and Perú. By the time he reached the north, in 1822, he met Simon Bolivar in a Guayaquil, where they held a meeting which content is a mystery. But after that, the General San Martín stepped down. He is recognized as Argentina’s founding father. The 12 rules he wrote for his daughter Merceditas are a clear and undeniable proof of the nobility of his character. And yet, he finished his days far away from the country he fought to liberate. I totally recommend his biography.

@El_Omar2203 2 года назад

We have in Guayaquil a monument depicting Bolivar and San Martín in their meeting, it's even a taught historical fact as it was during the final days of Guayaquil as an independent province.

@lucario2188 Год назад

Three actually. There was a Peruvian Libertador.

@paologutarra2708 Год назад

@@lucario2188 what? who?

@TheJonnieredeyez 6 лет назад

This channel has become my favorite. Not only from your different channels but all of RU-vid. Please continue the amazing work.

@greymattersgaming5787 4 года назад

Try the inforgraphics it’s just as good

@NuanceBro 2 года назад

At 12:00 you said August 6th 1893. Bolivar would have been dead for over 60 years. You meant 1813

@maedesmond2461 2 года назад

I replayed that part three times, wondering if I misheard it 😅

@stylelearnorigins 2 года назад

Yeah he marched in 1893 with the deadwaljers feom GOT 😂🤣

@kicocol 5 лет назад

I am from Colombia and I have never heard Bolivar´s history so condensated and clearly before. Great video! Thanks a lot!

@fabian5002 4 года назад

Same here

@spartan2867 Год назад

@@fabian5002 quiubo paisanos

@ngusumakofu1 5 лет назад

Who came here after watching Bolivar on Netflix? 🖐

@sultan2389 4 года назад

@Jhon12359 4 года назад

✋🇨🇴

@kyramoonrise9064 4 года назад

With subtitles or in the original language?? 😏

@K2mtp 4 года назад

No but I am about to look it up.

@papasteve215 4 года назад

Bolivar is on Netflix? Cool.

@tomlk9 6 лет назад

It would have been nice to see the involvement of Santander in the life of bolivar as well as the encounter with San Martin overall really good video

@kyomademon453 5 лет назад

Tomas E D'Escrivan C Santander is the true liberator

@eduardvolution 4 года назад

@@kyomademon453 Santander was a traitor full of greed and pride. Stfu

@christianlonginoskanaty6681 4 года назад

Both are traitors and di kheads

@andrerodriguez4132 4 года назад

Indeed santander was a snake

@VictorBriz 2 года назад

Yeah! That will explain why the upper class of the new liberated republic turned against Bolivar, because they don't want to lose their privileges as rich people, now more rich thanks to Santander... Santander and Paez were the initial precursors of the republic collapsing... Also, it will explain how they try to kill bolivar to hold the power.

@Maddie9185 5 лет назад

I’ve been watching a Spanish mini sermon the life of Simon Bolívar. Very interesting men. All said you can’t denied that he was a real patriot who loved his country. He made some mistakes along the way but his intentions were always good.

@PabloMarianoPrieto 6 лет назад

Simon and team, I honestly think this is your best episode of Biographics so far, you had me at the edge of my seat for the whole 23 minutes, and I've studied Simon Bolivar before, but it was never as compelling as this, magnificent work! I'd absolutely love to see you tackling the counterpart of the South American independence by making an episode about Jose de San Martin and his feats (which were contemporary with Bolivar's) and who is also addresses as "El Libertador". Keep up the amazing work!!

@ronaldhalverson1969 5 лет назад

Resorting to a dictatorship to hold a nation together may work in the short term but usually unravels in the long term a nation needs institutions AND consent of the governed to thrive.

@Derplexity 6 лет назад

You should do a video on someone from Ancient China: Confucius, Laozi (both great and influential philosophers), Sun Tzu (war tactician) and Guan Yu (warrior)

@SaltySpark 5 лет назад

You and I both know he needs to do a Lu Bu video

@magnuscritikaleak5045 5 лет назад

@@SaltySpark He needs to do a video on Yue Fei the Song General.

@lunallena5594 5 лет назад

Actually, he sold his vast estates to pay for his military campaigns and to pay the pensions of the widows of his soldiers.

@SimpleBI 4 года назад

I'm sorry, Ana, but this is a big, fat lie... his military campaigns were funded by the people from Colombia, people who donated food, gold, animals, materials, and even gave their children to the cause. Remember, Bolivar lost his first attempt of revolution in Venezuela (~1815) and fled to Colombia, where he led small battles against Spaniards along The Magdalena river basin, where many of Spaniard's towns were located.

@artbelmore2470 5 лет назад

Thanks for filling the void with this documentary. I live in Panama and RU-vid didn’t have any decent biographies of Simon Bolivar. Keep up the good work!

@AEROERGO 5 лет назад

Ohh you should do a video of San Martin too!

@gabrielfernandez5770 5 лет назад

Did you know that bolivar sent an expedition to Florida with the intention to independence one of the oldest Spanish colonies. Actually he founded the florida republic and about 1 year later this republic were dissolved.

@cariganpintalba9498 Год назад

That would make for a really cool movie.

@shirleyc3937 3 года назад

One of the most amazing latino leaders who ever lived!!! El libérador👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

@alexisrivera202 2 года назад

I played this for my world history class and they were enthralled by it! Thanks for the great content.

@electroturi 5 лет назад

I was born and raised in Venezuela by European parents... As a young person in Venezuela it was (and probably even more so nowadays) to come across this type of revealing information about the "great liberator". I thank you for providing the world with this (dare I say partly yours) perspective about Bolivar. I would very much LOVE to know about your sources (books, articles, studies, etc) for me to quench my thirst for knowledge... well, maybe mere curiosity! Thank you!

@bookdragon4622 Год назад

May I ask when you lived in Venezuella? I had a very similar childhood to you, but my parents are American. We had to leave when Chaves died and we moved to Peru but I remember Simon Bolivar being HUGE.

@josebadue 5 лет назад

Why no mention of his mistress, Manuelita Sáenz? She played a very major role in his life.

@consueloluz307 4 года назад

This was going to be my comment as well. Bolivar called Manuelita, who was the real love of his life, the "Liberator of the Liberator". She was a power to be reckoned with, fought sword in hand on the battlefield, negotiated for, spied for and advised Bolivar and saved his life from assassination, risking her own life while being violently attacked defending him. She gave up everything to love him and help him and was scorned by society for it. He did not make provisions for her and after his death she ended up an outcast living in poverty in a small village in northern Peru were she outlived him by 26 years. There is a wonderful biopic on Netflix called Bolivar. In Spanish but with English subtitles and great actors.

@ElTioCaiman 4 года назад

His life partner, Manuelita Saenz, the first American feminist.

@kyramoonrise9064 4 года назад

Tio Caiman “ *First* American feminist”???!! 🤨

@adriixugaming9714 3 года назад

Because this man sadly doesn’t know nothing about him but assumes BS… you can clearly see that he is trying to portray a very negative imagine of this legend

@MonikaPaitl 3 года назад

Thank you for asking for her! Manuela saved his life twice and was an important figure in Bolivar's life!!!!

@triplev1016 5 лет назад

History Teacher: What's so funny Me:Nothing My brain: *_Bolivar of Broken Dreams_*

@1sb3rg34 5 лет назад

Triple V 101 II Broken dreams so grand, sing of his final stand, long live Carolus Brought by soldiers hand, back to the fatherland, long live Carolus Rex

@saetainlatin 5 лет назад

actually "bolivar" is the spanish version of boulevard

@joseanmx1 5 лет назад

@@saetainlatin Actually, Bolívar is a Basque last name which origin, "Bolu" and "Ibar", meant "mill by the riverbank"; Boulevard in Spanish is "Bulevar."

@himnosdecolombia7106 5 лет назад

Can you do one Antonio Nariño a Colombian revolutionary who translated the rights of man from French to Spanish

@cgsucre 5 лет назад

Thank you for being interested in our history, It is weird though to hear Simon Bolivar pronounced as an english name. It would be like saying Jorge Washington.

@ElTioCaiman 4 года назад

Do you mean Jorge Guáchington? :-p

@smferreiro2610 4 года назад

Es una cuestión de "reflejos"... ¿no viste cómo se llama el presentador?

@cgsucre 4 года назад

@@smferreiro2610 Sí, Saimon ja ja ja

@andreslinares6429 4 года назад

As a Venezuelan I can tell you're demonizing Miranda. He was a far more complex character

@FerneyManrique 4 года назад

Miranda deserves himself a chapter. True, a very complex character caught in turmoil.

@zabb70 4 года назад

I was born in Venezuela that’s why I like Simon bolivar so much

@juancana5726 3 года назад

Miranda wasn't a demon, merely a sleazy, opportunitistic thief y pollito (big chicken).

@andreslinares6429 3 года назад

@@zabb70 y algunos de nuestros compatriotas prefieren a Miranda. En mi caso, los entiendo a los dos como personajes complejos en épocas complejas

@AndyGarcia-ch1ci 3 года назад

Im venezuelan too lol

@delgado.adrian160 5 лет назад

Actually, the term "Gran Colombia" was coined in 1863 when New Granada was renamed Colombia with that year's constitution. Before that it was simply called "Colombia"

@henrybismann8745 5 лет назад

man this channel has changed my life, such compelling story telling

@alfrazz1799 5 лет назад

Always informative and wonderfully presented. Thank you!

@cary3022 5 лет назад

Nice job on Bolivar- only suggestion, you might have mentioned the other important women in his life that helped him be the Liberator

@samuelsuarez6972 4 года назад

What? In that age women were oppressed so no that won’t be possible

@jpr.5984 3 года назад

Internut Simon bolivar believed women should be part of the revolution. Women had a great part of the great Colombia revolution, starting with his lover manuelita Saenz she was known as the liberator of the liberator after saving his life during conspirators attempting to kill him..day after he was found standing in front of the village with manuelita with a crowd full of people naming her the liberator of the liberator.

@TheKingtutt01 6 лет назад

love the video :) this is one of my favorite times a day :) top 5 candidates for a future video.... 5. Shaka Zulu 4. Saladin 3. Theodore Roosevelt 2. Davy Crockett 1. Alexander Dumas

@user-db7vy8sf2h 5 лет назад

SHAKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

@janetroberts4359 5 лет назад

TheKingtutt01 which Alexandre Dumas? The black count, a Napoleonic general who was the son of a Caribbean slave and a French noble? Or his son, th3 author of The Count of Monte Christopher?

@sylvestermutuku5654 5 лет назад

BOM BOM BOM BOM BOM., BOM BOM,BOM BOM!!!!!! SHAKA ZULU

@TheKingtutt01 5 лет назад

Janet Roberts both

@vegut 5 лет назад

ohhh saladin!! and his nemesis the lepper king. both are so interesting

@joryjones6808 6 лет назад

If you want to learn more about Simon Bolivar Extra Credits did an excellent series on the el libertador. Also I guess all Mirandas just have to rise up.

@827edwinnrico 5 лет назад

Bolívar wasn’t a Tyrant he just had no way to control people that were not use to freedom other than a monarchy i understand he needed to improvise.

@bobbq8380 3 года назад

I believe he shortly had a dictatorship for emergency powers. Powers to band together the Latin American people that would just not tow the line for a great union. No doubt in my mind at all that Simón Bolívar was a very human, imperfect super HERO. One that truly sought a united states of Latin America!! Long live his dream that lives on in us diverse but united latino/Hispanic American people throughout the USA!!!🇺🇸

@OriginalEbanTube 6 лет назад

The way you present these videos are phenomenal

@eduardoramirezjr4403 5 лет назад

I wish people stop referring Bolivar as a “Latin George Washington”.

@jmchez 5 лет назад

The best thing that happened to the young independent USA was that its military leader was a man of such noble character. Washington admired Cincinattus, the Roman general who gave up power to go back to his farm. In Mexico, the country's liberator, Agustín de Iturbide, quickly crowned himself Emperor. Bolivar also followed the wrong Roman example and declared himself Dictator. No one knows what might have happened had Latin America had a true George Washington.

@titanuranus3095 5 лет назад

I wish more people referred to him as 'Iron Arse'.

@midshipman8654 5 лет назад

jmchez well, at least from the extra credit series on Bolivar, it seemed like much of his dictatorial actions were because he had to rather than wanted two. The South American countries would have collapsed without him. And at the end of his life he tried to abdicate.

@hubertmatos5920 5 лет назад

He was a tyrant...

@diegojesusvielmacarrero9475 5 лет назад

yes,because bolivar is most important.

@edwardthetwentyfifth6462 3 года назад

I am no historian, but this was compelling and seemingly very well researched. Thank you. 🙏🏻 I will definitely look into Bolívar’s life

@timking7372 5 лет назад

Really outstanding summary of a truly great man, thank you!

@henrylares9269 5 лет назад

A lot to cover in 20 minutes, but... very well done! Of course, certain liberties needed to be taken: I wish, for instance, a biography were made of Francisco de Miranda who was, indeed, a much greater man than depicted in this video. His handing over to the Spaniards by an inept young commander (Simon Bolivar) who had just recently lost Venezuela’s most important military garrison (Puerto Cabello) to Spanish forces, remains one of the Liberator’s most controversial actions to date. All in all, a great series for a quick brush up in history. I have subscribed.

@GanjaEnthusiast322 6 лет назад

Can you do Georgy Zhukov, or Newton?

@Biographics 6 лет назад

Zhukov is being written now. Might be a month or two before the video though.

@PattyOflan88 6 лет назад

Ahmed Sami yes yes yes. Screw the math virgin, hit me with that wacky commie that stormed Berlin

@PattyOflan88 6 лет назад

Biographics yessssssssssssss! This comment reply made my day

@GanjaEnthusiast322 5 лет назад

patrick O'flannigan you know who'd also be great? Dwight goddamn Eisenhower

@christelheadington1136 5 лет назад

Ahmed Sami- Actually, his middle name was David.

@gcambron19989 5 лет назад

Subbed, thanks for the hard work amigo!🤗

@marclemieux1030 5 лет назад

Thanks again for a great one. I’ve learned soooo much with Biographics. Better than any classroom and a way better teacher. 👍👍

@Ingcivilcarlos 5 лет назад

Thank you for making this video, it's the first time I hear such a comprehensive and interesting story of Bolivar's enterprise, not even in Venezuelan schools was this teached this well. Venezuela doesn't seem to catch a break. Even from back in those times the people had incredible apathy over who rules them.

@cazt310 6 лет назад

OMG i asked for this!!!! THANK YOU SIMON!!!

@unfilteredthoughts2004 5 лет назад

Thank Haitians as well

@amandadasilva4498 5 лет назад

I really find your videos amazing, enriching & life changing. I am from Guyana (Canadian), & I learn best with storytelling & visuals. This vid particularly helped me understand a peace of my history in the best way I ever have. I look forward to one about my home country. Sincerely, thank you!

@augustortiz 6 лет назад

This is the best channel on RU-vid right now.

@musiclover01ization 3 года назад

Damn, what a great video. Simon Bolivar was a interesting and complicated man.

@MickyBlutube 5 лет назад

Good Lord, fascinating stuff. What a wonderful lesson, thanks!

@doninocencio8153 4 года назад

Sorry, but it's not the complete truth. He never mention the USA interference in LA, the Monroe's Doctrine implemented in 1823, in 1829 Bolivar stated:" “The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty”. for some reason this "historians" are leaving this important fact out of their narrative.

@macdonalddube5189 5 лет назад

Simon you getting exceptionally good at this. Love your work. I think this was my favorite of your bio vidz

@JTCoinRings 4 года назад

I enjoyed the video, thank you for posting.

@esteban20969564 5 лет назад

as a Venezuelan, there were facts you present that i didn't even knew, thank you so much for make this video, is good to see that other people in the world care about this great character of our independence, sadly, history in my country teach us to see Bolivar as the greatest of man with no flaws, but in reality absolute power corrupts absolutely, and that's what happend to Bolivar and Paez. i would love that our republic had a more civilize way of birth, but nonetheless by all the mistakes and achieve he made, we have our republics thanks to him. Sadly the era of dictators and people who don't do nothing when someone speak loud about liberty still haunts my country, 200 years are not enough to change the mentality of my countrymen and womans..

@Cadwaladr 5 лет назад

Now I want to hear the story of Bernardo O'Higgins and the liberation of Chile.

@Perr0u 5 лет назад

You mean San Martin and O'Higgins libertation of Chile.

@xflofyx 5 лет назад

por qué todos los argentinos aman decir que el libertador es san martín? los chilenos no andamos weveando todo el día que el libertador de peru es o'higgins anyway, san martin fue muy importante

@WithRuhi 5 лет назад

Pinochet was the real liberator of Chile

@xflofyx 5 лет назад

fucking otaku

@arusenpai5957 5 лет назад

@@WithRuhi My fascist detector Its over 9000!!! HOLY COW

@sjmcoarch 5 лет назад

I absolutely enjoy your videos... very informative, concise, and on point. For a history lover like me this is a great opportunity. Tnx very much for the efforts.

@richardmiller3922 5 лет назад

Great video Simon. At 53 I had no idea about this line of history, thank you.

@ginarighi7980 5 лет назад

Spending all my school years trying to get to understand Venezuelan history at school.... Bio graphics did the whole job in just some minutes hahaha

@Artur_M. 6 лет назад

Excellent episode, one of the best thus far! You managed to squeeze a lot of Bolivar's insanely complex and interesting biography into it. The only thing I felt it lacked was maybe mentioning Manuela Sáenz, but on the other hand, she could get her own episode one day. However, the person I would love to see covered by you the most is another revolutionary leader - Tadeusz Kościuszko.

@BOBBYP34 2 года назад

Yvette

@Camberampbell 5 лет назад

Gracias! Great piece. I got chills listening to your introduction. My husband is from South America and he was completely shocked that I hadn't heard of Bolivar before.

@Camberampbell 5 лет назад

Btw the way often the way you pronounce things in English sound funny or awkward but your Spanish pronunciation is just painful. "Tom Ass" lol You get an A for effort though 👍

@spshea 3 года назад

Fascinating, thanks for that. Subscribed, this is good stuff.

@MustardseedFaithGrows 4 года назад

Awesome. I have been watching the Netflix series Bolivar. I love history!

@kevinkong6653 4 года назад

That brought me here too haha I cried when his wife died

@MustardseedFaithGrows 4 года назад

Kevin Kong I know right. It’s a pretty intense show.

@MustardseedFaithGrows 4 года назад

Kevin Kong I still wanna know what diseases Tio Carlos and Pablo Clemente had. Well Pablo I can figure out.

@siflex 5 лет назад

Huge fan of Simon Bolivar, I think it would be nice if you also covered Alexander von Humboldt.

@daffyduck1937 5 лет назад

Simon and Company... Love the new background and graphics makes the video seem smooth with your transitions between stories very well done. Till Thursday see ya

@ajwhhis 5 лет назад

I really enjoy your channel. Thoroughly interesting and entertaining. Thank you!

@ignitionfrn2223 3 года назад

1:05 - Chapter 1 - Early life (The unlikeliest revolutionary) 3:55 - Chapter 2 - Return to europe & his solemn vow 5:50 - Chapter 3 - The birth & death of a republic 9:40 - Chapter 4 - The admirable campaign & the 2nd republic 13:50 - Chapter 5 - The letter from jamaica & liberation 18:35 - Chapter 6 - The lonely dictator

@ky-passley4769 5 лет назад

Haiti's is not the only successful slave rebellion in modern history Jamaica also had a successful rebellion.

@unfilteredthoughts2004 5 лет назад

How so jamaica never won its independence the british gave it to you in the 60s and you are still a colony lol

@haitiannationalist5165 5 лет назад

It’s true, but not at Haiti’s level

@Champion2D 6 лет назад

Great video. Thank you.

@beddietv6139 2 года назад

Keep the good work. Very educative

@bryanosborne9059 4 года назад

He liberated 5 countries, including Bolivia, that was named after him. You forgot to mention that.

@nbrace-tl8ku 4 года назад

Actually, I believe he did. He referred to Upper Peru's government being so thankful that they changed the countries name to Bolivia,

@yvettem2235 4 года назад

Love my hero Simon Bolivar!!!!

@MrTony1995 5 лет назад

Please, do the Blas de Lezo biography, the "Medio Hombre", one of the greatest military figures in Spanish history and the man that caused the most disastrous naval defeat in british history

@danielprietog 5 лет назад

¡Blas de Lezo el Teso! Creo que exagero, pero si no es por él, se hablaría inglés en buena parte de Sudamérica.

@cogeunlibro9312 5 лет назад

@@danielprietog una pena, un heroe sin duda, pero debio perder, asi parte sud America serian potencias.

@neolink8197 5 лет назад

@@cogeunlibro9312 Ser colonia inglesa no es una garantia de exito. Preguntale a jamaica, belize, pakistan y muchos otros

@cogeunlibro9312 5 лет назад

@@neolink8197 Comparas Pakistán con Jamaica? 😂😂😂 sabes que estan avanzados en ciencia y tienen bombas nucleares. Analiza tu comentario por favor... El potencial de america del sur en manos anglosajonas hubiese sido otro cuento.

@neolink8197 5 лет назад

@@cogeunlibro9312 Argentina o Brazil tambien pudieran tener armas nucleares si querian. Pakistan a pesar de tener armas nucleares es un pais muy retrasado socialmente donde no hay libertad y experimenta mucha pobreza

@brucesanchez29 4 года назад

Thank you . Keep on making those videos

@DaphneMaerie 2 года назад

Impeccable narration!

@quintenwhyte6660 6 лет назад

Simon Bolivar temporary stayed in Curaçao,a Dutch Caribbean island closed to Venezuelan coast . He met two Curacaoan generals who fought along side during the the Venezuelan War of Independence; Luis Brion, and Manuel Piar. Unfortunately, Piar had a grudge against white criollo due his racial discrimination(Pair had 75% of African roots). Piar formed a small group of men to rise against criollos and wanted , but they were arrested. When Piar was executed by a firing squad, Simón(who was against the execution)wept and said "He derramado mi sangre" or "I've spilled my own blood".

@esteban20969564 5 лет назад

the society of that time was extremely racist and classis. even more than US civil war times. fortunatly that chapter of our history was cast away in the early years of the republic

@vicentelopez00 5 лет назад

Quinten White Piar didn't have 75% of african roots. That is false. His father was a blue eyes sailor from Canary islands and his mother was a "mulata" from Curazao. So, he probably had more than 75% of spanish blood. He had blue eyes and rosy skin. "He derramado mi sangre" was eritten by Francisco Herrera Luque in his historic novel "Piar, caudillo de dos colores". It´s a novel, not history.

@quintenwhyte6660 5 лет назад

@@vicentelopez00 It's indeed shame that some wikipedia article has mixed up infromation for unknown reason. At least, I've just learned an actual source from you. Thanks,Vincente. Question: have you read the book you mentioned?

@vicentelopez00 5 лет назад

Quinten White Yes, I have read that NOVEL (in Spanish, my native language). Piar was shot by order of Bolívar. Simón Bolívar was a psychopath criminal and coward but very intriguing and machiavellian.. It was a revenge. Do you understand spanish? If you do, I could give you more information and the title of some books.

@quintenwhyte6660 5 лет назад

@@vicentelopez00 Claro que si! 👍

@annettefournier9655 6 лет назад

Wow, that was super! Hope a lesson was learned by micromanagers everywhere. So many examples of it throughout history including tecent history 🍎

@angelascension4466 5 лет назад

Wow! You're amazing! It was fun to see a genius at work. Creative, smartly put together and presented by a handsome guy!

@markdilger1288 5 лет назад

Could you guys do a video on Grace O’Malley? The Irish pirate Queen.

@chesterlapointepsmc 6 лет назад

Do a bio on Grand Master Demolay of the knight Templars

@davenakasone 5 лет назад

Good work. I can tell that you put a lot of thought and effort into this video. I think it is competitive with a high budget product and hope that you continue the good work.

@supersupersuper6557 5 лет назад

Fantastic video. It’s great hearing about the great figures of other cultures.

@Joltsu 6 лет назад

Make a video about Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim

@ByzantineCapitalManagement 5 лет назад

George Washington:Today a Hero,Yesterday a Slave Owner.

@ryanharper6391 5 лет назад

i dont think being a slaver alone makes someone a bad person, everyone has their cultural blindspots

@user-db7vy8sf2h 5 лет назад

Simon Bolivar free the slaves before becoming the LIBERTADOR!

@sylvestermutuku5654 5 лет назад

Ryan Harper, thats easy to say if you are on the slave owners side??!!!! But yeah, back then it was acceptable, so we can't judge everything in 2018 eyes. When I was growing up it was ok to "discipline" your wife if she got out of turn, and us kids got a smack every time we messed up.

@Carolbulanger 5 лет назад

Actually, it is not true.

@deprogramm 5 лет назад

except no one denies he was a slave owner. One of his most known trivia facts is that he released slaves when he died.

@papabatsy 5 лет назад

You are shredding these videos mate.

@JorgeSanchez-je4bt 5 лет назад

Thank you for teaching. It opens my view of the world.

@eduardorodriguez550 5 лет назад

There's a series on Netflix "Bolivar" a remarkable story.

@kikearce3661 6 лет назад

You spelled his name wrong! Its Simón Bolívar

@Dawsonsimard13 4 года назад

Wow thank you for all the information, I have always being fascinated by the history of Simon Bolivar, I have many books about his life but not as the way you explain things . Gracias

@kennymos9007 11 месяцев назад

I was thought about him as a child but i didn't know much of what you said in the video. Thank you.

@Rukhage 4 года назад

Hey Simon! Great piece as usual! It would be nice if you did another piece on the other Libertador of South America: Jose de San Martín as he was the other half and was the other side of Bolivar's coin: a career military man who shunned politics and is still considered by a vast majority of South Americans as the father of the continent. I'm going to probably get lambasted by some of my fellow South Americans. Look up the Conference of Guayaquil (where Bolivar and San Martin met together to decide the fate of the continent).

@Manu_509 5 лет назад

You should do a video about Haitian Revolution

@economiacapitalista4382 4 года назад

Emmanuel David Bien-Aimé True! I learned about that during middle school back in Dominican Republic.

@juanbelmonte5389 5 лет назад

Great video!

@laztoth3104 5 лет назад

Channel is great and full of knowledge. I enjoy it very much thank you...

@MsSmileFM 5 лет назад

Really appreciate the will to share your knowledge with the rest of the world , just wanted to state that at 12:00 you say "on August 6th 1893"instead of 1813.