The Man Who Tried to Unite America

Simón Bolívar did not only seek to free territories from Spanish rule. He imagined a united America, strong enough to resist new forms of power. In this episode, we reconstruct the dream and failure of that continental vision, from the wars of independence to Gran Colombia, the Congress of Panama, disputes with Santander, accusations of authoritarianism, and the project’s final collapse. A story about freedom, ambition, fragmentation, and political solitude. The story of a man who helped break an empire, but could not keep together the continent he helped liberate.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.