Why did Simón Bolívar Betray the Spanish Empire?

Why did Simón Bolívar Betray the Spanish Empire?

Simon Bolivar was born in the capital city of the Captaincy General of Venezuela, Caracas, on July 24, 1783. From birth, Simon was already “a somebody”. The Bolivars were one of the most affluent Creole families in all of the Spanish Americas and thus, Simon had a good start to life from a societal perspective. Though his family circumstances were not ideal, marked by the death of his father and separation from his siblings during his upbringing, overall his childhood has been described by historian John Lynch as “at once privileged and deprived”. The boy was reasonably educated, though always a bit of a trouble maker, and at a young age, he had already stumbled upon an idea that the Spaniards were passionately opposed to - Venezuelan independence.

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[RundfunkerOnline]

4:25 This is incorrect. It was called New Granada, after the Spanish city of Granada. Not New Grenada.

[fadiaz]

In Peru, for the most part, we consider Jose de San Martín as our liberator, as it was San Martín and not Bolivar who declared Peru independent, liberated the capital Lima, and created the Peruvian flag. Simon Bolivar liberated Venezuela, Colombia, Bolivia, and Ecuador. San Martín liberated Argentina, Chile and Peru. They are both equally important in the independence movements of the Spanish South American colonies.

[rachetforsic]

He was also a Freemason, same as the majority of Latin American independence movements

[magneto]

As a Haitian we may be going through so much turmoil but I am proud that our people that came before were so strong on their principles to help everyone gain their freedom😢. Even countries far away like Greece they helped

[geosophik]

Side history: The reason why he traveled to Paris was to meet other Freemasons who were united in liberating the Americas. And he met other members in the United States, sharing ideas before returning to Venezuela. Another member/friend, Jose de San Martin, was in charge of liberating the southern part of the empire: Argentina, Chile and Peru. This is why there are obelisks (a Masonic symbol taken from Egypt) and monuments in key cities in the Americas.

[ImperatorHispania]

Beyond the romanization or demonization of his figure, it is undeniable that he was an important historical figure and with great determination to fulfill his purposes, and it is something that I recognize being Spaniard.🇪🇸

[alejo]

No fue solo Bolivar, hubieron muchos actores en esto metido además de los soldados y los civiles.
Como San Martín, Artigas, O'Higgings, Belgrano

[RCSVirginia]

"Treason doth never prosper; what's the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason."
John Harington, English Poet

This is why Bolivar is El Libertador today in countries throughout Latin America. Had he failed, and the Spanish triumphed, he would be called, if recalled at all, as un traidor.

[Gloriaimperial]

Realmente Bolívar y los llamados libertadores no traicionan al imperio español. Simplemente había un mar en medio, los hispano americanos tenían universidades, tecnología y mucho desarrollo europeo, como las 13 colonias que fundaron USA contra los británicos, en esa misma época revolucionaria, así que se independizaron en una especie de guerra civil, porque muchos hispanos o latinos tenían más esperanza en la administración española, aunque hubiera agotado y completado ya la hispanización allí, que en los libertadores, esas 10 o 12 familias terratenientes de cada república que surgieran, que iban a explotarlos, y luchar entre ellos por el poder, y declarar la guerra a naciones hermanas. Todavía se puede arreglar, y de hecho ya hay 5 países de América Latina entre los 66 con más desarrollo humano del mundo, aunque tengan aún muchos problemas, pero son un mundo moderno: Chile, Uruguay, Panamá, Costa Rica y Argentina. Y Colombia, México y algunos otros están cerca. Lo único que les hace falta es hacer ese salto adelante como China o la India, uniéndose todos los latinos, como hace la Unión Europa con gente mucho más distinta. América Latina unida sería más grande que USA y China juntas, con más recursos naturales y el doble de población que USA, sería la gran superpotencia, pero siempre están enredados en problemas locales y populismos excluyentes. En Europa los socialistas y los derechas no cambian las alianzas entre países, no se insultan. La India ya ha llegado a la cara oculta de la luna con una nave espacial. Me gustaría ver llegar a América Latina con un cohete espacial a Marte e influirnos a todos, como hace USA. Ya nos influyen, con gran literatura, algunas patentes científicas, deportistas, arte. Pero falta más.

[j.c.a]

This is a very limited and partial account of the liberation of LatinoAmerican countries from the Spanish empire. Each country had their own liberators and, for example, General San Martin starting led the same process in the southern half, liberating first Argentina, then with the assistance of O'Higgins and others help liberating Chile, also Bolivia, and then Peru, where he met with Bolivar who did the job in the northern half helped by other local liders.

[victoraguirre]

*Hispanic person with a fairly normal name for the19th century exists*

Anlgo-centric historian: "Such an extravagant name."

[carloscampo]

Medellín was a small town back then.

Bogotá (the actual capital), Cartagena, Popayan, and many others were much larger.

[franciscopickles]

As a Venezuelan I can say that we have a really biased history education, we never hear any bad stuff about Bolívar or why we had to seek for the independence in the first place.

What I can say after actually learning story is that after the independence we went bankrupt, the country was govern by warlords in different zones till Juan Vicente Gómez united the country again in 1923, all the gold produced went to England for like a century.

Bolívar was the libertador of the united kingdom, he helped the British to weaken their biggest threat, and also a huge debt to pay that took decades to pay.

Venezuela was destroyed after the independence.

[IRosamelia]

As a colombiana living in Spain, I reject the official discourse in Latin America which hails Bolívar as a liberator. He was an idealist who squandered all his money paying for militias which destroyed most everything the spaniards had built, leaving nothing but ruin, debt and such weak "republics" which couldn't leverage against USA's imperialism later in the XXth century. Most all of us hispanic latinos, Spain included, would be so much better off today if we had stayed together. Instead we're lucky if we're able to emigrate someplace else; most to the USA but even spaniards usually go elsewhere in Europe if they want to progress. What a disgrace...

[jamzpzz]

As much as I love the content on this channel, I can’t sit back and not express my disappointment in the production of this video after noticing the words and flow are taken straight out of Wikipedia like a script but slightly altered. Sorry but this just seems lazy. I noticed right after you started speaking about Bolivar landing in Charleston. What bothers me the most is that Wikipedia is free and this video is monetized. I hope you guys at least donated to Wikipedia when they asked

[ElBandito]

Napoleon was truly an influential person.

[JIJCrow]

The map of Spanish America is atrocious, New Granada included Venezuela, New Spain ended in Panama, Spanish Peru was its own viceroyalty, along with Rio da la Plata and Hispaniola

[samueldocski]

“4:37-4:43” the tide would change, though in a curious manner, the tide would change…”

Great video as always!

[Volk.Matrinex]

Everytime I see there is an anglosaxon video talking about South American history, and in my case, Venezuela especially, I know I'm in a coin flip scenario. It could be a hit, could be a miss.

This is one of the hits. I know it's not very detailed, but summarized quite well Bolivar's journey. Nice video

[LegendsOfChippylandia]

I learned so much thank you as always❤