Overview: Examines the afterlives of Simón Bolívar in the Americas, focusing on Venezuela, Colombia, the United States, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Argentina, Mexico, and Cuba.Studies Bolívar as a rich site for queSimón Bolívar is the preeminent symbol of Latin America and the subject of seemingly endless posthumous attention. Interpreted and reinterpreted in biographies, histories, political writings, speeches, and works of art and fiction, he has been a vehicle for public discourse for the past two centuries. Robert T. Conn follows the afterlives of Bolívar across the Americas, tracing his prese
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