Simon Bolivar : The Liberator

With other Latin American uprisings occurring Simon Bolivar led the South American independence. Bolivar was a wealthy Creole born in Venezuela but educated in Spain. Influenced by Enlightenment ideas, Bolivar called for independence for all South Americans. He gained firm control of his native Venezuela in 1819. His armies then turned toward Columbia and Ecuador. In the south Jose de San Martin rallied Argentinean forces against Spain. Bolivar and San Martin met in Peru, which became independent along with Upper Peru (Bolivia) in 1824. Although Bolivar was unsuccessful in uniting South Americans into a single nation, he is known as the continent's "liberator."

We all have heard of Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington but, what about Simon Bolivar, Jose De San Martin, and Agustin De Iturbide? They have had just as much as an impact on the modern world as the famous founding fathers of The United States. From 1809 to 1824 independence revolutions raged through Latin America changing the world today with the creoles leading the fight. Despite the racist ideas from the Creoles, they successfully lead the Latin American Revolution because of their motivations to challenge their law, and administrative positions.

Cesar Chavez is extraordinary hard working man who shows great traits for a leader in change. He has inspired millions of Americans and had sacrifice his life for improving working conditions for farmers, which shows great braviness. To this day, he still remains in farmers hearts from his great leadership

Throughout Latin American History there have been several important leaders, but one leader in particular changed Latin American history forever. This particularly important early nineteenth-century leader was named Simón Bolívar. Simón Bolívar as a leader stood out from all the other leaders, because he played a crucial role in Latin American Independence. He was a revolutionary, an intellectual, and a visionary man that made Latin American independence successful during the nineteenth century.

Cesar Chavez was an American labor leader and leader of the civil rights movements. Chavez was in search of justice for his people, especially Mexicans and Latinos. He stands up for these people because he saw how their bosses were with those people. Their bosses were treating them like slaves and not paying them the amount of money they should be getting. Chavez was a victim of that and he saw that no one was making any changes and he took the chance and do justice.

Cesar Chavez, an eighth grade dropout, proves to be a man of courage, honesty and honor. This notable union leader was toughened and prepared for the life ahead of him by his early experience as a migrant laborer. Facing injustices at an early age and commencing childhood as a poor farm worker, Cesar Chavez could have been a man of insignificance. Instead, Cesar never failed to be a loyal leader and strive for justice all while being a passionate worker to live out the American dream. His value for hard work and devotion for the less fortunate are attributes that justify why he is seen as the most important Latino leader who was triumphant in keeping the dream alive.

Cesar Chavez is a well renowned labor leader in American history. César Estrada Chávez was raised by a poor family of migrant farm workers. He had little to no time for school or freetime activities with his peers and experienced many bias racial comments because of his Mexican-American heritage. Despite this, César grew to become a gifted leader who inspired thousands of people to fix their lives and make it better. In the 1960’s César founded the United Farm Workers, an organization that led the members to fight for improved working conditions.

Cesar Chavez is best known for using non-violent methods to fight for the rights of migrant farm workers. It is people like Cesar Chavez that give people hope to continue, regardless of the situation. Cesar Chavez is also remembered for all of his very powerful speeches that made a difference in this world for Mexican-Americans. For instance, in his address to the Commonwealth Club of California, Cesar Chavez used diction and different types of rhetorical appeals and details to help change American history for Hispanics in order for them to gain better pay and working conditions.

“More than by force do they dominate us, by deception” were the words of Latin American revolution leader, Simon Bolivar. The Latin American revolution was a fight for independence from Spain, their mother country. In the colonies people were divided into different social groups. Beginning with the higher-classes the different classes were Peninsulares, Creoles, Mestizos, Mulattos, Indians and lastly slaves. The Creoles, American-born Spaniards, led this revolution for three reasons: desire of political control, to provide protection for their economic interests, and their fear towards social unrest.

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Simon Bolivar, who had a reputation of being a liberator, took center stage. The common folk began to trust his words, as he talked about fighting for the resources that were theirs, ideals taken directly from the American Revolution itself. Also with the power struggle created by the Napoleonic wars, uprisings began. The most prominent of this movement was the uprising in Chuquisaca in 1809, which led to the formation of the Government Juntas. This group focused on taking the power from the Spanish and giving it to the people. Seeing the movement in Bolivia take shape, Latin Nations such as Peru began to provide military support to Bolivian liberators. Surprisingly, America didn’t live up to its reputation, having no negative impact on this revolution. Normally, America had been notorious for backing up the dictators or colonial powers and suppressing the Latin liberators. All in all, the combination of a power struggle brought upon by foreign wars, introduction of revolutionary independence ideals, proper leadership, and foreign aid, the Bolivian revolution was successful in liberating the nation from Spanish Colonial power after 16 years of conflict.

Cesar Chavez is a known historical figure, due to his massive success when he attempted, and seceded, to organize farmers and give them the rights they overall deserved. He made many powerful attacks on those who were in the way of his workers’ goals and his, including boycotting table grapes, signing a contract with 26 major grape growing industries, boosting their pay, having multiple powerful, influential people openly supporting him (such as Robert F. Kennedy) and the way he used very thought-out tactics any and every time when he was faced. Cesar Chavez did not use violence but used more peaceful and assuring pushes, the boycott and his hunger strike are perfect examples. Many people doubted Cesar’s wish of farmers’ rights, because more powerful people had failed to do so, but in the end, Cesar was highly respected and his goal was accomplished. Chavez was an effective leader for three main reasons: Grassroots organizer and believer in equal treatment, self-sacrifice, and tough tactics.

Planning each aspect of the Revolution, he compiled shipments of arms without the knowledge of neither the United States nor Cuban governments. He placed his heart and soul into the organization and preparations of the Revolution without complaint. As the Revolution dawned, he fought with dignity and purpose, serving his followers well into the revolution even after death.

The author of this piece, Masur, was presented with an interesting problem in writing this piece. Unlike the other authors on this Masur was writing in a period in which there were no works that focused comprehensively on the life of Bolivar. The secondary source work that did exist tended to either focus on some aspects of Bolivar’s life to the detriment of others or served as tools to lionize Bolivar into the near deity that the fledgling Venezuela needed. Masur’s goal therefore was to write an account of Bolivar’s life which thoroughly examined each element. He was aided in this by the objectivity and training that came with his European birth and education.

I decided to write this research paper because we were assigned to find an issue or subject within Latin America to write about. One of the most widely known and influential revolutionary figure in the history of Latin America is Ché Guevara. Ché knew how to use his intelligence and judgment in all the circumstances he encountered taking advantage of each moment as if it was a highly intensive chess game he was sincerely