Simón Bolívar · Politics
Bolívar’s 1815 letter from exile - his diagnosis of why Spanish America’s independence was already inevitable, his portrait of a people caught between two worlds, and his grand vision of continental union, shadowed by his own doubt that it could ever hold.
You learned that in the Carta de Jamaica (1815) Bolívar argued independence was inevitable (the tie to Spain irreparably severed), diagnosed a people kept in political ‘infancy’ and neither Indian nor European, and floated - then doubted - the idea of one American nation. Explain the diagnosis, the identit…
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