Simón Bolívar · Politics

Gran Colombia and the Dream of Unity

Bolívar’s great project of continental union - the federation of Gran Colombia and the 1826 Panama Congress meant to bind the new republics into a league of American states - and the rivalries, distances, and jealousies that pulled it apart even as he built it.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned that Bolívar tried to turn his 1815 vision of American union into fact - through the federation of Gran Colombia and the 1826 Amphictyonic Congress of Panama, a league of republics for common defence and common voice - and that the project collapsed under regional rivalries, so that Bolívar likened the con…

Leads to Immanuel Kant.

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