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community Also
in this section:  International Maritime University
of Panama (UMIP) cadets in white and
Venezuelan military representatives in green took part in the
ceremonies to honor the memory of the Great Liberator, Simón
Bolívar, on the December 17 anniversary of his 1830 death in
Santa Marta, Colombia
Honoring Bolívar
photos by José F. Ponce  Who's a "Bolivarian?" Within a
few days of its November 1821 independence from Spain Panama threw in
its lot with
Venezuelan-born revolutionary Simón
Bolívar, who after several defeats had
come back to oust the Spaniards from much of South America, and joined
his Gran Colombia. The Bolivarian republics
include Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Panama. Bolívar was a
complicated man and today a lot of Latin Americans with very different
ideas consider themselves Bolivarians
 Plaza Bolívar, the most prominent of several monuments to the Great Liberator of northern South America in the capital
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