Heroes of Venezuela.
Simon Bolivar

He was born in Caracas on July 24, 1783. His parents, faithful to the crown of Spain, belonging to the Venezuelan aristocracy, owners of cocoa plantations and copper mines, exploited by slaves, died when he was still a child (his father, Don Juan Vicente Bolívar in 1786. And his mother, María de la Concepcion Palacios in 1792). Leaving you a great fortune.
Under the care of his uncles, Bolívar received the classes of Simón Rodríguez, a young intellectual very much influenced by the thinkers of the Enlightenment, who taught him liberal values.
In 1797 he entered as a cadet in a militia battalion.

In 1799 Simón Bolívar traveled to Spain as part of his training. In Madrid he met Maria Teresa del Toro, with whom he married in 1802, and from which he widowed shortly after returning to Venezuela.
Bolivar destroyed an empire by freeing peoples and building nations. After the defeat Bolivar is incorporated again with the support of New Granada, starts the campaign called Admirable, started in May 1813, then takes Mérida where he was recognized for the first time as El Libertador, and finished on August 7 of the same year with its grand entrance in Caracas.
LAST PROCLAM OF SIMÓN BOLÍVAR
"Colombians! You have witnessed my efforts to raise freedom where tyranny once reigned. I have worked with disinterest, abandoning my fortune and even my tranquility. I separated from command when I persuaded that you distrusted my detachment. My enemies abused your credulity and trampled what month is most sacred, the reputation of my love of freedom. I have been the victim of my persecutors, who have led me to the doors of the sepulcher. I forgive them.

When disappearing from among you, my affection tells me that I must make the manifestation of my last wishes. I aspire to no other glory than the consolidation of Colombia: everyone must work for the inestimable good of the union. The peoples obeying the current government to free themselves from anarchy. the ministers of the sanctuary directing their prayers to heaven; and the military using their swords in defense of social guarantees.

Colombians: My last votes are for the happiness of the country. If my death contributes to the cessation of the parties and the consolidation of the union, I will calmly go down to the sepulcher.

Hacienda de San Pedro, in Santa Marta, on December 10, 1830. "