{"id":6175,"date":"2012-08-06T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T12:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/?p=6175"},"modified":"2012-08-05T21:12:28","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T01:12:28","slug":"simon-bolivar-and-the-independence-of-bolivia-and-ecuador-from-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/simon-bolivar-and-the-independence-of-bolivia-and-ecuador-from-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar and the Independence of Bolivia and Ecuador from Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sim\u00f3n<\/a>This week, Bolivia celebrates its independence on August 6th<\/sup>, and Ecuador on the 10th<\/sup>. While the Spanish colonial empire brought Spanish to the Americas, it was in fact, the decline <\/em>of that empire that really turned Spanish into an international language by creating 20 more Spanish-speaking countries, each of which would contribute to the destiny of the language.<\/p>\n

Both Ecuador and Bolivia shared the same liberator: the Venezuelan Sim\u00f3n Jos\u00e9 Antonio de la Sant\u00edsima Trinidad Bol\u00edvar y Palacios Ponte y Blanco, commonly known as Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar.<\/p>\n

It was in Quito, Ecuador, that the Americas\u2019 very first call for independence was made on August 6, 1809. But this insurgency was repressed in a blood bath two months later. Ecuador was then a province of the vice-royalty of New Granada, which was run from Bogota. The central figure of the war of independence was Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar, who first liberated the province of Venezuela in 1813. It took nine more years to liberate Ecuador, which became formally independent from Spain on May 24, 1822.<\/p>\n

Ecuador was then a province of Great Colombia. The four other provinces were Panama, Peru, Colombia and Venezuela. But as the new country became increasingly ungovernable, Bol\u00edvar assumed dictatorial powers until he had to resign in 1830. On May 13, 1830, Ecuador became formally independent from Gran Colombia<\/em>.<\/p>\n

But at the height of his fame, between 1822 and 1824, Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar played a key role in liberating the province of Upper Peru, as Bolivia was called during colonial times. The vice-royalty of Peru was the last stronghold of Spanish colonialism on the continent and it took the combined efforts of Bol\u00edvar, the Argentines and Peruvian insurgents to break it.<\/p>\n

Upper Peru proclaimed its independence on August 6, 1825. Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar was held in such esteem that it first took the name of the Republic of Bol\u00edvar. But others saw otherwise. Congressman Manuel Mart\u00edn Cruz famously said: \u201cSi de R\u00f3mulo Roma, de Bol\u00edvar Bolivia <\/em>(If from Romulus comes Rome, then from Bol\u00edvar comes Bolivia.)\u201d The name stuck and Bolivia became the republic\u2019s official name on October 3rd<\/sup>, 1825.<\/p>\n

The complete story of how Spain spawned 20 Spanish-speaking countries is told in our new book, The Story of Spanish<\/a><\/span>,<\/span> to be released in April 2013 (St. Martin\u2019s Press).<\/p>\n

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