The Liberator Simón Bolívar y Palacios (1783-1830) shared these aspirations and, since he went to London in 1810, as ambassador of the Caracas Board, he spoke of a confederation of America, according to the British press. In 1814, before the soldiers of the patriot army who arrived in Pamplona after their withdrawal from Venezuelan territory, he proclaimed: "For us, the homeland is America." This is repeated in documents of 1815, especially in his famous "Letter from Jamaica", in which he synthesizes his enormous continental project in search of the unity of the States that would emerge from the emancipatory struggle.
Sooner or later freedom will triumph, he warns him, and explains his dream of a united America. "the largest nation in the world, less for its size and wealth than for its freedom and glory"; union founded on the identity of language, habit and religion, "which links its parts to each other and to the whole". Only union will allow peoples to overcome their weaknesses, he concludes.
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