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| | International Simón Bolívar Prize: Simón Bolívar |
 | | Defender of emancipation from colonialism, and standard-bearer of democratic independence, for 15 years he fought on several fronts (political, military and philosophical), liberated Venezuela, Bolivia Colombia, Ecuador and Peru and so affirmed the legitimate need for new sovereign national entities within an independent America. |
 | | In 1808, after seven years of intense intellectual training in Europe, he turned to politics and drew up his first great manifesto, the Cartagena Manifesto, in 1812: Our own disunity, not Spanish arms, made slaves of us. |
 | | In 1813, he was acclaimed and later officiallyproclaimed in Caracas, the Liberator, a title which he strove to merit by working for the unity, cohesion and fraternity of newly liberated nations: We still have to lay the foundations of the social pact which will make this world a nation of republics. |
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