Bolívar's Jamaica Letter
1815 · Event
Twice defeated and twice exiled, Bolívar writes from Kingston the most famous document of the independence era: an analysis of why the revolutions had failed, a prophecy of the republics to come — startlingly accurate, country by country — and a vow that Spain cannot win. Within two years he is back, and this time he doesn't stop.
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