First of all, I enjoyed very much the readings of this week because I think politicians like Bolivar and also Hugo Chavez are very important if you want to understand what it is happening in South America in this precisely moment. I need to say that Bolivar was a great hero to me, he was loyal to south american people and of course he never gave up to anything in spite of betrayals. He was also a very smart person because he knew lots of things from many countries especially from the continents like North America and Europe, the first was the most important to him because he was always saying that countries from South America should follow the U.S. The most important things that I personally admire from Simon Bolivar were that he was a true leader, a believer in democracy and that he always wanted to help the poor and slaves.

On the other hand, I will talk about the main differences between Hugo Chavez and Simon Bolivar I think these ideas are a little bit critical but also necessary to understand these texts. Firstly, Simon Bolivar used to admired the U.S. while Hugo Chavez was always critiquing and fighting with politicians from this country especially with George W. Bush (now that I can remember). Secondly, Chavez was a loyal and true follower of Simon Bolivar he used to mention him in every speech when he was speaking to people from Venezuela. A very important one is that Simon Bolivar was in favour of democracy and neoliberalism but if we compare things when Chavez was president of Venezuela he admired communist countries and also an important critical of this neoliberalism that has characterised many different countries but especially the United States of America.

Ultimately, I think when Chavez was the president of Venezuela in those many many years he used to talk about Simon Bolivar a lot because he knew that people from South America admire this true leader and he wanted to compare himself to Bolivar for this main reason but also because he wanted to be popular in front of the poor saying that he was going to release the people from bad and evil governments so practically he used this venezuelan and military leader to improve his image and rule Venezuelan country for many years (he achieved his goals).