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Posted on: March 31st, 2008
Filed Under: [ Hispanic News ] [ Non-US News ] [ Eye Openers ]
Tags: Colombia, tuberculosis, Venezuela
Depressed, disillusioned and in declining health, Simón Bolívar set sail for Santa Marta, Colombia, on Dec. 1, 1830, asking the ship captain to detour into rough waters in hopes that he might get seasick and purge his ill insides.
It didn’t work.
Bolívar, a leader of the revolution that freed Colombia and its neighbors from Spanish rule, died in Santa Marta 16 days later. ”It was easy to recognize,” reported the attending physician after an autopsy, that he died from tuberculosis.
But Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez — whose devotion to Bolívar knows no bounds — is questioning that verdict and suggesting he was poisoned by oligarchs in neighboring Colombia — his main current foe after the United States.”*
*From: http://www.miamiherald.com
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