Don Simon Bolivar Letter Summary

Don Simon Bolivar wrote a letter, which is known as La Carta de Jamaica, to an uncertain person but many believe it was the English Governor of Jamaica. The letter was dated September 6, 1815 and confirmed the revolutionary figure’s commitment and determination to rid latin American from the bonds of the Spanish Empire. Throughout his letter, Bolivar criticized spanish colonialism and called for unification and opposition against foreign rule. This was before Argentina, Chile, and Peru were liberated from the Spanish Conquistadores. However, Simon Bolivar was able to free his home country Venezuela from the Spaniards in 1811, but he knew that there was more he can do to help the other countries under Spanish rule. However, Bolivar also understood that uniting such countries could be difficult for many reaso, but th most difficult obstacle Bolivar had to overcome the fact he had been exiled. Banished, yet determined,

According to his letter, the countries would encounter political challenges, as in not having a government at all. Furthermore, as Bolivar outlines in his letter, he was fearful of the political stability in the newly freed countries. Bolivar’s hesitance stemmed for many reasons one of them being the potential that war may have which may cause the country’s political system to be divided by ethnicity, of which he felt would lead to an unsuccessful government. Bolivar encouraged the citizen of countries that he liberated in his letter to “not adopt the best system, but the one most likely to succeed” (). Therefore, Bolivar felt that although theoretically some systems were more morally correct and should be striven for, such system may not have been probable nor efficient at the time and thus the citizen should accept a system that is successful as long as they are free of foreign rule and are finally member of an local autonomous