Although this effort came to naught, one of his most celebrated manifestos was composed there: the "Letter from Jamaica. There he found an untapped reservoir of raw material and manpower. It was to be composed of Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador and to be governed by a president appointed for life and by an aristocracy made up of the patriots who had fought for their freedom. The Colombian Republic was proclaimed in December But his imperial dreams had grown. Sucre, whom he left to terminate the campaign, inflicted a crushing defeat on the Spanish at Ayacucho in December The fight for independence had been won.
He was president of Colombia, dictator of Peru, and president of the newly created Bolivia, a region which had been called Upper Peru in colonial times and had once belonged to the Viceroyalty of La Plata. He had another plan for the countries he had liberated—Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia; he wanted to unite them in a Federation of the Andes, with himself as president and with the Bolivian constitution as the permanent basis of government.
This project also failed. He gained a temporary reconciliation and called a new constituent assembly together in , but its deliberations did not agree with his autocratic ideas, and he assumed the dictatorship once more. On Sept. Both Bolivia and Venezuela officially, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela are named after Bolivar, as are the currencies of both nations the Bolivian boliviano and the Venezuelan bolivar.
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