Simon Bolivar and Latin American Revolutions

Simon Bolivar was a famous person because he led the people of South America to freedom and revolution. The counrty Bolivia is named after Simon Bolivar because he had wiped out the Spanish army and freed the Bolivian people from the Spanish that's why they named the country Bolivia in his honor. He helped fight the Spanish army who had control over south America for more than 500 years all of South America and Central America gained their freedom by the 1900s. Bolivar was fighting for the independence of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Panama, and Bolivia. Simon Bolivar was influenced by the Enlightenment, the French and the Americans gaining freedom and he wanted to reform his own country of Venezuela.