Simon Bolivar

Simon Jose Antonio de la Santisima Trinidad Bolivar y Palacios (July 24, 1783 - December 17, 1830) was a South American revolutionary leader.
Credited with leading the fight for independence in what are now the countries of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Panama and Bolivia, he is revered as a hero in these countries and throughout much of the rest of Hispanic America.
Bolivar is known as the George Washington of Hispanic South America. In Spanish he is known as "El Libertador", The Liberator.
He had seen his dream of eventually creating an American Revolution-style federation between all the newly independent republics, with a government ideally set-up solely to recognize and uphold individual rights, succumb to the pressures of particular interests throughout the region, which rejected that model and allegedly had little or no allegiance to classical liberal principles.
Bolivar's many speeches and writings reveal him to be an adherent of limited government, the separation of powers, freedom of religion, property rights, and the rule of law.