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Simón Bolívar, byname The Liberator or Spanish El Libertador, (born July 24, 1783, Caracas, Venezuela, New Granada [now in Venezuela]—died December 17, 1830, near Santa Marta, Colombia), Venezuelan soldier and statesman who led the revolutions against Spanish rule in the Viceroyalty of New Granada. He was president of Gran Colombia (1819–30) and dictator of Peru (1823–26). The son of a Venezuelan aristocrat of Spanish descent, Bolívar was born to wealth and position. His fa...

New York, Feb 16 (EFE).- The Hispanic Society of New York, which houses the largest collection of Spanish and Hispanic art outside Spain, launched Wednesday a months-long exhibition of works by Goya, Velazquez, Zurbaran and El Greco, among other artists. The company, which since 2017 has been closed at its New York headquarters for works …

Catherine and the Baroness The only character who actually dies in Disney’s Cruella is the sweet, good servant, Catherine, who consents to raise Cruella – condemned to death by her birth mother, the grotesquely unfeeling Baroness De Vil – as her own daughter. Cruella and the Baroness shall dance a burlesque that plays out to the morbid rhythm of an eternal melody. Similarly in Peru since even the time of Spanish dominion a macabre masquerade has been enacted between conservatives and lib...

Join In 2021, The Saturday Evening Post celebrates 200 years since the publication’s first edition rolled off the press. Since 1821, the Post has chronicled America’s growth and change — and my how it has changed in that time. Two centuries of political and cultural shifts, technological advancement, and artistic innovation can be difficult to put into context. What was the United States like when the Post first went to print in 1821? America was watched over by its fifth president, J...