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5.24- The Republic of Bolivar

Revolutions

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Belivar's Pan American Fellowship

Bolivar was not prepared to just hand over the great silver mined of potosi over to a bunch of strangers in buoinos iris. Columbians and peruvians had liberated upper peru, so why should argentinians benefit? Belivar tried to thread this needle by recognizing the old claim of peru to her sister province. But sucre told belivar that this wasn't going to work either,. He also accepted the presidency and the request to write a constitution. By accepting the presidency of bolivia, samon bolivar was now the chief executive of grand columbia, peru and bolivian territory which covered one point five million miles

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