Hugo Chavez Discovers: President Andrew Jackson Murdered Liberator Simon Bolivar

Ray Walser / July 20, 2010

With great solemnity and in the presence of several cabinet ministers, the tomb of Simon Bolivar (1783–1830), Latin America’s equivalent of George Washington, was opened in Caracas this past week.

“Bolivar is alive. Let us not see him as a dead man and let us not see him as a skeleton. He is like lightning, like a sacred fire,” Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez  proclaimed.

The first question to ask is why this zeal for a new forensic investigation? It is a situation akin to President Obama ordering President Lincoln’s remains exhumed to see if he was actually assassinated by John Wilkes Booth or France’s Nicholas Sarkozy opening Napoleon’s tomb to prove the Emperor was poisoned by the English. It is an action that does little to help the Venezuelan people as they battle economic stagnation, mounting insecurity, and loss of liberty. (more…)