William de Rumpel

And his remains are exhumed and transferred to Caracas, Venezuela, where they're interred in the National Pantheon, which is like a sort of Les Invalides for Venezuela, a site reserved for the country's most revered figures.

And Bolivar, controversial today.

Let's discuss in a second how we should look at this man.

And the cross currents in historiography, really, people, the different attitudes people take to him today.

But he is nonetheless, you know, a basic object of national veneration.

He's on the banknotes.

Also, importantly, the subject of one of the great Gabriel García Márquez poems.

The general in his labyrinth is a fictionalized version of Bolivar Manuela.

So she dies in obscurity and poverty.

Many of her possessions were burnt.

She drifts off into obscurity.

But she is remembered by my favorite poet, Pablo Neruda, who writes an elegy for her titled The Unburied Woman of Paita.

which sums up her story.

Oh, the traveller will not find Pahita, sleeping lady.

There is no tongue for an obelisk.

There's no barrier for the flower.

There is no sepulchre for the sacred beauty.

Her name is not preserved in wood or under brutal temple storm.

She went away.

Her essence spread out among the hard core of the desert, and she was lost among sand and boulders.