Simón Bolívar

Not really doing anything.

And he lands in his home country, kisses the ground, and is expecting to have this hero's welcome, standing at the statue of Simon Bolivar, and is instead stoned to death by his own people.

This was honestly a brutal scene.

I think the final moment is this old woman who is like, you would have killed my grandson and then smashes his head with a rock in a really viscerally uncomfortable moment.

And this has sent Delcy Rodriguez into an uncomfortable situation where she's had to go into campaign mode.

She held a rally in the city of Carabobo, which is significant because the Battle of Carabobo was where Simón Bolívar defeated the Spanish colonial forces for a decisive victory.

in a decisive battle.

So it's sort of symbolic, but the Chavistas bust in a lot of their supporters from the outside, which created a lot of negative media.

The region has seen countless revolutions from the revolution of the Haitian slaves against French rule in 1791 to the wars of independence against Spanish colonialism in the early 19th century.

And now, 210 years ago, a guy called Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar Palacios Ponte y Blanco, also known as Simón Bolívar, he led the masses of what was then known as the Viceroyalty of New Granada in a war of independence against Spanish colonialism.

Now, Bolívar, he was known as El Libertador, the liberator.

And he was an earnest bourgeois revolutionary.

He fought alongside slaves, alongside poor peasants, to liberate the territory that now encompasses Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia.

And when he grew up, he wanted to be a baseball player.

But instead, like many of the rest of his generation, he joined the army.

Now Chávez, he admired Simón Bolívar from a very young age.

And that was a very interesting moment, not only for Venezuela, but for the global south, I would say for Latin America specifically.

Because Chávez, regardless of what everyone can think about, he led this social process that not only vindicates his own anti-colonial tradition, By renewing the thought of Simón Bolívar, the struggle for independence, for the unity of the Latin American nation, and the struggle as well for social justice, but also recover the people's historical struggle during the 20th century against the U.S.

imperialism or any kind of imperialism.

Under the leadership of these men, Hugo Chávez, a Latin American grassroots process challenged that neoliberal

Eh, la Universidad Nacional de Colombia es una universidad muy grande y el campus tiene la forma de un búho.

¿Pueden ustedes creerlo? Simón Bolívar era masón y también, eh, fue masón Juárez en México.

Sin embargo, no existe prueba de que haya un gobierno masónico mundial.

Lo que sí es real es que han influenciado, han influenciado los países, han influenciado las revoluciones y tienen conocimientos reservados.

Incluso hizo una, la última que hace es sobre una sociedad secreta y ahí salen varios de esos símbolos.

Dicen que él conocía las sociedades secretas y que antes de morir, porque fue su última película, quiso mostrarle al mundo lo que él había visto.

¿Qué piensa de estos símbolos que aparecen en el cine y la televisión? ¿Qué otras personas conoce usted que pueda decir que ya no están, que fallecieron, porque lo puede decir, que fueron masones aparte de Bolívar, Santander, Chespirito, Cantinflas?

Mira, el cine, el cine está lleno de, de masonería, eh, y, y a veces de manera muy sutil y otras de manera muy abierta, ¿no? En, en, en Ojos bien cerrados...