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It is widely considered the best single-volume book to quickly understand the country’s soul and struggles.

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He created Gran Colombia: a super-nation from Panama to Venezuela to Ecuador. It was a beautiful, impossible idea. Bolívar said, “It is harder to maintain a republic than to win a war.” He was right. The regions did not love each other. The mountains did not love the coast. Venezuela and Ecuador wanted out. By 1830, Bolívar was dying of tuberculosis, exiled in spirit, and Gran Colombia was dead. He muttered on his deathbed: “America is ungovernable… those who serve the revolution plough the sea.” Historia minima de Colombia