Hotel Núñez

It was the end. General Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios was leaving forever. He had seized from Spanish dominion an empire five times vaster than Europe, he had led twenty years of wars to keep it free and united, and he had governed it with a firm hand until the week before, but at the time of his departure he didn't even take with him the consolation that he was believed in.

The General in his Labyrinth