Bolivarianism in Mexico

Abstract

On March 13, 1824, the Mexican Congress, headed by Servando Teresa de Mier, proposed the extension of citizenship to Simón Bolívar. Five days later the liberationist became a Mexican citizen. The Venezuelan historian, Tomás Straka analyzes in this article the meaning of this event and its impacts upon Mexican culture, in which Bolivarian Latin-American thinking has always played an outstanding role, as shown in the works of two of its greatest thinkers: José Vasconcelos and Leopoldo Zea.