Bolívar: Una lucha admirable

I know little of Simon Bolivar and less about South America and shame on me for my ignorance. No doubt this series will send me to the history books. In the meantime, Bolivar is an entertaining look at the period. We have all the necessary tropes--treacherous relatives, corrupt officials, wavering revolutionaries, and the honest slaves--plus a beautiful background that serves as setting. The actors are good and we don't have the terrible mugging for the camera we see in telenovelas. The series is certainly entertaining and perhaps it might make you curious to learn.

This is an incredible series of historical fiction, (mostly historical fact), on Simon Bolivar. He is one of my all time heroes as I did a paper on him in college for political sciences. He had charisma, looks, and a magnetic personality. For that, the capitalist forces of old time monarchy in Europe wanted him gone from their guilded lives forever. You can see this, if you don't mind the English subtitles, on Netflix my friends. This is a really great show, full of action, adventure and sex. Enjoy and tell me your thoughts on good ole Simon and his wild and Wiley antics and hudspah. Cheers, Murf

To my understanding, the series appears to have taken a few creative liberties with the actual story, (it was a telenovela after all) but it ultimately remained true to the actual history of Latin America's great liberator Simon Bolivar. I am a student of Latin American History and I certainly studied extensively about Bolivar in college, but I must admit that I never studied much about Simon Bolivar's life as a child or young man, and to my mind, this is where the series really shines in particular. Both of the actors who played Simon Bolivar in his younger years brought a lot of passion and excitement to the character and each helped the viewers relate to Bolivar and understand how he became the man he became. No offense to actor Luis Geronimo Abreu who played Bolivar as an older adult, but I think the director should have stuck with actor Jose Ramon Barreto who played Bolivar as a young man instead of switching actors; since the viewers had already bonded with him as the adult Bolivar during episodes 5-25. In any event, both Maximiliano Gomez Silva, who played Bolivar as a 12-13 year old and Jose Ramon Barreto did a remarkably good job in their portrayals of Bolivar, and there were many other great performances by the supporting cast members; such as Erick Rodriguez, who played Simon Bolivar's mentally disturbed cousin Pablo. I would recommend this series to anyone with a love for history or just as a good bit of drama.

I'm Panamanian and I loved this series!I learned so much about our liberator.I've always thought he was married to Manuela Saénz.I had no idea he had a first wife and fathered a child on his campaign in Peru.Entertaining and informative at the same time!Excellent job as usual Caracol!

I'm a Venezuelan. Loved it so much that I'm re watching it again. Based on the Memoirs of Bolívar's aide de camp Gral O'Leary. So People here who criticize accents etc are ignoring the fact that it is impossible to film in Venezuela nowadays. And both actors playing Bolívar are Venezuelans with same accent. Very entertaining to watch my history classes come to life. Specially in our very dire present political & economical times.