the many faces of Simon Bolivar

 Simon "the liberator" Bolivar is a larger than life figure down here in Caracas. Back in the early 1800's he led revolutions that freed Venezuela, Columbia, Peru, and Bolivia. He is also a figure that the ruling party makes great efforts to be close to. The only image more conspicuous than Bolivar is this one:

Seeing as how selfies weren't the thing back in the 1820's there are a variety of images to be found of Simon. On our tour of the city here are a few that we saw.

my favorite- almost a 70's moustache going on.

Che Bolivar

 

This collage was mesmerizing- so many different perspectives, and I swear one of his likenesses looks just like me!

It wasn't all propaganda and portraits though, we also saw a whole bunch of other groovy stuff. For example:

city of Leones

Its not the street art of Brazil- but you can always find something fun to look at in Caracas.