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"All who served the Revolution have plowed the sea" –Simon Bolivar The quotation above most likely reflects the Liberator’s frustrations with __________

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... frustrations with how independence had led to situations where caudillos (authoritarian leaders) rose to power.

Bolivar had wanted a united Spanish America, a great nations, but the wars of independence had tended to result in charismatic military rulers leading their own countries in authoritarian ways -- what we today would call dictators.
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