Simon and Ruth's Letters from Afar

We are socialists from Australia who'll be travelling in Europe and South America until Feb 07. We'll be using this blog to keep family, friends, comrades and other interested parties updated on our adventures :)

Friday, October 06, 2006


This very cool potrait of Juana Azurduy De Padilla - a hero of Bolivia´s independence struggle - is in Sucre´s Casa de Libertad, where the initial Bolivian declaration of independence was signed. Simon Bolivar, also a hero of the Bolivian independence, struggle refused to sign the declaration as he believed all the former Spanish colonies should unite.

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