This dramatization depicts the life -- and loves -- of Venezuelan Gen. Simón Bolívar who helped liberate several Latin American countries from Spain.
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60 episodes
In 1819, Gen. Simón Bolívar leads a ragtag army under harsh conditions. Flashbacks reveal his wedding day and his privileged boyhood alongside slaves.
Runtime: 52 minSimón gets an unconventional tutor, who proves to be a kindred spirit. Carlos uses slave Matea as a bargaining chip to get ownership of family property.
Runtime: 52 minSimón is sent to live in Rodríguez's home, where his mind is opened to new ideas. Yearning for freedom, Dionisio plans to escape from the hacienda.
Runtime: 52 minAfter losing his students and attracting suspicion, Rodríguez realizes he must flee. The other members of the cause attempt their heist of the garrison.
Runtime: 52 minJoaquín learns what his fate will be. While learning about his family's cacao production business, Simón makes a strategic bet on a card game.
Runtime: 52 minSimón begins his training at the military academy and meets his instructors, while the rest of his family realize their limits without a Spanish title.
Runtime: 52 minJuan Vicente declares his love for Josefa. The marquess advises Simón on what he must do to secure María Teresa's hand in marriage.
Runtime: 52 minBetween María Antonia's and Matea's childbirths, only one ends well. Simón catches Lorenzo de Ulloa in a lie, and unexpectedly meets the queen of Spain.
Runtime: 52 minSimón reveals his intentions toward María Teresa to her father. When Lorenzo damages the Marquess's reputation, Simón challenges him to a sword fight.
Runtime: 52 minSimón decides to follow María Teresa to La Sierra. But when Delfina tells lies to get him arrested for hurting Lorenzo, he must first evade the police.
Runtime: 52 minDespite Bernardo's misgivings, Simón and María Teresa are married a year later, and set off for Venezuela. On the ship, they meet Caracas's new judge.
Runtime: 52 minAfter arriving in Venezuela, Simón discovers the disastrous mismanagement of the haciendas, forcing him and his sister to ask the new judge for a loan.
Runtime: 52 minWhile rescuing Matea from the violent slaveowner she was sold to, María Teresa contracts a tropical fever. María Antonia finds herself falling in love.
Runtime: 52 minSimón begs Dr. O'Neil to cure María Teresa. Determined to visit his wife in Caracas, Pablo Clemente hops on a horse-and-wagon and takes off.
Runtime: 52 minSimón travels to Madrid, and then on to Paris, where he runs into his old tutor, Rodríguez. Carlos learns of María Antonia and Felipe's romance.
Runtime: 52 minSimón's political views begin to rub his Parisian friends the wrong way, and Rodríguez gives him some frank advice. María Antonia becomes pregnant.
Runtime: 52 minMaría Antonia is forced to say a difficult goodbye. Manuelita is allowed to leave the convent. Simón realizes what his true calling is and returns home.
Runtime: 52 minSimón asks Gen. Miranda to lead an army. María Antonia must decide whether run off with Felipe. Manuelita is sent to live with her uncle, a priest.
Runtime: 52 minSimón forms the Patriotic Society to show the junta the public's demand for independence. Manuelita finds out the stories of those she saw executed.
Runtime: 52 minAfter the victory in Valencia, Simón and Gen. Miranda disagree over what their next move should be. Bad news arrives from overseas. Dionisio returns.
Runtime: 52 minHis assets seized by the Spanish, Simón arrives penniless in Cartagena and joins the New Granada Army. A royalist soldier tries to seduce Manuelita.
Runtime: 52 minDetermined to return to Venezuela and face Gen. Monteverde, Simón leads his army on a bloody journey back to Caracas. A husband is found for Manuelita.
Runtime: 52 minSimón sends Dionisio and Sgt. Luciano D'Elhuyar to Monteverde's camp to propose a prisoner exchange. Manuelita is reunited with painter Rafael.
Runtime: 52 minWhen a Cartegena colonel refuses to give him weapons, Simón resigns and goes to Jamaica. Manuelita devises a plan to free a prominent prisoner of war.
Runtime: 52 minGen. Morillo learns Simón is in Jamaica and puts a price on his head. Manuelita receives an unexpected visit from Fausto, the royalist who seduced her.
Runtime: 52 minSimón tries to convince Gen. Páez, from Venezuela's unfamiliar plains region, to unite their complementary armies. An old flame tracks down Simón.
Runtime: 52 minAs soldiers desert during the plains crossing, Gen. Santander begins to question Simón's decisions. Right before the wedding, Manuelita gets cold feet.
Runtime: 52 minPepita forces Simón to take a hard look at the condition of his soldiers. Santander and Felisa grow closer, to her father's great displeasure.
Runtime: 52 minSimón anxiously waits for Santander to return with much-needed recruits. Felisa's dad spies on Simón's men as they discuss the next route they'll take.
Runtime: 52 minDr. Thorne tries to keep Manuelita on a short leash, and gets in trouble with a loan shark. Simón's army suffers greatly while crossing the mountains.
Runtime: 52 min