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I am a great admirer of Simon Bolivar, a true hero who sacrificed everything for an ideal. This series is fantastic in spite of Maduro's comments, one can only admire Bolivar all over again. The wars of independence were atrocious and only a heroic figure like Bolivar - with the education, connection and wealth and resolve to back him-- could have undertaken it. We can only applaud Netflix and Caracol for such an amazing undertaking. The costumes are beautiful, the scenery of Colombia breathtaking, the acting superb and it will help to remind all Americans (North and South ) who Simon Bolivar was. Some reviewers are pedantic. True, Abreu's accent sounds Colombian, but who is to know what Venezuelan accent was two hundred years ago. True, that some battle scenes are not epic, but all 60 episodes are worth watching not once but twice.