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The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.
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Statement of 1829, as quoted in The Great Fear : The Reconquest of Latin America by Latin Americans (1963) by John Gerassi
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[The United States] appears destined by Providence to plague America with miseries in the name of Freedom.
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As quoted in Simón Bolívar : Essays on the Life and Legacy of the Liberator (2008) by David Bushnell and Lester D. Langley, p. 135

 

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