These days, Venezuela can feel like a world away from the Ozarks. But one summer in the late 1940s, it was front and center ...

The Bolivar Police Department reports an increase in vehicle break-ins and thefts in the city and surrounding area.

South America’s great liberator gets the ‘life and times’ treatment. Bolívar is a biographical melodrama liberally documenting the ascent of Venezuelan emancipator Simon Bolívar, who was given the ...

BOLIVAR, Tenn. — Residents gathered in Bolivar to join a special Christmas lights run-walk presented by Jennifer Marcum. Participates started in Pleasant Run Creek Park and moved though a nearby ...

Shortly before he died in 1830, Simón Bolívar asked his doctor, “How will I ever get out of this labyrinth?” Bolívar was South America’s most celebrated independence hero — remembered today as El ...

The Tuscarawas Valley Intermediate School in Bolivar is slated to close at the end of the 2022-2023 school year. The building, which opened in 1928, has been used as a high school and an elementary ...

Deep into Marie Arana’s wonderful new biography of Simón Bolívar, “the George Washington of South America,” there’s a deliciously unexpected pause in the action. It’s 1816, and Bolívar has set sail ...

In the days leading up to Venezuela’s currency reform, which is set for August 20 th, the bolivar has taken yet another deep dive. The chart below shows the bolivar’s free fall and the massive gap ...

Bolívar: American Liberator BY MARIE ARANA. Simon & Schuster, 2013, 544 pp. $35.00. When he died of tuberculosis in 1830, the Venezuelan revolutionary Simón Bolívar -- a military leader and politician ...

Ernesto, a gastronomic entrepreneur in Cumaná, a coastal Venezuelan city facing the Caribbean Sea, initially thought that Venezuela’s new digital bolivar — English translation of “bolivar digital” — ...