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But the land was never unified. It was a thousand small worlds separated by abysses and heat. The first lesson of Colombia is this: geography is destiny, and destiny here is a rebellion against unity.

He created Gran Colombia: a super-nation from Panama to Venezuela to Ecuador. It was a beautiful, impossible idea. Bolívar said, “It is harder to maintain a republic than to win a war.” He was right. The regions did not love each other. The mountains did not love the coast. Venezuela and Ecuador wanted out. By 1830, Bolívar was dying of tuberculosis, exiled in spirit, and Gran Colombia was dead. He muttered on his deathbed: “America is ungovernable… those who serve the revolution plough the sea.” Historia minima de Colombia

: Discusses the dissolution of Gran Colombia and the ensuing decades of civil wars (e.g., the War of the Supremes) driven by the ideological divide between Liberals and Conservatives. But the land was never unified