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Manuela Saenz
Dona Manuela Saenz de Thorne , "Libertadora del Libertador", was the mistress of the South American revolutionary leader Simon Bolivar.
Manuela Saenz was a revolutionary hero of South America. Venezuelan historian Denzil Romero calls her "perhaps the most important woman in Latin American history" and says that she "had more political influence than even Eva Peron."
Life
Manuela was born in Quito, the illegitimate child of the married Spanish nobleman Simon Saenz Vergara (or Saenz y Verega) and Maria Joaquina Aizpuru from Ecuador. Her mother was abandoned by her modest family and young "Manuelita" went to school at the Convent ...
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