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British volunteers joined Bolivar’s amiy. By the next year he was back on the mainland. Statue Erected He set up the first democratic government in South America and gradually the Spanish withdrew. Independence was assured—though it took another eight years before the Spanish power was finally broken. In Venezuela, in particular, the Jamaica Letter has never been forgotten as a turningpoint in the struggle for independence. And on its 150th anniversary the Venezuelan government presented a statue of Simon Bolivar to the people of Jamaica. Erected in Bolivar Place in Kingston, the statue is shown on a special stamp issued to mark the presentation. The 8d value was chosen as it represents the airmail postage rate from Jamaica to Venezuela.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31304, 25 February 1967, Page 5
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