Editorial Unimagdalena

Description in English: This is a controversial book aimed at refuting the slanderers of the Liberator Simón Bolívar. It is the posthumous work of the recently deceased Cuban historian Jorge Ibarra Cuesta. In "With Simón Bolívar, between Escila and Caribdis", the author aims to vindicate the Liberator from the attacks of certain historiography, clarifying the historical truth about two controversial aspects related to the life of the founder of Colombia: the arrest of Francisco de Miranda in 1812 and the Decree of War to the Death proclaimed the following year. Readers will find the results of Jorge Ibarra's intellectual effort and the conclusions he reached in his thorough historiographical inquiries, following the maxim with which he concludes epigraph II of this work: 'Historians cannot depend on feelings, but primarily on reason to reconstruct the past.' The author dismantles the fallacies woven by the enemies of the Liberator, both old and new.