Short answers, pulled from the story.
Simón Bolívar was a Venezuelan military officer and statesman who led the territories that became Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela to independence from the Spanish Empire. He is known as El Libertador, the Liberator of America, a title first given to him by the citizens of Mérida and then by the town council of Caracas on the 14th of October 1813.
Simón Bolívar was born on the 24th of July 1783 in Caracas, capital of the Captaincy General of Venezuela. He was the fourth and youngest child of one of the wealthiest criollo families in the Spanish Americas and lost both parents to tuberculosis as a child.
Simón Bolívar and his allies defeated the Spanish across South America, winning in New Granada in 1819, Venezuela and Panama in 1821, Ecuador in 1822, Peru in 1824, and Bolivia in 1825. A turning point was crossing the Andes to rout the Royalists at the Battle of Boyacá on the 7th of August 1819.
Alexandre Pétion, President of the Republic of Haiti, gave Simón Bolívar money and military supplies after Bolívar pledged to free every slave in the areas he occupied. Bolívar met Pétion on the 2nd of January 1816 during his exile, and afterward declared the emancipation of all slaves in Venezuela.
Simón Bolívar died of tuberculosis on the 17th of December 1830, at the age of 47, at the Quinta de San Pedro Alejandrino near Santa Marta. He had given away or lost his fortune and was waiting for a ship to take him into exile in England when he died.
The nation of Bolivia was named after Simón Bolívar when a congress at Chuquisaca declared the region a country on the 6th of August 1825 and named him president. The currencies of Venezuela and Bolivia, the bolívar and the boliviano, are also named after him, and Venezuela was renamed the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in 1998.