Exactly, you are right Steeve and to add...
Much of the South American Freedom would not have taken place had Haiti not provided its help to Simon Bolivar who later turned around and betrayed Haiti.
Unfortunately, Bolivar himslef was racist and held great resentment towards Haiti by having not invited Haiti to the very first American Free Nation Summit that took place at Panama in 1826 which have served as a stigmata on Haiti why most latin people still always fail or tend to forget putting Haiti's flag among the other Latin-American flags.
READ MORE DETAILS haiti-usa.org The other reason why due to the fact after Simon Bolivar had freed the Southern American latin Countries, he then sent his own sword to Petion stating that Petion would outshine the glory of Washington and of course the United States of America did not like this much and influenced Bolivar whom bowed to US pressure to not invite and recognize Haiti as one of the Free Latin-American States.
"Before he sailed again for Venezuela, on 10 April 1816, Bolivar tried to thank Petion.
Petion replied simply that the best thanks he could receive would be the liberation of every all slaves in the Spanish colonies.
And, on July 6, struck off by the liberator on his little press from Les Cayes, a decree by Bolivar...
proclaimed the abolition of slavery in Spanish America.
(Bolivar's decree did not stick.
It was 1846 before slavery finally ceased in Venezuela)."
That is why Columbia, Ecuador, Venezuela carries teh Haitian flag on their flag since the Venezuelan flag itself was made and created in Haiti in Jacmel which in part because of Venezuela that gives birth to the Columbian and Ecuadorian flag later on. Before Bolivar died, his wish was to have all his personal documents he has ever written to be burned and destroyed since most of the contents of his personal journal held great racist views and towards the first black nation and his personal beliefs of support for Slavery.
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