Venezuelan hero Bolivar gets blockbuster treatment

Published August 6, 2014 4:01am ET



CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Latin America’s greatest hero is finally getting a big-budget, Hollywood-style epic befitting his towering stature.

Simon Bolivar, who led the liberation of much of South America from the Spanish in the early 19th century, is the subject of “The Liberator,” a two-hour epic that is among the costliest movies ever produced in Latin America.

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