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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Para ningún historiador es fácil tratar el tema de Simón Bolívar. No es sencillo aproximarse a él con ánimo desprevenido e imparcial y, por otro lado, quien lo quiera utilizar para fines políticos encontrará en sus múltiples escritos la fuente para sustentar sus propias tesis. Este volumen agrupa dos documentos que informan sobre el tema. No son, pues, páginas que lleven el sello de la imparcialidad, pero tampoco se soslayan al estudiar el tema de la dictadura bolivariana.

Durante los siglos XVI y XVII, gran parte de la Real Audiencia de Quito es un territorio de frontera. En la mitad septentrional, la autoridad de los funcionarios coloniales se limita a los valles serranos y solo en algunas ocasiones se extiende hacia el territorio situado en los contrafuertes andinos. Aunque la población de Quito no se encuentra directamente amenazada por los indígenas hostiles, a uno y otro lado de la ciudad, tanto al este como al oeste, es posible encontrar, apenas a un par de jornadas, grupos indígenas hostiles, denominados "indios de guerra" en los documentos...