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A man in the Spanish colony of Columbia named Bolivar (I forget his first name) led a military coup d'etat of the royal government in the 1820's, and established Gran Columbia. At the time of its independence from Spain it controlled modern day Columbia as well as parts of Panama and Venezuela.

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