Venezuela, his native land, set up a congress of its own and demanded that he be exiled.

The division of Quito declared itself independent, under the name of the "Republic of the Equator" (Ecuador).

Everywhere the artificial handiwork of the Liberator lay in ruins.

"America is ungovernable.

Those who have served in the revolution have ploughed the sea," was his despairing cry.
Stricken to death, the fallen hero retired to an estate near Santa Marta.