After President Donald Trump recently ordered the bombing of a Venezuelan fishing boat, claiming — without presenting evidence — the 11 slain occupants were drug-smuggling gang members, the Venezuelan government expressed outrage by invoking the memory of South American revolutionary hero Simón Bolívar (“ US upends its role as the high-seas drug police with a military strike on Venezuelan boat ,” Sept. 8).

Baltimoreans should remember that a life-size bronze bust of Bolívar is located in Bedford Square in our Guilford neighborhood, at the intersection of St. Paul and North Charles streets. It was presented by the Venezuelan government to the citizens of Baltimore in happier “No Kings” times, 1961, and commemorates Bolívar’s liberation of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia fr

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