Rise up, Simon, it is no time to die. " Reinvention of the Liberator and official history of Venezuela

Far away from dualistic stances arisen from Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, phenomenon of which the academic and intellectual spheres either do not free themselves, this essays aims considering the remake of an official history in support of a political atypical process - in its first steps- and of a definitely heroicized and idealized leader. It draws on the long-term political national practices and the history of political, cultural and social representations. So it demonstrates how, in Venezuelan case, and from the point of view of a distant past either at the present time, references to the past and especially the bolivarian worship go so far as to comfort a presidential power on which converge a political personalism sui generis (personal powership) and fair exercise of democracy along with reiterated forms of magic realism.