The General Bolivar is waiting in Turbaco, Colombia for his passport to leave. He receives a small pension from the government. He feels free to leave Colombia, the country he liberated. He travels to Cartagena where he is welcomed, but the city is in poor condition from the wars of independence. Bolivar has deliriums about freeing prisoners and dogs being killed. He decides to stay in Cartagena against expectations. He moves to a house in La Popa Hill for better health. He receives news of Sucre's assassination, which deeply saddens him. Events in Venezuela and Bogota are reported to him.