Libertador is a biographical film about Simón Bolívar, a Venezuelan military and political leader who played a key role in Latin America's successful struggle for independence from the Spanish Empire. The film depicts Bolívar's life from his early days as a young man to his leadership of rebel forces that helped liberate modern-day Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia from Spanish control in the 1810s and 1820s. It focuses on Bolívar's military campaigns and political struggles to establish new nations and governments in South America during the Wars of Independence.