What obstacles did Simon bolivar face while trying to defeat the Spanish?

Simon bolivar lived a short but comprehensive life. History records his extraordinary versatility. He was a revolutionary who freed six contries, an intellectual who argued the problems of national liberation, a general who fought a war of unremitting violence. He inspired extremes of devotion and detestation. Many Spanish Americans wanted him to be their dictator, their king; but some denounced him as a traitor, and others tried to assassinate him. Subsequent generations completed the apotheosis, and continued the controversy.