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The spirit of Alexandre Pétion lived his quest for emancipation from start to finish. The Haitian soldiers integrated Bolivar's army in Upper Peru and had a prominent role in the Battle of Ayacucho.
Pétion righteous fervor led him to send loads of coffee and food to the resistance of the Greek people who fought against the domination of the Turkish Empire. He received political exiles from across the continent, including Colonel Manuel Dorrego Argentina, driven from their land by civil strife in the Rio de la Plata. Correspondence between Bolivar and Pétion showed that the latter refused to accept, as Bolivar wanted to tell the World, that he was the author of liberty in Latin America.
After his trip to Haiti, Simón Bolívar joined the cause of independence, the struggle for equality, strengthening the social content of its program and adding the support of the most neglected. Material support was important, but the ideological contribution of Pétion was decisive: uniting the flags of equality and freedom. The Liberator Simon Bolivar, to pay homage, says in his proclamation to the people of Venezuela, on 22 October 1818, ... "When I lost Venezuela and New Grenada, the island of Haiti received me with hospitality: the magnanimous President Pétion gave me his protection and under his auspices formed an expedition of 300 men comparable in value to the patriotism and virtue of the companions of Leonidas..."
The Haitian leader is a precursor to the cause of emancipation and his egalitarian ideas are the basis for the construction of socialist ideals. ALBA
