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Venezuelan revolutionary Simon Bolivar issued three proclamations stating that corruption was the worst crime against the public interest and should be punishable by death. Yet Karl Marx called him a "[f]alsifier, deserter, conspirator, liar, coward, and looter". What's the truth here?

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