Jose de San Martin, Simon Bolivar and Toussiant L'Ouverture were all leaders in South America for independence from European colonizers. So leave it to be Nopoleon was NOT a leader in South America.
José Francisco de San Martín y Matorras was a military man and politician whose revolutionary campaigns were decisive for the independence of Argentina, Chile and Peru. He is recognized as one of the Liberators of America for his contribution to the self-determination of a large part of Spanish America.
Simon Bolivar, was a Venezuelan military and politician, founder of the republics of the Great Colombia and Bolivia. He was one of the most outstanding figures of the Spanish-American emancipation against the Spanish Empire. It helped to inspire and concretize decisively the independence of the current Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru and Venezuela.
François Dominique Toussaint-Louverture was a politician and military man, the most important among the leaders of the Haitian Revolution. He became governor of Saint Domingue, which was the name given by the French to Haiti. Part of his legacy was to have laid the foundations for the definitive eradication of slavery in Haiti and subsequently, as a consequence, in the whole world.
