He was pretty close to Jefferson and the rest, with the exception that he supported the gradual liberation of slaves by making sure the children and granchildren of then current slaves to be educated as any other free person so they would not be unprotected, as it happened in many instances.
Bolivar was a classical liberal influenced by France and the US. He attempted to introduce first a federal system, but felt it failed due to the people's lack of civic customs and self-governance giving as result provinces that easily negotiated with or surrended to the Spanish crown, disorganized militias with little to no training nor organization against a full-on professional armed forces and politicians either attempting to introduce far too abstract and impractical ideas or tried to get as much profit out of it as they could.
Basically this led to Bolivar becoming a bit more conservative in his political outlook considering Federal Liberalism "too perfect for the Spanish America", finding himself forced supporting a strong central parlamentary government and increasing more desperate measures as Gran Colombia fell apart, even having himself forced to be named "President For Life" since politicians were convinced that if he named himself Emperor then there could be a chance.
It's more of a tragic George Washigton, I think. A better Che Guevara analogue would be Francisco de Miranda
Venezuela and Colombia as a strong personality cult about him. The main street and main square of all towns in Venezuela are traditionally named after Bolívar and all governments have used out of context quotes to justify some of their more cintroversial actions.
