Anita Arnand
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1,099 appearances
7 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 10 Jun
Anita Arnand’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He's born in 1784 in a coastal town of Barranquilla in Colombia, the son of a Spanish father and African mother.
So he is a mulatto, mixed race man.
Despite the racism of the time, and there was plenty, this man has charisma and bravery in the bucket load.
And his belief in independence makes him much loved by
All those around him.
So he sees his naval career, which begins in the early 19th century amidst the tumult of the Spanish-American wars of independence, where he serves initially in the Spanish Navy, by the way, before aligning himself with the independence movement.
When he comes out of that, when he embraces this Bolivar vision of independence for our people, you see him rocket through the ranks until ultimately he becomes this key figure in naval forces fighting for independence.
Which Padilla is mainly responsible for fending off.
I mean, we're sort of concentrating on Bolivar in this, who's sort of a landlubber in all his fighting.
But you're right.
Look, tall poppy syndrome is a thing, of course, but there is also the fact that he is now not in the mood to brook any kind of dissent.
Santander has been dispatched, the vice presidency has been cancelled, and Padilla disagrees with this liberator-dictator thing.
thing that he's got in Bolivar, the centralized control.
Padilla is much more aligned with the Santander thinking that regional interests, we should have some autonomy in these states.
They have big disagreements, big falling outs on military strategy and command.
Padilla, who's an experienced naval commander, feels quite disrespected by Bolivar and dismissed by Bolivar.
Yeah, and Padilla demands respect and gets respect from all those who are fighting and see the results of him, you know, sort of fending off any kind of threat from the seas.
And the rift between these two men turns to absolute paranoia because Bolivar believes that he is planning to overturn him.
Right.
And I have to say, that sort of paranoia, which probably is misplaced at the beginning, turns into a reality because Padilla becomes this figurehead or at least this sort of icon for those who do not like what Bolivar is doing.
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