Anita Arnand

Which translates as the liberator of the liberator.

There is another sort of really amazing aspect to this story because people in South America know the story about Manuela saving his life.

But not all of them know that she actually hid some of the conspirators afterwards and lied to protect them because she thought they were misled.

You know, she didn't believe in this sort of wholesale execution and killing.

She sounds quite a woman.

I love her.

Anyway, she was asked, you know, why she saved them later on.

And she said, I want Bolivar to be loved by all the people of Bogota.

I don't want him to be feared as a tyrant.

And she always believed that mercy was an important quality in a leader.

Despite all of this.

Bolivar still remains Bolivar, okay?

He's not good enough for us.

I don't think so either, actually.

He escapes with his life, but he's never the same after this because it's illness, it's fear, it's having come so close to death, it's the weight of all these ideals.

Yeah, he's not old.

Yeah, you're right.

It's the 1830s.

But it really feels like he's had enough by this and he makes this final bitter decision that he's going to step away from power and he's going to go into exile.

But even that, Willie, he basically knows he's dying.