Anita Arnand
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
He is a young, idealistic man who sees that actually the kind of corrupt involvement of Spain in his country and then his entire continent is not good.
It is a one-way stream of wealth.
Yes, he is like every young man.
He has horizons which are quite narrow.
He hasn't had very much life experience.
And so it is very much all couched in all of our wealth, Creoles like himself, is going one way.
But then, you know, to have this vision of actually uniting an entire number of countries in South America and having power and having, you know, some heft.
We've heard that before.
But, you know, he is also corrupted along the way.
He is small minded.
He is paranoid.
He's ruthless.
And is he a racist?
That's the question.
Is he a racist?
But he does emancipate any enslaved people who join the cause.
And he does do that.
From 1816 onwards, he does do that.
But you're right.
He doesn't dismantle the situation.