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Anita Arnand

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Empire: World History
357. Liberator of Latin America: Revolutionary Hero Or Dictator? (Part 4)

Although in your movie version, you look it up, my friend.

Empire: World History
357. Liberator of Latin America: Revolutionary Hero Or Dictator? (Part 4)

You can do what you like.

Empire: World History
357. Liberator of Latin America: Revolutionary Hero Or Dictator? (Part 4)

The army is still with him and they go back and they try and round up conspirators.

Empire: World History
357. Liberator of Latin America: Revolutionary Hero Or Dictator? (Part 4)

A lot of them escape into the night.

Empire: World History
357. Liberator of Latin America: Revolutionary Hero Or Dictator? (Part 4)

But it is after this incident that he looks deep into Manuela's eyes and gives her the title that she will be known as for the rest of her life.

Empire: World History
357. Liberator of Latin America: Revolutionary Hero Or Dictator? (Part 4)

Do you want to say what it is?

Empire: World History
357. Liberator of Latin America: Revolutionary Hero Or Dictator? (Part 4)

That's it.

Empire: World History
357. Liberator of Latin America: Revolutionary Hero Or Dictator? (Part 4)

Which translates as the liberator of the liberator.

Empire: World History
357. Liberator of Latin America: Revolutionary Hero Or Dictator? (Part 4)

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

Empire: World History
357. Liberator of Latin America: Revolutionary Hero Or Dictator? (Part 4)

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.

Empire: World History
357. Liberator of Latin America: Revolutionary Hero Or Dictator? (Part 4)

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

Empire: World History
357. Liberator of Latin America: Revolutionary Hero Or Dictator? (Part 4)

She sounds quite a woman.

Empire: World History
357. Liberator of Latin America: Revolutionary Hero Or Dictator? (Part 4)

I love her.

Empire: World History
357. Liberator of Latin America: Revolutionary Hero Or Dictator? (Part 4)

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

Empire: World History
357. Liberator of Latin America: Revolutionary Hero Or Dictator? (Part 4)

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

Empire: World History
357. Liberator of Latin America: Revolutionary Hero Or Dictator? (Part 4)

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

Empire: World History
357. Liberator of Latin America: Revolutionary Hero Or Dictator? (Part 4)

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

Empire: World History
357. Liberator of Latin America: Revolutionary Hero Or Dictator? (Part 4)

Despite all of this.

Empire: World History
357. Liberator of Latin America: Revolutionary Hero Or Dictator? (Part 4)

Bolivar still remains Bolivar, okay?

Empire: World History
357. Liberator of Latin America: Revolutionary Hero Or Dictator? (Part 4)

He's not good enough for us.