Anita Arnand
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Although in your movie version, you look it up, my friend.
You can do what you like.
The army is still with him and they go back and they try and round up conspirators.
A lot of them escape into the night.
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.
Do you want to say what it is?
That's it.
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.