Anita Arnand

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.

He hasn't got much time left.

And it is only a matter of months later that the end of the Liberator occurs.

And the date is December the 17th, 1830.

And you can tell us a little more about his death.

Yes, I mean, sweetly, Marquez has Manuela reading to a dying Bolivar, you know, like this, you know, the final act of somebody who loves him and is faithful to him in a world that has turned completely against him.

But shall I tell you the truth?

Manuela wasn't with him when he died.

She was forced to stay in Bogota.

They were kept apart.

Kept apart.

And they're watching her every move.

And when she received the news of his death, she completely has a breakdown.

Her political, social life, everything was intertwined with Bolivar's.