Anita Arnand

You know, his death effectively kind of ended her life, as it were.

She'd lost her love.

She'd lost her reason to carry on.

And then the years after Bolivar's death, Manuela gets expelled from both Colombia and Ecuador.

The new government of Colombia see her as an enemy.

She's too closely associated with the Bolivar stink.

Ecuador, the leader there, Juan Jose Flores, bans her from the country and makes really explicitly misogynistic references to her masculine character and her vices.

And so she's completely driven out of every place that she has known and fought for.

She settles down in Peru, in Baida, a small coastal town in Peru, and tries to rebuild her life, running this small retail business.

She's importing embroidered cloth.

She becomes his godmother to local children.

But...

Could have ended there.

But you can't keep a feisty woman down because she never stops working for the cause.

So, you know, remember Flores, who's just being appalling about her when he's in power in Ecuador.

She foils plots to spread insurgent propaganda against him.

So she's still loyal to the cause and that these projects post-Spain must succeed.

Money is a constant problem for her.

She has this hacienda outside Quito, but she can't trust the caretaker to send her any income.

She's the landed elite without any money.