Anita Arnand

So if his wife hadn't have died in his youth, the woman that he loved completely until he meets Manuela.

If he had been happily ever after supplying Spain, making money, lots of money, not thinking anything broader about colonialism or about the rights and wrongs of having a master race in your country.

have done anything.

He was really wealthy.

He was well off, but he chooses not to stay in that cushion, but to do something else.

Now, does he have a blind spot with people of color?

Inexplicably, he absolutely does, even though he's had this Haitian awakening.

Because if you are trying to do something on such a grand scale, with the size and land mass and number of people,

you know that you are going to need those who hold power in those regions not to stab you in the back and break away.

And that is his utter paranoia.

That's his paranoia with Federation and possibly to give him a little bit of slack, unless you're saying he's an out-and-out racist and is therefore deplorable, which is funny.

We're all arguing on these sides.

But if he is thinking that, then can he afford to alienate them in that way when you are building a new nation, Gran Colombia?

I don't know.

It's just a thought is what I'm saying.

I don't think it's as simple.

Yeah, well, that's true.

I'm not arguing with you about that.

That's true.

Well, it's like the American Revolution in that respect, isn't it, really, for indigenous people?