Anita Arnon

And Bolivar more or less swatting him off saying, I'm really, this is not interesting to me.

It is also not important.

Yeah, exactly.

What we're going to do is we're going to take more territory.

And he's now looking southwards for his ambitions.

In retrospect, yes.

In retrospect, there should have been.

Do you know what?

I'm going to talk about the wars because we're going to go very battle heavy in a minute.

Do you mind if I talk about women for a bit?

A lot of these military campaigns really do owe a lot to the women who fought.

Half of the population was female.

They worked as spies, informers.

Aristocratic women sold their jewelry, emerald, silver, everything to finance this revolution.

Working class women followed the camps as selling supplies, cooking, caring for the wounded.

And there are some really notable ones.

I just want to tell you a little bit about Joanna Azurdu de Padilla.

And I hope I've said that right because she's amazing.

She's this mother of five who rides into battle alongside her husband in now what is Bolivia.

She's wounded in combat.