Anita Arnon

Silver primarily, more than gold, and agriculture.

The world then and the world now, you wouldn't think of it, but Peru is this kind of money box in South America.

And remember, he's got this patchwork of troops now from Venezuela, Colombia's picked up some Ecuadorians.

Exactly that.

I mean, they are hardened.

The survivors, they are the hardest of the hard.

But if you've got this kind of ragtag army and following, these are people who aren't used to working together.

You know, they haven't before.

So you have this spike in Bolivar stirring speeches and letters talking about unity.

You know, the whole of South America.

Well, they don't naturally work together.

They just don't.

They haven't.

They haven't formed sort of revolutionary forces in tandem.

And he manages to do that.

He does it so well that he manages to maintain momentum.

Remember, this man has been fighting for years now and is still going and that is surprising to his enemy, to the Spanish.

The thing that he has actually in his favour

is that he is a really good planner.

He's meticulous at planning.