Anita Arnon
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He sidelines Santander.
No, it's not violent.
He just sends him off.
He sends him to a diplomatic posting in Washington and says, get out.
I can't be arguing with you anymore.
Go away.
And so all of these visions of Santander go with him pretty much.
He sidelines him.
And everyone who believed like Santander did, that this is going to be a federation.
This is not a place of tyranny.
That's not what happens.
That isn't what happens.
And it becomes, and we'll go into this in the next episode, the 1820s will read like a timeline of tyranny from this man who had vowed that no tyrant would ever rule South America.
He assumes dictatorial powers over Gran Colombia.
He suspends the constitution.
He centralizes authority.
He governs by decree.
And while he keeps saying this is just temporary,
you know, we need to do this right now to save the Republic.
It is exactly the kind of tyranny that he had once fought against.