Anita Arnon

under the pre-Bourbon reforms they were making money.

But what does change here?

Because there has to be a change.

There has to be a catalyst that makes radicals.

That is actually we're going to change the tax system and the trade system so that more profit flows into Spain.

That depletes the pockets and the bank accounts of those families that you relied on to do all the work.

Not only that, you're telling them they're going to have to pay more.

You're also going to tell them that they're not going to have such senior jobs anymore.

So this starts really cheesing off those Creole elites who have been doing all the work.

and so this is something that's going to be running through all this well i mean i have some thoughts on this i have very strong thoughts on this but first you've always been a bolivar girl well no it's not that i just think it's i'm more skeptical i have to say it's not that at all what it is i think you know you can have a man who can do different things at different points in his life and so i think that's why it's important to follow his sort of trajectory his journey if you like to see what the motivations are and how they change him because he is not a

No man is a constant, William.

You know this.

No man is fully formed.

It's through this life story that you perhaps see how his priorities change.

At the end, not going to blow it, but how maybe he looks back upon his own life and sees himself as a success or a failure.

But we'll come to that in a moment.

We were talking about the changes that the Spanish had instituted.

One of the reasons that they needed money

was because of the Peninsular Wars.

Now, let's talk about those for a little while.