Anita Arnon
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Any American who supported Spain will be executed.
This is total war.
There is no quarter.
There is no mercy.
And it's not what Miranda believed.
Miranda said, you have to let people give up.
You have to let them raise a white flag.
You have to be magnanimous in victory if you're going to have victory.
Any counter-revolutionary conspirators, Bolivar said, kill them immediately.
when they were fighting, and he said, no, I don't think so.
I don't think that's what we're going to be about.
Miranda says, automatically, if you're born in Spain, we shouldn't kill you.
Whereas Bolivar says, no, there's no place for them in Venezuela.
If they were born in Spain, they can get out.
So, you see this actually quite extreme positioning
of Bolivar.
And if you needed more evidence, does he mean what he says?
After one battle, before he's fled, he orders a cold-blooded execution of around 800 Spanish prisoners.
Bolivar did do that.
A staggering piece of violence.