The Liberator Page #4
What's the situation in Caracas?
The royalists are regrouping
outside the city.
Simon, we must pull back.
We should arm
all the people of Caracas.
We don't even have enough weapons for
our own troops.
Make him a tourniquet.
We'll fight them with sticks
and stones if we have to.
Simon, there is news
of a Spanish fleet approaching.
They say it's the largest fleet
ever sent to American territory.
Simon. . .
Many have fallen.
We must pull back.
Fine, send messengers to Caracas,
then.
Tell anyone loyal to us that
the evacuation will start immediately.
-Make it happen. Let's go.
-Let's go.
What kind of shitty cowardice
is this?
You've been given an order. Obey.
l don't agree!
That's giving up.
lt's not giving up.
Because Caracas is the people.
Caracas isn't the houses --
Then we'll go down in history
as cowards, weaklings.
Jose Felix, l demand that you go
to the Spanish garrison
and inform them
that the evacuation will be peaceful.
That's an order, Ribas.
-Yes, sir.
-Let's go.
Go! Go!
Stop. Leave me.
We have to go on, senora.
lt it you?
The Liberator.
My sons. . .
My sons died in this war,
this stupid war.
The Spanish might have oppressed and
robbed us,
but at least we had our homes,
our families.
Senora.
We managed to get a boat.
The royalists accepted to let
our supporters leave peacefully.
So they can rob their homes
without having to clean any blood.
lf you don't go, you'll convert
this exodus in a massacre.
We're lost.
Let's go.
Today we declare our independence.
. . .and our national sovereignty.
Jose Antonio Paez,
l am Simon Bolivar.
The great Liberator.
Today we proclaim the great American
Republic of Colombia.
We're here.
Here's Caracas where every one
of the king's soldiers wait for us.
Bogota.
The seat of the Spanish Crown.
Yes, but they don't know
we are coming.
This is madness.
We will join forces with Santander.
lf we surprise the Spanish
and give them a good punch,
it'll inspire a lot of people.
And more soldiers will join the cause
when they see us win there.
But you forget something.
You have to cross the Andes
in the dead of winter.
Where a goat gets through,
so does an army.
Goats have coats,
but your men don't have shoes.
That's like going to meet death.
l'll give you some spearmen.
But l won't go.
l don't feel like killing myself.
Let's go.
Give yourself to God.
He'll know if He helps you or not.
Push the cannon!
Push!
Get him up!
Get him up!
Simon. . .
We have to give them the burial
they deserve.
They have arrived.
The Spanish garrison is below,
close to the Boyaca bridge.
There's more than 5,000 men.
Heavily armed.
ls there another route to Bogota?
Not at this time of the year.
The river's too high.
Whoever controls the bridge,
controls Bogota.
Whoever controls Bogota,
controls the continent, General.
They're with us.
The old America. . .
buried in this land that we've
come to reclaim.
They're with us.
Millions of humiliated lives
have led to this moment.
All of our ancestors have prayed
for this day to arrive.
Their blood is alive in our blood.
We're not here by accident.
We're here because of destiny.
Ready to fire!
Fire!
Get your weapons ready!
Fire!
Let's go!
Fire!
Fight for our nation!
Push, dammit!
Attack!
Attack!
Take cover!
Long live Bolivar!
Long live Colombia!
Long live America!
lf anything happens to me,
you're second in command.
There's a price on our heads,
and l want you to remember that.
There's a dark plan for the continent,
and whoever defends South America
will have very powerful enemies.
That's not important, Simon.
l will die for the cause,
and you know it.
l know.
-Shall we dance?
-This party is just starting.
For certain.
What did you think of this place?
Everyone says that the General
is an excellent dancer.
At least that's what the women say.
You dance with a special grace.
that compliment with pleasure.
But not tonight.
You need me.
You need me
because l am familiar with the truth.
l know the truth.
And just what is that truth
you know and l don't?
None of your generals
share your dream
of a united South America.
Except Sucre.
What the others want is
to govern their own provinces,
and they will do
whatever is in their power
to sabotage that union.
And how is it
that you know these things?
Because l'm all ears.
Men love to have me around,
but they forget l'm here.
And how can such a beautiful woman go
unnoticed?
That's precisely
what makes me invisible.
Silence!
Silence in the hall!
l didn't accept the presidency
to watch you back off.
For centuries, the Spanish
have kept us weak and divided.
And now we,
and the bloodshed of our people,
are going to do the same?
lf we could unite so many countries
in just one union,
something l personally think
impossible,
l fear that it would concentrate
too much power
in the person of the president.
We cannot change a king
for a dictator!
l would like to remind
the vice-president
that this congress convened
to represent the will of all free men.
And not the interests and aspirations
of groups and societies
that, like you,
want us to break apart.
The people want a union!
We already have sufficient disorder
in Colombia. We don't need more.
What we need is a strong state,
firm, and efficient.
lf not, we run the risk
of becoming prisoners once again,
and of tyranny, despotism,
and foreign control.
Welcome to Palace, Excellency.
Have the list ready
for me in the morning.
They didn't come for me.
They came for you.
He must die tonight!
That way!
Come here.
Look.
There's someone there.
Liberator. . .
Thank you.
You and l have shared
a lot of history.
l'm sorry to see us end up here.
This is the end then?
to death.
And they have put me
between two terrible choices.
lf l allow them to put you to death,
the union will die as well.
And if l pardon you,
it will be you who kills me.
You would eliminate the only man
who dared to tell you the truth?
The truth, Santander?
l'll try one more time to create
Did you pardon Santander?
Tell me it's not true.
lt makes no sense
to send the message to the world
that l'm murdering everyone
who opposes me.
They don't want equality.
They don't want union.
They only look out for themselves
and the ones with power.
Do you think l don't know
what you're saying to me?
You're the president.
You can't have made a pact
with those who have become
enemies of your ideals.
Let me go!
This man claims he know you,
Excellency.
Get your hands off me!
You're doing exactly
what Santander wants.
You're going to surrender
the future of America
in the hands of the man
who tried to kill you,
and who is trying to divide
the country?
Simon, you have come further
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