The Liberator Page #3

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Please leave me alone.

Please leave me alone, sir.

Sorry, Madame.

Excuse me, Madame.

Would you know where l can find Senor

Rodriguez?

l don't know.

Maestro!

Maestro Rodriguez!

Simon!

The noble savage finally wakes up!

lt all started here, Simon.

Here in this market.

-Bye.

-Bye, Madame.

There were a lot of hungry women.

They complained

about the price of bread, right?

That rebellion was the start

of the end of the French monarchy.

But it wasn't a rebellion,

it was a revolution.

A dozen hungry women,

and suddenly everything changed.

There's a struggle that repeats itself

throughout history, Simon.

Over and over again.

Oppressors against the oppressed.

The thing is to know

what side you are on.

Why did you look for me, Maestro?

l want you to choose.

l choose Paris.

l wasted my time with you.

You've become a dilettante.

lf you say so. . .

l suppose l'm an imbecile, right?

Well, then you're going

to give up everything

just because your wife died?

Don't dare to say her name.

l will thank you for that.

Simon, l know it hurts.

But now you're free

of sentimental commitments.

Free?

Can you hear what you're saying?

l feel like l'm condemned to pain

day after day, and you call it free?

You abandoned your country

when we needed you the most.

Do you think Jefferson would have

become a useless piece of crap

just for a woman?

Just for a woman?

Just for a woman?

How insolent!

There was a time

they paid you to teach me.

They paid you well.

l am no longer a child, get it?

And you have no right

to impose your deliriums on me.

l feel sorry for you, Simon.

You're so poor that the only thing

you have is money.

Let's go!

l chose which side to be on.

Then you f***ed up.

-General Miranda!

-Stop!

Who are you?

l asked you who you are!

l am Simon Bolivar.

From Caracas, sir.

l don't know you.

But l know about you, General.

What do you know about me?

l know that you fought

with Napoleon and Washington.

l know that you've fought for liberty

all over the world.

You're a hero, General.

l came to ask you to return

to South America.

To lead our revolution.

The problem, young man,

is that there are many factions

in South America --

the whites, the Creoles,

the indians, the browns, the blacks.

And none of them trust each other.

We're too divided

to bring down an empire.

What do you know about war?

l know it costs money, General.

lt's first intelligent thing

you've said up to now.

This will cover your personal costs.

English money?

lt's my money.

What do you get from all this?

l get to see my country free.

And l want to be part of the fight.

General, the Spanish rearguard

is escaping through the swamp.

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