Antonio Lopez De Santa Anna Analysis

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Something must be said for a man who was accepted as a leader to a society and to a nation 11 different times in just under twenty-five years. Turning a blind eye to how Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna treated them in the past, he was able to charismatically persuade the Mexican people to follow him time and time again. While his reputation, to this day, labels him as a villain and there is an abundant amount of undesirable history about him, rather than optimistic. There must have been something about Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna that kept the Mexican and even Texan people going back to him for more leadership. Serving in the Spanish army and swiftly rising to colonel, but the age of 26, Santa Anna’s early career led him down a path many believed would be positive and that he would help in the development of an amazing nation. Adapting to every situation that was thrown his way, by either convincing other’s to do his dirty work or simply converting to the other side when the outcome didn’t appear to go his way. Santa Anna proved to be a successful leader, just in the number of followers that flocked to him no matter how he previously treated them. It would seem that only a purely great leader or one that struck fear in others would have had this effect on so many for numerous years. Santa Anna was described as being “hollow to …show more content…
Being labeled as a hero Tampico, losing his legs in the Pastry War, were not enough to keep himself in the good graces of his people. Santa Anna seemed to be a very self-absorbed man going too far at times, for example hosting a military burial for his amputated leg. Often acting on purely selfish motives, he led Mexico down several different destructive paths. The Battle of the Alamo being one led by Santa Anna’s motives based on humiliation instead of accepting defeat turned what was his own people against
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