Even in the question of resistance to outside control, the picture was equivocal.
He said it would place outside controls on his spending.
Because the Spanish failed to have significant influence in the region, it was more or less independent of outside control.
They need, first, to be restrained, which means outside control.
"Things are liable to change when you allow outside control," he said.
But political power is already under outside control, hidden and duplicitous.
He found his freedom too strong a drug for the mind that had been used to outside control.
This process, though occurring in the brain, is outside personal control.
The army, however, appears to be largely outside civilian control.
The initial violence involved rebels acting on their own outside democratic control.