Latin America Independence processes about the Independence Revolutions from Mexico to Chile.
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François Dominique Toussaint-Louverture took charge of a slave revolt on
the French side of the island of Hispaniola and led it between 1793 and 1802. -
In the independence of Latin America, as in any complex process, many
causes can be distinguished. -
The independence of Latin America was the historical process of the
rebellion of its inhabitants against Spanish colonial rule and the formation of
independent national states. -
When proclaiming the Sovereign Boards, the
South American Creoles held three theses -
The first Junta de Buenos Aires , organized three military campaigns
to subdue the Spanish forces in the interior. -
The Spanish authorities fiercely repressed the first of the cities to form a
Sovereign Junta. -
The priest Miguel
Hidalgo was placed in
front of the Indians and
peasants and launched,
as we saw, the "cry of
independence" in the
town of Dolores. -
When Fernando VII returned
to the throne in 1814,
patriotic military campaigns
subsisted in Venezuela and
the Río de la Plata. -
When Napoleon invaded Portugal, Juan VI took refuge in Brazil (1807) and
later promoted a legal reform -
Morillo soon resumed control of Venezuela and New Granada. But, in 1817,
Bolívar, Piar, Páez, and other Venezuelan leaders reactivated the war. -
San Martin was not discouraged and
decided to continue with his plans,
only now he first had to liberate
Chile. -
Together with O'Higgins, and with
200,000 pesos that he obtained from
Buenos Aires, San Martín managed to
buy a naval squadron to attack the
Spaniards in Peru by sea. -
Let us remember how the independence of
Guayaquil was proclaimed -
Guatemala with its provinces (Chiapas, Soconusco, El Salvador,
Honduras, Nicaragua, Los Altos, and Costa Rica) declared its independence
from the Spanish Crown -
In their meetings in Guayaquil ,Bolivar, liberator, and
president of Gran Colombia, and San Martin, protector of Peru, talked about what
was missing to complete the freedom of America. -
In 1823, Bolívar was authorized
by the Congress of the Gran
Colombia to take command of
an expedition to Peru. -
On September 23, 1868, the scream of Lares, of independence against
Spain, was produced. The rebellion is crushed in a short time. -
José Martí organizes the
Cuban Revolutionary
Party and looks for the old
leaders of the revolution.
