What was the impact of the latin american revolutions ?
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IMPACTS
Viñales, Cuba
of theLATIN AMERICAN
REVOLUTIONS
RECAP!
Decline
Haitian Revolution
1791-1804
Toussaints Louverture
“The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty”
Simon Bolivar
San Martin
1819 - 1831
Alabamamaps
Borders fixed after 1850
Inter-American stability
SlaveryAbolished
California TexasConstitutions
British pressure
American - Mexican w
ar
Texas:“Annex us!”
AMERICA S BACKYARD´
Panama City
Banana republics
“Hero”
“Bad guy”
José Martí, Havana
Precious CubaSpain clung on
3 independence wars
Spanish drawing
1896
HAITI
Dessalines
Louverture
Freedom of religion
Economic struggles
First and only successful slave rebellion
All black”“
French land forbidden
Library, Buenos Aires
Culture
Diversity
San Jos , Costa Ricaé
Religious freedom
Education & Health
University of Havana, Cuba
SpainU.S. & Britain
Foreign Impacts
Buckingham Palace, London
Invisible empire
“Spanish America is free, and if we do not mismanage our affairs badly, she is English”. Canning, British
Foreign Secretary
Tax free
Economic impactsCommercial developmentCommercial development
❖ Continued economical dependence on west
❖ Foreign loans
❖ Mining and natural resources extraction (indigenous people)
❖ Haiti: Debt to France - repaid in 1947
Domestic political impacts❖ Leadership: Caudillos replace viceroys
❖ Centralization: Bolivar´s inheritance
❖ Regulate schools, newspapers.
❖ Power instability: liberals, conservatives, military
❖ Tensions: political élite - masses
❖ Fragility: Foreign impact
Social Impacts
Bloody wars of Independence
Creoles replaces Spanish
Poor still poor
Social Reforms
Unity Liberty
Immigration
Long-term impacts❖ Dissatisfaction contributed to creation of socialist
movements which appealed to the masses
❖ Poverty - lack of education
❖ Instability - New revolutions
❖ U.S. support of oppressive regimes
❖ Foreign loans - foreign control
❖ Centralization: Rafael Correa
❖ Realization that colonization is a loosing game.
“It is difficult to maintain them in a prosperous state... It s a burden to ´the mother country” Napoleon III about colonies to British ambassador 1858
“Oops - We colonized again... What now?”Hyperactive officers stationed in Africa and South-East Asia
Fidel & Raul Castro
Evo Morales
Hugo Chavez
Rafael Correa
SLAVERY SPAIN OUT
CUBAN EXCEPTION
Caudillos UNITY