4A—History of Latin America
Caudillos in Spanish America
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I. Simón Bolívar and Independence in South America
Francisco Miranda
José Tomás Boves and the llaneros, 1813-1814
1815, Alexandre Pétion (Haiti)
Gran Colombia (Venezuela+Colombia+Ecuador)
1819, Congress of Angostura
1824, liberation of Peru; José de San Martín
1825, Bolivia established
1830, Ecuador and Venezuela secede from Gran Colombia
II. Legacies of Independence
- Colonial continuities
- Militarization
- Political confusion
- Economic effects
III. Caudillos
- Bolívar as prototype
- Juan Manuel de Rosas (Argentina, 1820-1852)
pampas
Unitarians
1848, Camila O'Gorman+Ladislao Gutierrez
- Antonio López de Santa Anna (Mexico, 1833-1855)
Agustín de Iturbide
hacienda/hacendado