How Did Latin America Get Its Independence

Latin America: Where Independence does not come Easy
The revolution that took place during the late 18th and 19th century was the Latin America Wars of Independence. These wars led to the creation of many different independent nations in Latin America. Even though they gained independence there was a lot of issues trying to establish who would gain power. This caused a number of obstacles to achieving political stability and economic development. Many leaders from the independence movement had ideas of a representative government, but it was too unorganized because none of the leaders could agree on political tactics. This caused political fragmentation throughout the nations leaving the population worried. Some doubted if the new independence would survive. Political divisions made things impossible. They could not create a unified nation, leaving government unstable due to military coups, foreign intervention, and political turmoil. Politically Latin America was deranged.
It became a complicated struggle between Conservative Centralists and Liberal federalists. Liberals wanted a separation of the church and the state. This disagreement of the position of the church happened almost right after Latin America became independent. They also had a disagreement about the freedom of worship. They wanted to abolish the fueros and save the merchants, small land owners, early capitalists, and intellectuals. Conservatives wanted to do the opposite and break the pattern of the colonial society. They tended to favor centralized government with in the nations modeled after the United States and France. This was mostly directed at great landowners, upper clergy, military, and bureaucratic leaders. For a solid three years Liberals gained control. This lead to a violent outbreak from the conservatives when the Liberals tried to reform and attack the