Why did the creols lead the fight

Since the establishment of Spanish colonies in Latin America, there had been a rift between the classes of the Creole Elite and the peninsular Spaniards. The Reasons were simple; the Creole Elite were just as educated and capable of holding high esteemed offices in the government and the churches the peninsular Spaniards were, but were held back solely because of where they were born. Creoles were people who were born in the new world and had old world ancestry. Peninsular Spaniards were born in Spain. It did not take long for these two groups of people to separate into casts. As ideas of the Enlightenment swept into the nation, ideas of inalienable rights and equality came into the mind of the Creole Elites. Though there were other causes of revolution in the area, this class rift played part in frustrating the members of the Creole Elite towards action, for example, Simon Bolivar. It created a foundation of tension that helped lead people like Bolivar to liberate Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador and gain the independence of Gran Colombia.
The liberation of Venezuela and Colombia was a war against royalists and patriots, with the peninsular Spaniards almost always falling into the category of Royalist and the Creole people falling in either category, usually depending on their wealth or status. Simon Bolivar grew up a wealthy Creole in an aristocrat family. He was one of the Creoles that read the literature of the Enlightenment and believed whole heartedly that the Latin American people had every right to hold the same offices as the peninsular Spaniards. The Spanish, however, felt that the American soil tainted the blood of the Creoles, making them inept and incapably of holding such positions. Bolivar was an example of an enlightened Creole Elite who socially and politically had to defer to the peninsular Spaniards. Because of this, Bolivar took the stance of many, but not all creoles; that a declaration of independence was the only real freedom for Latin