18. 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
19. Economic impacts
Commercial development
Commercial development
❖ Continued economical dependence on west
❖ Foreign loans
❖ Mining and natural resources extraction (indigenous
people)
❖ Haiti: Debt to France - repaid in 1947
20. 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
21. Social Impacts
Bloody wars of Independence
Creoles replaces Spanish
Poor still poor
Social Reforms
Unity
Liberty
Immigration
22. 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.
23. “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
24. Fidel & Raul Castro
Evo Morales
Hugo Chavez
Rafael Correa