Although the independence movement was based off a promise of equality, many of the new citizens still faced systemic racism. In Nicaragua racial tensions brewed under the surface and “colonial officials worried about the size of Nicaragua’s African descended population, which accounted for upward of 50 percent of the provinces inhabitants”. The capital city of Leon had been racially segregated as a result of this and despite independence there was still a divide between Afro-Nicaraguans and other races. What had been a collective movement for independence for all of Latin America resulted in a continent where the “rallying call ‘Americanos!’ was no longer sufficient, as Spanish America shattered into a dozen national pieces”. Post Colonial Latin America struggled to find an identity and “it became much harder to sell the idea of a common political purpose uniting all”. The structure of the colonial system did not prepare the continent for self governance and because of this post colonial governments struggled to maintain peace and
Although the independence movement was based off a promise of equality, many of the new citizens still faced systemic racism. In Nicaragua racial tensions brewed under the surface and “colonial officials worried about the size of Nicaragua’s African descended population, which accounted for upward of 50 percent of the provinces inhabitants”. The capital city of Leon had been racially segregated as a result of this and despite independence there was still a divide between Afro-Nicaraguans and other races. What had been a collective movement for independence for all of Latin America resulted in a continent where the “rallying call ‘Americanos!’ was no longer sufficient, as Spanish America shattered into a dozen national pieces”. Post Colonial Latin America struggled to find an identity and “it became much harder to sell the idea of a common political purpose uniting all”. The structure of the colonial system did not prepare the continent for self governance and because of this post colonial governments struggled to maintain peace and