Like any other continent, Latin America is a melting pot of many cultures and people: some of them are indigenous, others primarily descended from Spanish Europeans who sought a new way of life and independence in what were once Spanish colonies, some who were born in this new and exciting land, and sadly, those who were forced to migrate to Latin America as slaves. But the fight to separate Latin American colonies from the Spaniards who resisted giving up their control did not occur all at once, or in a short series of battles. This was not a ‘Seven Years War’ or even a hundred year war. This was a Revolution that developed over three hundred years, as generations of Creoles, Spaniards by ancestry, but Latin American by birth, loyalty and
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These proud Creoles led the Latin American Revolution because of their growing anger and resentment against the Peninsulares, their desire for more political and economic power, and their fear of lower classes rising up against …show more content…
As Francisco H. Vasquez explained in Latino Thought: Culture, Politics, and Society (Document 8), the Creoles were also concerned about controlling those that they saw as a growing threat: the Indians, blacks and Mestizos. It is interesting that the Creoles were so highly offended that the Spaniards were treating them with such great disrespect and intolerance, but they were willing to treat the native cultures of Latin America the same way they were being treated by Spain. This hypocrisy of Creole anger over their own unequal treatment, while at the same time fighting to make sure that people they saw as lesser than themselves should remain powerless was shown clearly in Rei Berroa’s An Introduction to Latin American Society: A Background to its Fiction 1986 (Document 9) where the Creoles did everything that they could to deprive black Haitian slaves who had fought for Haiti’s independence an equal place beside them in the greater Revolution. Instead of welcoming these native brothers with them in the fight against the Monarchy, the Creoles only saw these people as competitors and never considered treating them as equals in a land where everyone could grow and thrive
These proud Creoles led the Latin American Revolution because of their growing anger and resentment against the Peninsulares, their desire for more political and economic power, and their fear of lower classes rising up against …show more content…
As Francisco H. Vasquez explained in Latino Thought: Culture, Politics, and Society (Document 8), the Creoles were also concerned about controlling those that they saw as a growing threat: the Indians, blacks and Mestizos. It is interesting that the Creoles were so highly offended that the Spaniards were treating them with such great disrespect and intolerance, but they were willing to treat the native cultures of Latin America the same way they were being treated by Spain. This hypocrisy of Creole anger over their own unequal treatment, while at the same time fighting to make sure that people they saw as lesser than themselves should remain powerless was shown clearly in Rei Berroa’s An Introduction to Latin American Society: A Background to its Fiction 1986 (Document 9) where the Creoles did everything that they could to deprive black Haitian slaves who had fought for Haiti’s independence an equal place beside them in the greater Revolution. Instead of welcoming these native brothers with them in the fight against the Monarchy, the Creoles only saw these people as competitors and never considered treating them as equals in a land where everyone could grow and thrive