> The collapse of the Spanish Empire left weak governments unable to control vast territories, opening space for regional strongmen, or caudillos, who ruled through personal armies, patronage, and landownership rather than constitutions. Much like feudal lords, they taxed, judged, and protected their provinces, building a system of neo-feudal caudillismo where politics depended on shifting loyalties rather than institutions. This dynamic fueled much of Latin America’s 19th-century instability.> In Spain, the Napoleonic invasion and imperial decline produced a similar fragmentation. Instead of caudillos, power lay with Carlist warlords, coup-prone generals, and rural caciques who dominated villages through patronage and intimidation. The Carlist wars turned parts of the Basque Country, Navarre, and Catalonia into semi-independent strongholds, while generals in Madrid toppled governments and local bosses rigged elections. As in the Americas, politics revolved around personal power rather than stable institutions.> This fragmentation opened both Spain and its former colonies to foreign dominance, especially by Britain. British merchants quickly displaced Spain’s monopoly, flooding new republics with goods and securing markets for their textiles and machinery. British banks financed wars and indebted states, trading loans for concessions in mining, railways, and customs. Other powers, like France and later the United States, also exploited the instability, but Britain benefited most, turning much of Spanish America into an informal empire. Even Spain itself, weakened by war and debt, relied on foreign capital, leaving both sides of the Atlantic dependent on external financiers and markets.
No one is gonna read all of this but from picrel and the mention of the Spanish empire. I can confirm that this wop is right
>>215341110Dude. If you want to seethe, seethe about the AMERICANS. They were the ones who killed the Spanish Empire during the Spanish-American War, and on a false flag pretext too. The Yanks completely humiliated, NTR, raped, gaped, forced, guroed, bondaged, BDSMed the Spics so bad that Spain was castrated into a civil war soon after.
>>215341110yes, yes, we built latin america. we gave you football, railroads, industry and independence. now say thank you
>>215342320>>215341110Why didn't latinx reunite with Spain after Ferdinand VII became a king?Bolevar was MI7 agent o algo?
>>215341110>jungle warlords want to LARP medieval in a modern world of ships and gunpowder >inevitably get steamrolledWhat’s the problem? Makes sense to me.
>>215343113the latinxes couldn't even unite their own countries, it took decades after independence for some of them to stop having civil wars every ten minutes, especially in central america. this didn't start being our fault until the 1900s by the way
>>215343113He got overthrown by British backed liberals in 1820
