the portuguese were even conservative compared to the spanish. jos toms boves was a asturian monarchist leader in the spanish american war of independence who led anti-independence hordes of mestizos, mulattos and blacks who massacred, pillaged and raped white criollos (spanish people who were born in the colony and had less power than the peninsulars of the metropolis/born in spain) called the "infernal legion" who worshipped him as "taita" (ebonics of tata, daddy) boves who even participated in their syncretic religions such as santeria and palo mayombe (hispanic candombl and quimbanda). the reason for boves' hatred against the criollos was because he was despised by them as a poor peninsular redneck who was exiled to venezuela for smuggling, made friendship with non-criollos and had his mulatto wife and son murdered by them. the infernal legion's slogan was "fight the white exploiters of the indians and browns! give the whites' lands to the browns!" (although boves is literally a blond-haired, green-eyed white guy from northern spain of visigothic/germanic descent). the predictable moves of bolvar, the leader of the independentists, were no match for boves' infernal legion, who kept trampling on the venezuelan separatists over and over again, who occupied caracas and ended venezuela's first attempt at independence. they were the nightmare of every rich/slave-owning white man in venezuela, who supported independence with few exceptions. bolvar was famously forced to retreat in the so-called "emigration to the east" and boves eventually died in a battle he won.   toms_boves
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