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What were the long term effects of the Latin American revolutions?
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Content: For a while, there was hope that these new states might unite as one force, but those longings soon faded as conflicts begin to arise between the new nations. A new kind of rule also arose. Newly freed colonies were not prepared for the challenges of self rule, and soon, powerful men, surrounded by groups of followers, took control of various Latin American countries. These men were called caudillos, and they often ruled as military dictators, creating much discord and a great deal of hardship for the developing nations. The common people suffered the worst from these new political developments. Poverty was rampant, and many people were forced off of their lands, or at least forced to work on the lands that their governments sold to upper-class citizens to raise money. Further, the caudillos borrowed large amounts of money to develop industries in their new countries, but this strategy backfired when they couldn't pay back their loans. The creditor nations, like the US and Britain, then seized these industries and used them to set up their own web of commercial and political influence in Latin American. The whole system was a recipe for violence, and such broke out many times during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as military regimes came and went, the common people struggled for democratic rule, and other nations competed for influence in Latin America. Further Reading
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A long-term effect of the revolutions of Latin America worth considering is what happened to the Spanish Empire afterward.