There’s a lot of marxist debate over this, but the general view is best shown by this phrase:
“When the Spanish came to the americas, they demanded the peoples to become christians. When the English came, they wiped them out.”
Even the Spanish Queen Isabella in the 1500s after Columbus’s voyages demanded that the indigenous peoples be considered subjects with full rights. The Spanish never tried to systematically wipe out the indigenous in the same way the english did.
And by the time of Bolivar, a big chunk of Latin Americans were, although christian, supportive of indigenous resistance, and slave rebellions like in haiti. At the same time presidents in the US were decrying the haitian revolution and carrying out the largest scale genocide of our time.
There’s like < 10 current countries founded on settler colonialism.
The US, Canada, Israel, Australia, New Zealand are the main ones
What about like all of latin america? Where they not colanised by spain?
There’s a lot of marxist debate over this, but the general view is best shown by this phrase:
“When the Spanish came to the americas, they demanded the peoples to become christians. When the English came, they wiped them out.”
Even the Spanish Queen Isabella in the 1500s after Columbus’s voyages demanded that the indigenous peoples be considered subjects with full rights. The Spanish never tried to systematically wipe out the indigenous in the same way the english did.
And by the time of Bolivar, a big chunk of Latin Americans were, although christian, supportive of indigenous resistance, and slave rebellions like in haiti. At the same time presidents in the US were decrying the haitian revolution and carrying out the largest scale genocide of our time.