A Brief History of Post-Conquest Latin America - Part 3 Post Independence Conflict

Now that Latin America was independent, what kind of countries would its leaders build? And how big or small would those countries be?

Today we look at the major disagreements which created conflict - between liberal republicans and conservative traditionalists, and between centralists and federalists.

We also look at the future of slavery, and the series of wars which swept South America as the new countries defined their borders.