ECONOMY AND PROCESSES OF INDEPENDENCE OF LATIN AMERICA

Abstract

On the occasion of the bicentennial of the independence of Latin America that began two hundred years ago the analysis of the process has returned to the agenda of academic discussion. The research results have allowed the knowledge we now have of it is very different, by the way, the story offered by traditional historiography, whose content was none other than a justification of the role played by the political elites of each country in a attempt to highlight its central role in the emergence of new political realities that led to the dissolution of taxes colonial ties by Spain and Portugal on this part of the world. Now, however, research is focused, for example, the role played by the popular classes, Indians, blacks and mestizos, in the process, as well as international and domestic forces that shaped their emergence and its outcome. In this context one of the relatively new problems of inquiry relates to the causes and consequences of the colonial crisis, therefore independence, on which is far from reaching a consensus. difficult task because the unit of analysis is not homogeneous.