Latin American revolutions
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Latin American revolutions may refer to
- Latin American wars of independence, the 18th- and 19th-century revolutionRevolutionA revolution is a fundamental change in power or organizational structures that takes place in a relatively short period of time.Aristotle described two types of political revolution:...
ary wars against European colonial rule that led to the independence of the Latin American states. - Any of the other revolutions and rebellions that have taken place in Latin AmericaLatin AmericaLatin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...
during and since European colonial rule, but especially those in the 20th century.