The Triple Threat from Latin America

This week in class, we learned about the latin revolutions in Brazil, Gran Colombia, and Mexico. the essential question for this unit was, “Why is it essential to acknowledge human value regardless of race? How are the

TO CLARIFY: Peninsulares were people of  European descent born in Europe, Creoles were people of European descent born in the Americas, Mestizos were natives with a position of power, Mulattoes were people of European and American descent, the rest is self explanatory    

events in the Latin American Revolutions evidence of this social imperative?” The essential question was very critical,when talking about the latin revolutions, because almost all of them started from prejudice distribution of power among the citizens. at the start of the lesson we were split into 3 groups, and each group was given a revolution to cover. In those groups, we had to make a timeline of our assigned timeline. After we finished we shared them with the other groups.

All of the revolutions in Latin America had different reasons and outcomes. While Gran Colombia became a republic once it had declare independance, Mexico and brazil both became constitutional monarchies with their own royal families and that such. The leaders of the each individual  revolutions, also had different characteristics too. Brazils revolutionary leader was a peninsulare born in portugal, while the leaders of the Mexican and Colombian revolutions were creoles, born in their respective countries.

Timeline for Revolutions in Brazil

Though very different the revolutions were also very similar in many ways. For one, they all of the revolution were fought against a country located on the Iberian peninsula. Brazil fought for independence against the portuguese, while mexico and Gran Colombia fought against the nation of spain. The other reason that the revolutions were similar, was that they all had one figurehead to lead the revolution. King Pedro lead Brazil to independence, Simón Bolívar piloted Gran Colombia to freedom, and Antonio José de Sucre was the vanguard for the Mexican Revolution.

While the race problem in 1800's latin america does not seem relevant to modern society, it really is. The major issue of race/religion is present in the ongoing Israeli–Palestinian conflict, a feud that has been going on for centuries. In the Israeli, many muslims cannot visit any of their holy sites, because of the actions set  radical muslim groups like Hamas or Isis.  Incidents like this are gestures that we as a society, have the same maturity as the spanish/portugese in the 1800's.