Latin American revolutions may refer to
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Latin American revolutions may refer to
- Latin American wars of independence, the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century revolutionary
A 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:...
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 America
Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages – particularly Spanish, Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,501 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 twentieth century.