by Strong Americas | Aug 13, 2026
Mexico’s independence movement grew out of the political instability that followed Napoleon Bonaparte’s 1808 invasion of Spain, which weakened royal authority throughout the Spanish Empire and emboldened criollo elites and mestizo communities to question...
by Strong Americas | Aug 12, 2026
Jamaica remained under British colonial administration for more than 300 years, governed largely in the interests of a plantation economy built on enslaved and, later, indentured labor. Popular pressure for greater political voice grew through the early twentieth...
by Strong Americas | Aug 12, 2026
For nearly three centuries, the territory that is now Honduras was administered as part of the Captaincy General of Guatemala, a Spanish colonial jurisdiction subordinate to the Viceroyalty of New Spain. Political change elsewhere in the Spanish empire, including...
by Strong Americas | Aug 12, 2026
Haiti’s independence movement grew out of the brutal plantation economy of Saint-Domingue, then France’s most profitable colony in the Caribbean. In 1791, enslaved Africans launched a large-scale uprising against colonial planters, igniting a conflict that...
by Strong Americas | Aug 11, 2026
British Guiana, the colony that would become Guyana, had been under British administration since 1814, following more than a century of earlier Dutch rule, and remained a colony for 350 years in total before achieving sovereignty. Political organizing toward...
