Da colonização aos dias atuais.
For nearly 300 years, the territory that is now Guatemala formed part of the Captaincy General of Guatemala, a Spanish colonial administration based in Antigua Guatemala that also encompassed present-day El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. By the early nineteenth century, movements for independence were spreading across Spanish America, spurred in part by Napoleon’s […]
By the early 1970s, Grenada was moving toward the end of British colonial rule under the leadership of Premier Eric Gairy, who had pressed London for full independence throughout his tenure. In May 1973, Britain announced that Grenada would become independent the following February, a step that would make the small island one of the […]
Calls for independence in the Salvadoran province first took organized form on November 5, 1811, when the priest Jose Matias Delgado rang the bells of La Merced Church in San Salvador to summon an uprising against Spanish colonial authority. Known locally as the Primer Grito de Independencia, or First Cry of Independence, the revolt was […]
Ecuador’s path to independence began in August 1809, when Creole leaders in Quito deposed the Spanish authorities and formed a short-lived governing junta, an event later remembered as the “First Cry of Independence.” Spanish forces quickly suppressed the uprising, and a subsequent revolt in 1810 ended in the massacre of several of its leaders, delaying […]
Dominican Republic’s independence movement unfolded in stages over more than two decades. In 1821, Dominican elites deposed the Spanish colonial governor and briefly declared independence as the Republic of Spanish Haiti, ending three centuries of Spanish rule. That independence proved short-lived: the following year, Haitian forces under President Jean-Pierre Boyer occupied the eastern side of […]
