It was a sort of cascade of revolutionary Latin American states, throwing off the yoke of the weak and decrepit Spanish Empire.
England welcomed this jacobin contagion of liberty at the expense of another erstwhile great power.
Rather like the Ottoman Empire, at the other end of the Mediterranean, sick man of the Middle East, getting gradually divested, by war, and neglect, of its erstwhile subjects, who then basked briefly in their new found freedom and equality, but somehow still ended up under the thumb of another master, or two.
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