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Article: The local dynamics of national dissent: the Ecuadorian Pronunciamientos of 1826.
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- The Historian
- Article date:
- January 1, 1993
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The story of the formation of the Republic of Ecuador from the southern departments of Gran Colombia from 1819 to 1830 is one of the most intriguing in Latin American history Encompassing present-day Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, and Ecuador, Gran Colombia was a visionary experiment in regional statecraft made by Simon Bolivar, the revolutionary leader who liberated much of South America from Spanish rule. Bolivar believed that continental security and international respect for Latin America could be achieved only with the establishment of large states built on the broad dimensions of the Viceroyalty of New Granada, which encompassed the northernmost part of the South ...