Just a little background, I am of caribbean decent and ive been studying South American history and such and one thing that stuck out to me is the demographics of SA. The mix seems to be African, European and Native American but I noticed this massive difference in the demographic of the countries these two liberated. So in Simon case Colombia, Venezuela, Panama,Ecuador and Bolivia. The population with direct African heritage is much higher especially in Colombia (which was also the biggest port for Spain in the Caribbean at those times) so I can see how other factors play in to population demographic. but it’s the same in Panama and Venezuela and Bolivia which is the least amount but still notable. Let me also note that I’m not mentioning the countless people who don’t know there heritage but claim to have African or European heritage mulattos and mestizos.

Now compare that to San Martin’s Argentina, Peru and Chile. Those counties African- heritage population is almost nonexistent. Argentina and Uruguay tried to remove the African/darker population. (Look up Tango) you’ll see that in Argentina and I’ll go as far to say all of South America deep seated beliefs, behaviors and culture stems from Africa even more so than Europe. Especially when it comes to music, dance, food. I can’t find significant info on Chile but I give them the benefit of doubt considering how far the country is from the Atlantic coast.

So basically I’d like to stem the discussion of what drove the mentality of these colonies at the time to have completely different demographics and was it forged by the mentality of their liberators? Maybe one was looking for a more European nationalistic mentality even though they were independent. While the other was trying get away from that mentality.