Factors Lat Amer Independence

I agree with the statement that the growing acceptance of ideas and attitudes associated with modernization and Europeanizism that essentially caused the movement toward Spanish American Independence, but disagree that, no other factors were involved. There was a huge underlying factor involved and that was the resentment of Peninsulars by the Creoles. The resentment of the Peninsulars by the Creoles has been fermenting over a century and more. Where the Peninsulars under a Pre-Bourbon Crown …

…the inevitable was meant to happen and that is Independence from a week Royal Court as the Bourbons who could not political influence the decisive change in the change of political structure of Spanish American Society of that time. The Bourbons Reforms that they did and did not do coupled with the expansion of freetrade in their Spanish American Colonies, which brought foreign revolutionary ideals, lead to the Spanish colonies direction toward Europeanism and modernization.