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Explain why Latin America was beset with chronic political instability and endemic military conflicts throughout most of the 19th century.

  • UPSC 2019
  • Decolonization and Underdevelopment

Latin America's nineteenth century opened with the promise of republican liberty after the wars of independence (c. 1810s–1820s) but instead delivered nearly a century of coups, civil wars, boundary disputes, and the rule of the caudillo.

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  • The Colonial Inheritance: Institutions Built for Extraction, Not Citizenship
  • The Post-Independence Power Vacuum and the Rise of Caudillismo
  • Liberal–Conservative and Church–State Conflict
  • Regionalism, Geography, and the Fragmentation of the New States
  • Weak Fiscal-Military Capacity of the New States
  • Foreign Economic Interference

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