I am questioning the non-existence ...
Yeah, there is, which given the historical record of total victory of the Latin Americans over European imperialists, whether Spanish, Portuguese, French, or British, is pretty appalling.Best,
It is, therefore, noteworthy that within the Americas the British managed to take over Trinidad and Belize from the Spanish (though both were not so thickly settled by the Spaniards) and the Americans took over Puerto Rico from the Spanish as well as a chunk of thinly-settled territory (California to Texas) from the Mexicans.
What I am questioning is the underestimation and the claims about the non-existence of such patriotism, during the period immediately preceding the Revolutionary period.
First as the events described in my second post in this thread so testify
the will of the colonists to fight against foreign aggression is clear not only to be attacked directly and Bs. As. and the City of Cartagena de Indias but also organizing the counteroffensive against the invaders and won the event as its title : ''Muy Fiel y Reconquistadora'','very faithful and reconquer', this title was given by the Spanish Crown to the Saint Felipe y Santiago City of Montevideo.
In addition to failing to professional military defense against superior numbers, he is having fought the most of their forces and no hope of reinforcements from Spain, is no evidence against the existence of that patriotism.
*Finally, without going into lengthy explanations on the triggers of the Latin American revolutionary process, which was indeed a complex process, which originated in all regions evenly in its genesis and its development in the various regions of Latin American.
Revolution that to achieve success or even to come into existence, in most nations must have future imported by force of arms from the regions where they originated and survived the
*revolutionary foci.
As it evidenced by the campaigns of the general Belgrano, San Martin and Bolivar
Moreover, given the shortage of professional military forces of the Spanish Crown in America in relation to local inhabitants it would have been impossible to succeed in fighting the revolutionary forces for so long without the active participation in the loyalist forces of American fighters pray various ethnic and social backgrounds.
What if there was a primacy in many cases the local sentiment and also that as students of the revolutionary and North American Civil War will recognize, the autonomists feelings and loyalty to their homeland, colony or state, is in some cases , much stronger than loyalty to the Crown or a particular political and administrative organization to which until then belonged His loyalty was in several villages and within some historical protagonists duty when deciding the membership of a particular side in a Revolutionary uprising or civil conflict.
In conclusion the existence of a triumphant Revolution failed or is not symptomatic of the degree of local patriotism or lack thereof.
Not to mention and start another dicussion , that the national sentiment that currently observed in many Latin American Recent Nations, not born of 'spontaneous generation,' 'but it evolved and was stimulated from the autonomist sentiments, besides being aware and carefully built by the various elites with theirs intellectuals through the education of the people, the creation or recreation and dissemination of national symbols on which to base his nationalist rhetoric during the process of construction and consolidation of the new nations.