WI: Gran Colombia is successful.

What if Bolivar's experiment had been successful? How could Gran Colombia have stayed together, and what would be the effects of it staying together?
 

Raymann

Banned
The Republic had several problems that doomed it:

-The President (Bolivar) was simply too powerful.

-They started to form the government during their war of independence, not after. Led to severe problems with areas freed later having less say in the government.

-Massive internal conflicts with little popular support for a united state.

-The eventual failure of their constitutional convention.

To answer your question, to solve those above problems would result in a Columbia very different then what it's short history would tell us. In any event, the country would be spending a lot of its time putting down internal revolts, it might stay together but with people like Jose Paez involved I doubt it would stay a democracy.
 
What if Bolivar's experiment had been successful? How could Gran Colombia have stayed together, and what would be the effects of it staying together?

I don't think that Gran Colombia was a very viable proposition, at least as it came about. To large an area, with too many competing interests; Bolivar's rather autocratic tendencies; and overall the state was rather unstable politically.
 
In my An Alternate History of the Netherlands, I have a New Grenada (that I sometimes refer to as Grand Colombia). It has all the problems of Colombia, but with the oil of Venezuala.
 
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