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So, if Gran Colombia survived to become a great power, how would it's relations with the US be? For one thing, the US won't be the hegemon all of the Americas anymore and will have serious competition as Gran Colombia would have oil and coal to industrialize to a high degree. It would also start to receive more immigrants. In OTL Venezuela had a large migration of Germans to it, but Gran Colombia would get even more immigrants from varying areas in Europe. Most definitely syphoning OTL Italian and German immigrants to Brazil and Argentina ,as Gran Colombia is closer. These immigrants and the resources would make Colombia strong. Colombia would also take immigrants that USA tended to refuse more often, so not just southern and eastern Europeans, but also Asians and people from the Carribean. Colombia would also have access to both the Atlantic and Pacific. It would be a simple matter of will for Colombia to build a large Navy. It would also build it's own Panama canal, without outside interference. This could lead to the US building a canal in Nicaragua or it could not. Certainly the Spanish American war would occur differently, if at all since Colombia would likely have a say in the Carribean. American imperialist adventures in Latin America will certainly make Colombia oppose the US. Just the Mexican American war, could sour Colombian American relations. With all this in mind, what do you guys think will be the status of their relationship? Please don't focus on the plausibility of Gran Colombia staying together, but let's assume it's in a federative model, and it exists to this day. I probably should specify the era that they are in , so how are relations in the 1900s to the 1910s.