THE INDEPENCE (wk 11a)

As we well know, the Spanish government did things in Colombia that benefited them and their people. There was a stratocracy established in Sevilla, and it represented the King Fernando 7th, and it was the government during that time in Colombia, and it ruled very radically on every aspects. This government didn`t realize that their harsh ways of ruling could come into unexpected consequences. So during these people
ruled, others were planning a revolution and being prepared. Among other conflicts, the people who were planning a revolution didn`t realize that some more conflicts were going to be presented, and that was another reason to be prepared (all this happened in 1808, because 2 years before the independence they were already setting up a strategy for freedom).

It was a very hard work to accomplish the independence for everyone in all aspects, and now all that was left to do was to organize a new government with a better rule, and so they tried to build a more modern thing: “La Independencia constituye, entonces, un fenómeno de ruptura y transición, un esfuerzo por salir del pasado y por construir la modernidad” (Colombia, Imágenes de su Diversidad, pg. 127). But this did not result, and brought our country plenty of civil wars, politic debates, popular conflicts, etc. These conflicts brought a failure in the Republic, because of bad organization from the new government, and because of this failure, this was called by some “La patria boba”.

The independence was a very hard thing to get, and, we got it, and many things changed since the independence, but our government didn`t think well about the consequences that the new and first republic (since the colonialism) would bring if some did not agree with the new form of government , and this brought to failure into the first Republic and led to bad things. In conclusion, the independence was accomplished, but its organization and its first attempt to make a good government failed.