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Did the American Revolution Really Influence Spanish American Revolutions?
with Andrew Sola and Prof. Roberto Breña (El Colegio de México)
“The Mexican Nation, which for three hundred years has not had its own will, nor the free use of its voice, rises today from the oppression in which it has lived… [The Mexican Nation] solemnly declares, through its Supreme Junta of the Empire, that it is a Sovereign Nation and independent from old Spain, with which, in the future, it will not maintain another union but that of a close friendship, in the terms prescribed by international treaties…”
-Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire (1821)
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