Why did Spanish speaking areas of the New World fragment into so many countries while English and Portuguese speaking areas formed large countries?

Question

I realize that there are large Spanish speaking countries, namely Mexico and Argentina. But, for instance, why are the smaller Central American countries not part of Mexico?

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Answer 1

If you’re specifically referring to countries in Central and South America I’d encourage you to skim Wikipedia for their histories – it gives a fair account of how the Spanish Empire in the New World broke apart as well as why Brazil is one country.

Also not all British colonies revolted – that’s why we have Canada, and why the US later invaded Florida.

History from a perspective other than one centralized on the revolutionary colonies is pretty interesting.