Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "Why did Greater Colombia Collapse?" video.

  1. No. Gran Colombia collapsed due to corruption and ego.
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  2. But for Gran Colombia, the US didn't have to do much. It came apart on its own.
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  3.  @yahiaaymen7876  Gran Colombia collapsed on its own. It didn't need the US's help in achieving that.
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  4. Why revolutionaries and freedom-fighters generally suck at running countries and become the very oligarchs and oppressors they fought against.
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  5. LMAO.
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  6. Just like he was right about Latin America being an ungovernable mess and would remain that way.
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  7. Largely of its own making.
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  8. They're not failed, but definitely inconsequential.
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  9. Mostly internal issues.
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  10.  @miguelbrito4553  But his own ego killed that plan of a unified Latin America along with the ego of other local leaders.
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  11.  @miguelbrito4553  Nah. He was yet another liberator turned oppressor.
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  12. South America is just a rich man's Africa with more or less the same post-colonial leadership consisting of kleptocrats, oligarchs and megalomaniacal revolutionaries.
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  13. @Fabio Eduardo As Venezuela is now officially the poorest country in South America.
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  14. Also high crime.
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  15. But it didn't. Gran Colombia collapsed to personal egos.
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  16. No. Because Gran Colombia's leaders couldn't keep their own egos and personal ambitions in check.
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  17. But was undone by political infighting.
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  18.  @HC-wo2tz  But it has been run into the ground by socialists.
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  19. The CIA didn't exist in Bolivar's time.
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  20. His ego destroyed it.
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  21. Wrong! Simple answer: personal ego and corruption. Gran Colombia imploded on its own.
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  22. But the ego of Bolivar and local elites did it in.
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  23.  @vk6832  Interesting!
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  24. One of the better-off countries in Central America.
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  25. Pretty much.
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  26. The US had nothing to do with Gran Colombia collapsing. Internal infighting did it in. The leadership couldn't check their egos.
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  27. No. The British didn't have to do anything. Gran Colombia self-destructed on its own.
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  28.  @CcsRespira  Sure indeed. Latin America was never known for having its ---- together or leaders that weren't power-hungry egomaniacs.
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  29. LOL. Gran Colombia was never really a threat as it was disorganized and all but already divided.
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  30. Hardly.
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  31. Ego. And some still don't get along with each other due to past wars.
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  32. Pretty much.
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  33. Nope.
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  34. @Fabio Eduardo His own ego and power-lust did him in.
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