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Desde la independencia hasta hoy Después de tres siglos de dominación española, los colonos querían su independencia. La minoría culta, la mayoría de ellos criollos, pedían reformas. Una de sus quejas13 fue contra la política intervencionalista y de control económico que practicaba la monarquía española. La Corona no permitía el comercio con ningún otro país, sólo con España. Les compraba la materia prima a los colonos a precios muy bajos y les vendía los productos manufacturados a precios muy altos. Otro problema fue la debilidad de la monarquía española que culminó en la invasión francesa de España en 1808 cuando Napoleón nombró a su hermano José Bonaparte rey de España. Las rebeliones independentistas empezaron a principios del siglo XIX. Simón Bolívar luchó en el norte, en Venezuela y Colombia. El general José de San Martín luchó en Argentina y Chile y siguió la costa hasta Lima. Los dos se reunieron en Guayaquil en 1822 pero no pudieron ponerse de acuerdo sobre una política de posguerra. San Martín se retiró a Francia y Bolívar continuó la lucha. Bajo Bolívar y el mariscal Sucre el dominio español en la América del Sur terminó con las victorias de Junín y Ayacucho en 1824.
Aun antes de la independencia empezaron a surgir intereses regionalistas y separatistas. En vez de formar una gran entidad política, el sueño de Bolívar, los virreinatos se dividieron en muchas naciones diferentes. Desde la independencia las naciones andinas de Ecuador, Perú y Bolivia han tenido una historia política bastante turbulenta con enfrentamientos14 entre conservadores y liberales, militaristas y civilistas. Cada país ha tenido gobiernos democráticos y dictaduras. Y cada uno ha gozado de períodos estables y ha sufrido de períodos inestables. Son Ecuador, Perú y Bolivia los países que han conservado la mayor población indígena de todos los países sudamericanos. Las poblaciones indígena y mestiza alcanzan aproximadamente el 70 por ciento de la población total de cada nación. Hoy hay un fuerte renacimiento de interés en todo lo «indígena» y esta población está pidiendo una voz más fuerte en el gobierno y en el liderazgo15 de cada país donde por lo general la élite criolla sigue ejerciendo mayor poder.
Al visitar no importa cual de estos tres países, vas a ver unos paisajes inolvidables. Y por todas partes vas a sentir o experimentar las ricas herencias indígena y española. La ciudad más intacta de los incas es Machu Picchu. Se discute si servía de fortaleza, de santuario religioso o de escuela para la nobleza incaica. En 1300 la ciudad de Chan Chan de los Mochica en la costa norte de Perú fue más grande en tamaño y población que cualquier ciudad europea de la época. Sus magníficas ruinas dan testimonio de su grandeza. Una visita al mercado de Otavalo al norte de Quito en Ecuador es una experiencia inolvidable. Aquí se puede comprar de todo. A muchos les interesan los tejidos porque los tejedores otavaleños gozan de fama mundial y sus tejidos son muy apreciados. Ejemplos de la herencia española son las bellas plazas de Lima, Quito y Sucre, todas de estilo colonial. El convento de Santa Catalina en Arequipa es una joya arquitectónica. Es todo un pueblo cerca de la Plaza de Armas que hasta recientemente sirvió de residencia a las señoritas acomodadas que decidieron dedicarse a la vida religiosa.
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jordangentry:
Clear - Concise - Correct.
I don't think "Deanski" in his reply "Ugh" could have been clearer, more concise, or more correct.
I will put it in more words because I am verbose, but it will mean the same as "Ugh".
You have asked us to do too much and it appears you have done nothing for yourself. You have asked us to do your work for you and have not even made it a request. No "please" no "Por favor" no courtesy at all except that your request was not accompanied by anything stated to be rude.
We are a learning web site and a community of members who are all learning Spanish or English. We are not a translation service for those who want to farm out their homework assignments to some egghead grunt who will then spoonfeed it back in a completed format.
It is our strong preference that when you ask for our help, you show us what you think the answer is and whether or not your suggested answer is correct.
What to do now. If you originally wrote the above paragraphs, did you write them 1st in English. If yes, show us the English version from which you created them.
If you did not write the English version, try now to decipher and translate the Spanish paragraphs in your question. Tell us what you think the translation is. The work is a big one. Hopefully someone will look at your ideas and let you know if you are correct or not.
For future entries in this forum, it would be better to break the work down into smaller bites, say, one paragraph per question. That way, no single request looks as daunting as one huge mother of a request.
While I have your attention, if I still do, please read or Rules and Guidelines for this forum. Here are the Rules and Guidelines.
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Regards and best wishes,
Moe
Hi jordangentry
It would appear from your answer to Moe's comments that although you do not want to spend hours of translating with dictionaries, your words not mine, you expect others members to do just that. I am amazed that you don't think that is unreasonable. As Moe has already stated we are NOT a translation service but a Spanish, English learning site. Have a go at the translation yourself and someone may, or may not after your petulant attitude, correct it for you. I have removed the moderator attention flag since your post has now been dealt with.
Best of luck.
Moe
You do not have to answer if you don't want. I have spent enough time doing "stuff for myself" and i can not figure out these paragraphs. You are not forced to answer my question, so I do not believe I am being rude by not saying please. If I would have gotten an answer then I would have responded with a thank you, and would have been very polite. Instead, I am going to try to show you how that was a bad response, without losing my head and making a few very rude comments as much as you deserve them. If you do just translate it for me, I get to save hours of translating with dictionaries and teachers and such. If you do translate it for me, then you get the gratification of helping me out, and you get a very appreciative thank you, and we both come out of this winners. Instead you try to make me look bad. I do not like this. You are obviously a very pompous person with too much time on your hands. For what ever sad reason, by putting my request down, you have made your self feel better. Maybe it makes you feel smart or something, but I don't know because I do not have the same illogical thoughts as you. I can assure you however that it makes you a bad person to go out of your way to make me look like a punk. You could have just left this whole post alone, but instead you took a poor approach and, in my opinion, have made yourself look like a pompous man. There are many people like you in this world. People who always want to seem smart, but they are not. I can not stand those people, and they are not good people. So I advise you to stop acting like jerk. If you act the same way in public, I can assure you that you will make the wrong person mad, and you will not be a happy person. I know responding to you like this is immature, but then again so was your answer. I am seventeen and you are much older I am guessing from you picture, therefore you should be the mature one.
The Spanish colonies in south America grew dissatisfied with foreign rule, especially the economic control They took advantage of the situation in Europe to win their independence and the region was divided into several countries. The three Andean nations--Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia--have had their problems, but are nice places to visit.
Ugh!
