TOPIC 1. THE INDEPENDENCE PROCESS AND THE FORMATION OF THE NATIONAL STATE

Introduction

 

This room will recreate the various causes that came together to unleash the process of independence of Central America and Honduras and the challenge of organizing their new political institutions, taking the republican system of government and the postulates of the thought of the Enlightenment as a model .

 

It will explain the birth of a sense of Central American identity, as a reaction of the Creoles led by Valle and other patriots against political discrimination, justified in racist theories that proclaimed the superiority of European man, even when their efforts were hindered by social tensions and regional rivalries, gestated throughout the colonial period.

 

The independence of the thirteen British colonies in North America, the forced abdication of the kings of Spain, and the French invasion of the peninsula in 1808, gave the criollos and independence groups a concrete reference point around which they organized their political, economic, social and cultural aspirations, it is clear that the period of learning about this new formation of the National State would be long and painful.