Alternate History: United South America

What If Simon Bolivars United South America Into Gran Colombia And Successfully Kept It Growing? Could A United State Of South America Compete With It's Northern Neighbor?

[aarohalme]

Bolivar wanted a united latin america not just spanish south america.

[TG-DJT]

Alternate History: What if Quebec was a independent country as a French Colony or just Independent

[tricolourbearer]

Maybe it would have been better like this.

[TheAnimeHistorian]

Therapist: Chad Simon Bolivar isn't real, he can't hurt you
Chad Simon Bolivar: 0:01

[elultramontano]

What if Mexico won the Mexican American war?

[EvilParagon]

As much as I love Bolivar (and I'm Australian), I don't think he ever could have 100% bordered Brazil.
Even if he and his people were highly competent, Brazil would lose South American Hegemony if they were to be enclosed.
Brazil would constantly insight rebellions and corruption, and might even send anti-Bolivarian propaganda to Argentina to ally with them as an excuse to jump in the war when Bolivar comes and destroy them there.

Brazil isn't going to sit by.

So really this is a double alternate history.
"What if Bolivar could do it"
"What if Brazil didn't do it"

[nunodiogo]

Make a video about: "What if the Portuguese Empire never fell"

[darthdingus]

Wow, your voice has changed a lot from here to modern videos (2023)

[eliasfrahat]

Request alternate history: United arab world

[heybeter]

What if after ww1 intermarium was formed, or a union between eastern european countries

[INEEDALIFEYT]

Can you please do What if Napoleon went though with the plan of taking over australia? (Like Baudin Expedition of 1800 to 1803)

[TapOnX]

I could see a unified Latin America in a scenario where it is a semi-theocratic confederation, controlled by a local, detached branch of the Catholic Church. The local clergy would embrace extreme populism, similar in nature to the modern Liberation Theology, and assimilate local folk customs. This would allow this organization to gain trust of the commoners and use them to depose the landowning elites. The common ideology would perhaps be able to unify all the ethnic groups of the region. As an (allegedly) progressive, bureaucratic dictatorship, it would be similar to the Soviet Union. Considering its massive size, it would also fill the same geopolitical spot. Imagine an early cold war between this monstrosity and, say, the British Empire.

[kaiseryuukoofnichijou]

What if the allies had also declared war in the soviets in World War Two during their invasion of poland

[hallu]

What if the United States never stopped expanding in the America’s

[DylanoRevs]

The world will become like the Cod: Ghosts universe.

All we need is a global energy crisis

[darth]

If only one day.... a world where the Republic of Texas whether remained Independence, or was annexed by the British Empire instead of The United States.

[wills.e.e]

*The Federation Intensifies*


If you don't know, this is a reference to COD: Ghosts

[beda]

1:07 This is simply not true. There are differences, of course, but not as heterogenous as you say and it is false that there is not a "unified South American identity", you talk as if all countries were islands incommunicated from each other, which is a bold statement. First of all, the first trace of a united identity can be found in the Incas (they went from Colombia to Chile and Argentina) and other indigenous states that are present in more than one country. In the case of the Incas all these countries share UNESCO Heritage sites like the Incan Road. Then, during the Spanish rule all of South America was part of the Viceroyalty of Peru.

During the independences it is where we see most coordination and unity: the United Liberator Army consisted of units from Gran Colombia, Peru, Chile and Argentina, for example, and Bolívar and San Martín met each other in Guayaquil, where there is a very important monument about that meeting. Liberators born in a certain country went to fight for another country, they conceived the whole of America as their nation. San Martín wanted a Confederation while Bolívar wanted a centralist state.

During the 20th Century there were a lot of advances towards unity. As early as 1910, Manuel Ugarte had coined the extremely famous term "Patria Grande" (meaning Great Fatherland), to refer to all of the Latin America and that term is now very used today and was extremely popular among all South American presidents of the 2000s when Unasur (Union of South American Nations) was created.

In the 20th Century you had the Chilean Salvador Allende, first socialist president ever of Latin America, who was probably the first president to publicly talk about a Latin American union. Meanwhile, in the 1950s Che Guevara was doing his roadtrip throughout all of South America, from Argentina to Venezuela, passing by all the Spanish speaking countries. Also, Juan Domingo Perón, the Argentinean leader, talked about a "Mercado Común Latinoamericano" (Latin American Common Market) and wanted to do the same that Europe had done shortly after WW2 ended and he wrote a text called "Latinoamérica: ahora o nunca" (Latin America: now or never).

In the 21st century about every president has talked about the union, most notably José Mujica of Uruguay, Rafael Correa of Ecuador and the Kirchners in Argentina.

So yes, there are differences, but we also have much more in common than what the European Union countries have with each other, even if trolls on the internet say the opposite, the fact that a peronist like Alberto Fernández won the presidency recently in Argentina say that there is affinity towards a union. Even in Argentina there is a latinoamericanist party called "Frente Patria Grande" (Great Fatherland Front).

Don't get me started with culture. Today most South Americans in TV have the same programs on air, they hear very similar music (cumbia, which was born in Colombia, is extremely popular in Argentina for example and tango had its glorious epoch in other South American nations), Copa Libertadores (tournament of South American clubs) is the most important and watched football tournament of this continent, we watched the same series and cartoons, read the same novels. In fact, the Latin American boom authors are all latinoamericanists, that's why García Márquez' speech when he won the Nobel prize was called "The solitude of Latin America", we have famous books like "The Open Veins of Latin America", etc.

Also, we are liberating custom unions, so now any South American citizen doesn't need a passport to go to other South American country.

But yes, I guess we don't have a common "identity", right?

[mathieuleader]

Here's an interesting what if for you Monsieur Z my county's biggest city and its capital Chester then known as Deva was the capital of Roman Britain and they intended to use the coastline to travel across the Irish Sea to attempt to take Ireland what if the Romans succeeded in either taking parts of Ireland or Ireland as a whole using Chester as its tactical hub

[kuska]

Make a what if Otto von Bismarck exsecuted a coup when he was fired plz