Why did Gran Colombia Fail? (Short Animated Documentary)

Gran Colombia is one of history's great 'what if' countries. It was a large South American power which only existed for 12 years before breaking into pieces and becoming Venezuela, Ecuador and Colombia. So why did this nation fracture? Why did Gran Colombia Fail? To find out watch this short and simple animated history documentary.

TL:DW - Bolivar maketh. Bolivar breaketh.

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[pridelander]

"Now that they had to get along, they didn't."
You could sum up so so much of history this way.

[ShortHax]

Gran Colombia IRL: Falls in 11 years
Gran Colombia in Civ VI: Conquers the world in 11 years

[kfp]

"Why can't you guys just get along?"
"They speak funny"

[karmo]

fairly confident that ill get a solid history grade now if i answer every question with "Napoleon"

[nightdragonx]

"It's always Napoleon.." I could near feel the eye roll in that phrase 😂😂😂

[piercepayumo]

"We have to go back to Napoleon... it's always Napoleon."

Me: "Seems about right."

[ChessedGamon]

_Hearing about the collapse of Gran Colombia as a kid:_ Oh, what a tradgedy!

_Hearing about the collapse of Gran Colombia after playing Civ 6:_ Oh, what a relief!

[maresgoez]

As a Colombian it is nice to see my country being acknowledge. To add a bit. The problem with the unification of the provinces is geography. Colombia has 3 mountain range crossing it from south to north. So getting to bogota from Caracas was extremely difficult. Whatever laws Bogota would have promoted they would have arrived 3 months later to Caracas.

Road and rail conexion is still a big problem in Colombia just because how expensive it is to build roads on the andes mountains.

[leonardoabuawad]

Me as brazilian seeing this and realizing how crazy it is that my country remained united.

[HappyMan]

So basically, in wanting to keep Gran Colombia together, Bolivar did literally everything that would break it apart.

It's like an overbearing parent wondering why their kids don't want to hang out with them.

[imitationcrabmeat]

Imagine a world where Kelly Moneymaker didn’t make so much money and was unable to fund these quality videos

[LotharTheFellhanded]

The more I learn about other revolutionary leaders, the more I’m convinced that America’s worked out was because Washington stepped down and didn’t want to be king or dictator for life. That’s it, really. If he had been a bit more corruptible we wouldn’t have had any stability to start or example.

[Longshanks]

Napoleon is like Rome, all roads lead to him.

[luismarcialvergaradiaz]

As a south american, It would be interesting if you could make a video on the Peruvian-Bolivian Confederation

[matthewgillies]

America is a country with an army.
Prussia was an army with a country.
Genghis Khan was a man with an army who unified a people, whom made an empire.
Napoleon was a man with many countries to build him many armies, which he used to get more countries.
Gran Colombia was a man and his army trying to make a country.

[Longshanks]

“And now that they had to get along, they didn’t.”

Isn’t that the UN’s tagline?

[CarlMarxPunk]

Bolívar famously said: "The Americas are ungovernable". Which is often used to berate ourselves among latinos about how we can't seem to get things right. In context, it's clear the phrase it's more about Bolívar's ego and inability to compromise. The Americas are ungovernable if you try to rule alone. If you are a caudillo. Things needs to get done together. That's the lesson of this story. A lesson South America needs.

[thomas_lale]

You should do a video on why the Isle of Mann is not part of the UK. An Island right next to the UK, which had a high proclivity for taking land wherever it could, that wasn't incorporated into the

[javieraravena]

Important to note that when the viceroyalty of New Granada was announced a century prior, it took 20 years to establish since both venezuelans and the people from Quito hated the idea

[mestre]

That just goes to show you how big was Napoleon in the history of the world.