How do you think rebels in Latin America heard about revolutions in other countries?

The future heroes and fathers of Latin American independece were people from the local elites in the Spanish colonies, the "criollos," sons of rich families in the colonies. One good example is South America´s Libertador (Liberator) Simón Bolívar.

They were well educated , they were usually trained by talented private mentors thanks to whom they learned about new, egalitarian ideas. They went to Europe to study. In Europe, they got better acquainted with the ideas of Enlightenment, the ideals of the French Revolution. They also got inspired by the American independence and the Revolutionary War, by the Declaration of Independence (and its lofty ideals) and the Constitution. Some of them even fought with the Napoleonic armies, inspired by Napoleon´s drive to spread French Revolution´s ideas throughout the Old World.

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union blockade

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the union blockade in the american civil war was a naval strategy by the united states to prevent the confederacy from trading.

the blockade was proclaimed by president abraham lincoln in april 1861, and required the monitoring of 3,500 miles (5,600 km) of atlantic and gulf coastline, including 12 major ports, notably new orleans and mobile. those blockade runners fast enough to evade the union navy could only carry a small fraction of the supplies needed. they were operated largely by british citizens, making use of neutral ports such as havana, nassau and bermuda. the union commissioned around 500 ships, which destroyed or captured about 1,500 blockade runners over the course of the war.