>>17799237Nah, they were loyal to Spain because they knew creoles would stablish liberal centralized regimes based after US that would end expropiating their lands. Monarchy instead needed indians, the Church and creoles to fight each others for power.
Spanish king backed creoles from Mexico, and Peru during Tupac Amaru revolt (these creoles were already planning their own revolt, but after the revolt returned to royalist vias given they lacked the power to defeat a massive qechua revolt)
Meanwhile Spanish king backed Injuns during the independence wars started by creoles from Argentina, Colombia, Chile and Venezuela.
But yeah, Latam is filled with hypocresy. You can't identify as Euro even if you are a purebreed Cantabrian, Sicilian or Basque, but Euro phenotypes are promoted by society at the same time.