The Napoleonic Wars in Europe prompted which group to declare independence in Spanish Latin America?

The Napoleonic Wars weakened Spain’s control after Napoleon invaded the country and disrupted its monarchy. In Spanish America, criollos—people of Spanish ancestry born in the Americas—led movements to declare independence. Peninsulares, born in Spain, generally held the highest colonial offices, while mestizos and enslaved Africans were not the group named here.

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