El Salvador achieved independence from Spain in 1821 and from the Cen

The Pacific Coast of Nicaragua was settled as a Spanish colony from P

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The islands were part of the UK's Jamaican colony until 1962, when th

Bolivia, named after independence fighter Simon BOLIVAR, broke away f

After more than a century of rule by France, Algerians fought through

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In 1959, three years before independence from Belgium, the majority e

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