page_title: Libertadores
hierarchical_section_title: Libertadores
caption_attribution_description: Entrevista de Guayaquil (1822)
context_page_description: Libertadores were the principal leaders of the Latin American wars of independence from Spain and Portugal. They are named that way in contrast with the Conquistadors.
  They were largely bourgeois criollos influenced by liberalism, and in most cases with military training in the metropole.
context_section_description: Libertadores ([liβeɾtaˈðoɾes] (listen), Portuguese: [libeɾtaˈdoɾis], "Liberators") were the principal leaders of the Latin American wars of independence from Spain and Portugal. They are named that way in contrast with the Conquistadors.
  They were largely bourgeois criollos (local-born people of European, mostly of Spanish or Portuguese, ancestry) influenced by liberalism, and in most cases with military training in the metropole (mother country).
caption: The Guayaquil conference (1822) between Simón Bolívar and José de San Martín, the greatest libertadores (liberators) of Spanish America.
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