Libertadores (Spanish and Portuguese for "Liberators") refers to the principle leaders of the Latin American wars of independence from Spain and Portugal. 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). The most prominent Libertadores were Simón Bolívar and José de San Martín, who'd a famous meeting in Guayaquil… (More on Libertadores)