It didn't; Spain DID gain control of most of Latin America.
War & conquest.
Of their own destinies? Since the beginning of the 19th century.
Portugal
we helped them gain their independence
Arabs
Nicaragua
the treaty that gave portugal cotrol of parts of the new world including brazil.
Haiti.
Haiti did (1804).
The british and definately not the spanish
He wanted all of Latin America to gain its independence from the rule of the Spanish.
June 14,1846