What if Simon Bolivar had suceeded in unifying South America?

What if Simon Bolivar had suceeded in unifying South America?

We wouldn't be having petty squabbles and football rivalry to this date.

It would have Balkanized just like the gran Columbia did.

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Most Latin American countries can barely even self govern, let alone be part of a unified empire.

This. They weren't developed enough to work together on an even footing. Also Huehuhueland.

This part of the world would be as shitty as Haiti or Dominican Republic

You would have one huge shitty country rather than many shirt countries

imminent war with Mexico for being pro USA

>for being pro USA
come on, Mexico has been mostly anti-USA. That Zimmermann telegraph affair is more than enough to prove it.

He said it perfectly: I have been plowing the sea. Meaning that it was an impossible cause. As for the future, who kows,

Football would be boring Sudamericawinslol event

They are very pro-US. Their government essentially does the bidding of the US gov.

Football in a United States of South America would resemble NFL.

With riots.

this.

Fucking this.

The geographic barriers and the sheer size of the continent would also render governing such a state back then impossible. It wouldn't be a state, more like a confederacy or even an empire.

Bolivar wanted to unify hispanic america, Brazil for example had nothing to do with it. Please check a few sources on the issues before posting anything.
Not necessarily, Brazil didn't balkanize. If South America was unified under an Empire I can see it succeeding in remaining a single political entity despite the clear logistical problems.

>Brazil didn't balkanize.
hard to do when you only control the coastline. They didn't have massive mountain ranges, thick jungle and arid deserts to travel through. And not to mention the added size to sail from say Bogota to Santiago.

Maybe as an empire it could have survived, but who would have the largest amount of power? Plus it would have split off eventually. Hell, why despite being so close to Argentina and Brazil are Paraguay and Uruguay separate countries?

Answering that should explain why a unified South America would have been impossible. And this is coming from a Chilean (not that it matters anyways)

>Brazil didn't balkanize
Also more than half the "nation" was unexplored until modern days with as of yet uncontacted tribes still thought to exist.

So yeah, it didn't balkanize, but it also was effectively much smaller than it is now.

with/under what?
force?
telecomms?
chains?
roads?
ideology?
religion?

fuck off

It is

The criollos would just have balkanized it in their interminable struggle for power

Jungles and impassable mountains.