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Some others, like in Europe wanted republican independence as the French and Americans.

But many Criollos did not want to lose the class privileges, in any new republics, and the most among the coloured majorities ( Indians, blacks and mixed-bloods ) did not want to lose the backing that they had from the Crown and Catholic Church.

Such backing guaranteed the ownership of their ancestral lands, commons, and welfare.