Talk:Latin American Meiji

I am not sure if the POD really leads to a more advanced Latin America. It is not a question of republics v/s monarchies, but rather on the real interest to support science and technology either directly (government promoting it) or indirectly (people pursuing it and government not being too much of a hinder).

Note that OTL Meiji Japan was a monarchy, while all Hispanic-America became republics. In New Granada/Colombia, the case a know the most, there was more scientific progress under the illustrated despotism of Charles III and Godoy, than in the firsts half century of the republics. Most local scientist supported the insurrections in 1810, and all of them were killed in 1816-19, when Spain captured back New Granada.

—Carlos Th (talk) 04:08, 6 October 2008 (UTC)