Information AboutPeninsulares |
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Colonial officials at the highest levels arrived from Spain or Portugal to fulfill their duty to govern Iberian colonies in Latin America . Often, the Peninsulares had large quantities of land and owned the natives that lived there. They defended the Cádiz monopoly on trade, upsetting the Creoles, prone to smuggle with British and French colonies. They worked to preserve Spanish or Portuguese power and acted as agents of patrol, in certain cases. Those who were born in Europe and migrated from Europe to Spanish or Portuguese colonies were also deemed ''peninsulares''. In colonial social hierarchy, the ''peninsulares'' were nominally at the top, followed by criollos, who developed a fully-entrenched powerful local aristocracy during the 17th and 18th century . In the French Revolution, the peninsulares were generally conservative. ''Peninsulares'' was also a Spanish brand of Cigarette s. |