What were the major causes of instability in post-independence Latin America?

Task: Choose one of the two prompts below to develop Essay2. The essay should be 3-4 pages in length, double spaced, and in Times New Roman, size 12 font.A good paper will have a clear thesis statement in the introduction, and body paragraphs with clear topic sentences and supporting evidence based on primary and secondary sources. This assignment requires that you cite a combination of at least 3 sources, with a minimum of 1 primary source. You may ONLY use the textbook, and primary and secondary sources provided on CANVAS in your weekly Discussions as sources for your paper. Absolutely no outside internet sources should be used for this assignment.

1. What were the major causes of instability in post-independence Latin America? Consider and select 2-3 major themes discussed in the readings(the nature of the independence struggle itself, economic considerations, the social order bequeathed by Iberia, internal disputes between liberals and conservatives, and/orgeographic factors). Illustrate your thesis with specific examples from primary and secondary sources.

2. Historians typically associate the adoption of positivism with liberals’ rise to power inLatin America in the last decades of the nineteenth century; however, as Ed Shaw cross argues, by the mid-nineteenth century, conservatives were already embracing a technocratic vision of progress.Did elite class interests converge to override ideological differences from the previous decades? Or, did conservative and/or liberal ideologies undergo a transformation by the end of the nineteenth century? In short, take a position and explain why August Compte’s ideas appealed to both elite liberals and conservatives in the second half of the nineteenth century. Be sure to ground your answer in specific examples from primary and secondary sources. You may use the primary source embedded in your textbook—José María Ramos Mejía’s excerpt—to fulfill the primary source requirement for essay 2.