The Story of the 'Llorente's Vase' Incident That Initiated Colombia's Independence

The incident, which started in Santa Fe de Bogotá and was seen as an ordinary vase dispute, became the spark of an independence movement that changed…

A group of Creollo (New World-born Spanish) elites prepared a deliberately provocative plan to borrow a vase from Spanish merchant José González Llorente. The purpose of this plan was to trigger the people's…