Why did spain create colonies in latin america?

social and ethnics struggles why did spain create colonies in Latin America? answer - they wanted to make money.They used a mercantile economic system which encouraged European countries to take colonies so they could have more resources and more people to sell their manufactured good read more

He thought that if he captured Toussaint L'Overture, the leader, then everything would unravel and fall apart. read more

Spain created the colonies in Latin America to supply itself. The colonies would ship their raw materials to Spain. This is called mercantilism. read more