Independence of Santo Domingo
The Spanish authorities showed little interest in their restored colony, and the following period is recalled as La España Boba—'The Era of Foolish Spain'. The great ranching families such as the Santanas came to be the leaders in the south east, and the law of the "machete" ruled for a time. Then on November 9, 1821 the Spanish colony of Santo Domingo was toppled by a group led by Spanish lieutenant governor Núñez de Cáceres, the colony's former administrator, and the rebels proclaimed independence from Spain on November 30, 1821. The new nation was known as República del Haití Español (Republic of Spanish Haiti). On December 1, 1821 a constitutive act was ordered to petition the union of Spanish Haiti with Simon Bolivar's Gran Colombia. Yet Haitian forces, led by Jean-Pierre Boyer, occupied the whole island just nine weeks later. This was the beginning of a 20 year occupation by Haitian forces.
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