The Spanish authorities repressed the first of the cities to form a Sovereign Board. The viceroys of Lima and Bogotá would send troops to Quito with the order not to let "a grain of salt" enter. After the defeat, the armies would remain in the city, so that a year later, on August 2, 1810, they assassinated 300 patriots and citizens, which shook all of America. But the reaction of the Spaniards led to the polarization of positions and the Creole elites would multiply, from 1811, the proclamation, without ambiguity (plainly), of independence (in Caracas, for example, the First Republic was installed). The Creole reaction was weak at first, but it was sometimes stronger and more organized, which turned the process into a true continental war that lasted several years.
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