“I’m no fan of Britain, but they left their colonies in better shape for independence/self-rule than other colonizers.”
We have a rule of thumb for vacation spots. If it was settled by the British or the Dutch, its most likely okay.
If it was settled by the French or the Spanish, stay away.
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That’s very funny! Add Portugal’s former colonies to “do not visit”.
The independence movement in the two “bad ones” were very different; the Spanish ones were like our own (where Spaniards in the colonies rebelled against their monarchy, and set up new countries without paying much heed to aspirations of the native people), while the rest were non-European natives rebelling against the colonizer. With the exception of Haiti, independence came much later (more than a century) for the others.