The trade competition between Britain, the United States and France to impose their products and control the region's ports, was compounded by the series of independentist and interventionist political experiments in the region, frequently riven by civil war and the so-called 'caste war.'
La competencia comercial entre Inglaterra, Estados Unidos y Francia por imponer sus productos y controlar los puertos de la zona, se combinaba con la serie de experimentos políticos, independentistas e intervencionistas de la que tampoco estuvo ausente la guerra civil y la llamada 'guerra de castas'.