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| | Bolivia INDEPENDENCE FROM SPAIN AND THE EARLY NATIONAL PERIOD, 1809-39 - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, ... |
 | | The conservative judges of the audiencia were influenced, however, by their autocratic royalist philosophy and refused to recognize the authority of the junta because they saw it as a product of a popular rebellion. |
 | | On May 25, 1809, tensions grew when radical criollos, also refusing to recognize the junta because they wanted independence, took to the streets. |
 | | On July 16, 1809, Pedro Domingo Murillo led another revolt by criollos and mestizos (those of mixed European and Indian ancestry) in La Paz and proclaimed an independent state in Upper Peru in the name of Ferdinand VII. |
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