Plural of criollo; men or people of Spanish and indigenous or African descent from Spanish America.
Spanish plural of criollo, formed by adding -s to the masculine noun, used when referring to groups or in general contexts.
The criollos ultimately became the revolutionary class that liberated Latin America—they had everything to gain from independence and were sophisticated enough to organize it, making this colonial category the architects of their own post-colonial future.
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