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thumb|The Guayaquil conference (1822) between [[Simón Bolívar and José de San Martín, the greatest libertadores (liberators) of Spanish America.]]Libertadores (, "Liberators") were the principal Latin American leaders of the wars of independence from Spain and from Portugal. They are named that way in contrast with the Conquistadores ("Conquerors").