Why didn’t Great Britain support the rest of the European continent in

Why didn’t Great Britain support the rest of the European continent in their Latin American policies?

a. Great Britain realized that independent Latin American countries offered better economic opportunities for British products.
b. Great Britain didn’t want to lose its colonies in Africa, so it opposed any independent colonies in
Latin America.
c. Great Britain hoped to re-colonize most of the Latin American nations once the Spanish and
Portuguese were kicked out.
d. Great Britain had learned from the Revolutionary War with the United States that colonial wars were expensive and impossible to win.
e. Great Britain had observed the economic and political successes of the United States and respected Latin American nations’ rights to the same.

ANSWER
A