How Did the Spanish Government View Its Latin American Colonies

How did the Spanish government view its Latin American colonies?

A) The colonies were seen as a way to relieve overpopulation and famines.
B) The Spanish were uninterested in events in the Americas and so ignored the area.
C) The Spanish treated its American colonies as sources of wealth for the Mother Country.
D) They treated the Latin American colonies as locations for industrialization.
E) The Spanish considered the Americas as a good place for penal colonies.