Arnaldo Miranda: "It Was Known, It Was, There Was an Independentist Purpose" News Channel 3-12

Historian Armando Miranda Tumbarello spoke with CNN Radio this Saturday about some events that took place prior to the so-called May Revolution. On "Dicen que Dicen" with Alberto Lotuf, he said: "Buenos Aires and its interior provinces, that is, the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, at that time, could not be served, nor could the rest of the Viceroyalties, properly by the Iberian Peninsula, because it was immersed in its own conflicts. You sa…

Historian Armando Miranda Tumbarello spoke with CNN Radio this Saturday about some events that took place prior to the so-called May Revolution. On "Dicen que Dicen" with Alberto Lotuf, he said: "Buenos Aires and its interior provinces, that is, the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, at that time, could not be served, nor could the rest of the Viceroyalties, properly by the Iberian Peninsula, because it was immersed in its own conflicts. You sa…

Various factors: local, regional and international. Mutiny by José Martín de Álzaga against Santiago de Liniers. Rico Spanish merchant, mayor, in 1795, del Cabildo, hilvanó un teoría conspirativa...

On May 25, 1810, it marked the beginning of a new stage in the history of the Rio de la Plata: the First Junta of Government, made up of patriots, was proclaimed. But revolutionary fervor was not limited to the Cabildo or political debates: in the following days, the collective emotion moved to the streets, with popular celebrations and symbolic gestures that sealed the birth of a new government. One of the most emotional moments was the swearin…

The May Revolution of 1810 marked the beginning of a new political era in the territory of the then Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, which also meant that the old colonial order began to crumble. With the installation in Buenos Aires of the Provisional Government Junta - known as the “First Junta” - ties with Spain were broken, since this new government, while maintaining loyalty to the monarch, had been constituted with autonomy from the pen…

By Federico Pita They made us repeat to the tiredness that “the people wanted to know what it was about” and that, finally, freedom began in these lands. However, that freedom had very clear limits: it was white, masculine and owner. It did not reach the popular majorities, much less the hundreds of thousands of Africans, Africans and Afro-descendants who inhabited the current Argentine territory, who were almost entirely enslaved. To show enoug…