The end of the San Juan province pax

The murders of Nazario Benavides, José Virasoro and Antonino Aberastain

Abstract

From the beginning of the national times, the province was influenced by a liberal thought that was appreciated in different governments, the most important point being the sanction of the Carta de Mayo by Salvador María del Carril, when he was governor in 1825 and it led to his downfall due to his open liberal postulates, among which freedom of worship in the province was established. Although this government was defeated, liberal thought was consolidated within a group of young unitary intellectuals, including Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Antonino Aberastain and Guillermo Rawson, among others.The qualitative methodological approaches that will guide the research are constituted through the documentary analysis of bibliography and sources of the time with the intention of observing the different causes and consequences that led to the breakdown of the pacification of the province. Undoubtedly, the tensions that were in crescendo between unitarios and federales in the territory of the Confederation also affected San Juan in a notorious way.It is for the aforementioned that the investigation of the main works that dealt with this issue in the nineteenth-century San Juan is relevant, while inquiring about sources corresponding to various Funds from the Archivo General de la Nación and, thematic envelopes, coming from the Biblioteca Nacional Mariano Moreno and other types of primary sources such as letters, notes and decrees.