Argentina 1828: Lavalle's Coup and the Federalist Bloodbath

In 1828, Buenos Aires was a powder keg. The war with Brazil had just ended, and Governor Manuel Dorrego, a federalist, negotiated a peace that ceded control of the Banda Oriental (present-day Uruguay) to the newly independent Brazil. For the Unitarian elite in Buenos Aires, this was a betrayal. Enter Juan Lavalle, a hero of the wars of independence, who led a coup, executed Dorrego, and plunged Argentina into a decade of civil war. Lucas and Luna revisit the cold morning of December 13, 1828, when Dorrego was shot in the town of Navarro. They explore Lavalle's motivations, the federalist reaction led by Juan Manuel de Rosas and Estanislao López, and how the execution of a legal governor set a precedent for political violence in Argentina. This episode covers the consolidation of federalist resistance, the Pact of Cañuelas, and the rise of Rosas to power in 1829, laying the groundwork for his twenty-year dictatorship.

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