The Unfinished Cabildo Abierto: Argentina's 1810 May Revolution

Buenos Aires, May 1810. For a week, the city's cabildo abierto — an open town hall meeting — became the stage for a political drama that would tear the Spanish Empire's most loyal viceroyalty away from the Crown. This episode follows the key figures of the May Revolution: Cornelio Saavedra, the cautious commander of the Patricios Regiment; Mariano Moreno, the fiery radical who wanted immediate rupture; Juan José Paso, the lawyer who outmaneuvered the viceroy; and Cisneros himself, the last viceroy clinging to legitimacy. We walk through each day of the May Week, from the false news of the Junta of Seville's fall to the famous rainy day of May 25, when the crowd in the Plaza de la Victoria demanded a new government. But the revolution was anything but unified — the Cabildo Abierto was itself a contested, improvised institution, and the Junta that emerged was a fragile coalition of factions with wildly different visions for Argentina's future. We explore the political maneuvering inside the cabildo, the role of the porteño militia, and how the May Revolution set the stage for decades of civil war between centralists and federalists.

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