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If any had under the column "Mitre" published by the historian Luis Alberto Romero on the official commemoration of the battle of the Vuelta de Obligado, was the result very good replicas by some "neorrevisionistas" as he disparagingly called those who are reviving a national and popular look on our history. The most significant in my view, that of Sergio Wischñewsky in Página/12 and the Hernán Brienza Argentine Time. In the blogosphere, Abel took the matter under two very good posts in which I spoke with some comments. In particular, I remembered the position of General San Martín on the attitude of the head of the Confederation of Argentina to the Anglo-French raid of 1845 (see also about this post of Ezekiel). And by the way, I decided to revive some notes I had stored on the Liberator and the uses and methods of construction of the figures and facts of history.

reflection I had emerged, was what was the way in which the figure of San Martín, who died far from their land, ostracized and forgotten by his countrymen, was enough years after his physical disappearance to an almost undisputed lie the remains of our history.

The issue has a funny story because the core liberal concrete terms "national" in the decades of 1850 and 1860 was also responsible for founding our official history. I mean Mitre and Sarmiento , especially the founder of the "gallery of doctrine" with works dedicated to Belgrano and San Martín. A History of the elect and reprobate (the largest of all, no doubt, Juan Manuel de Rosas). A civilian hero, "the man who was ahead of its time," Bernardino Rivadavia. A military hero, José de San Martín. But this group had very strong reasons to make reproaches to San Martin, some by historical events and at the time and other causes still very new. To cite just a few:

- Disobedience of orders of the Board (Pueyrredón, Rondeau) to return with his troops from Cuyo, abandoning plans liberation of Chile and Peru to fight the federal montoneras Artigas, López and Ramírez .

- Your attitude to the Anglo-French blockade the Río de la Plata, and support for Rose's attitude, embodied in the legacy of his sword.

Interestingly, in his History of San Martín , Mitre refers to this attitude disqualified. No wonder: he and Sarmiento was part of the emigrants who supported foreign intervention, and one of those mentioned in the famous phrase (see here ):

"... but what is not I can conceive is that Americans have a spirit unworthy of joining the foreign party to humiliate their country and reduced to a condition worse than that suffered in times of English rule, such a felony or the grave can make it disappear ... " Mitre

reproaches the Liberator's "lack of political vision" and its attachment "obsolete" to the idea of \u200b\u200bindependence. Of course it does in his elaborate and convoluted language, former president Anillaco native had said more directly: "remained in the '16 '...

An almost unknown book of enormous value to "think the Bicentennial" is certainly "Young and old men of the Silver of Juan Bautista Alberdi, also shows the author in a facet" pre-revisionist "fairly muted by those who exalt him as hero of liberalism. In that book Alberdi shred the History of Belgrano and Facundo , and "makes mincemeat historically Mitre and Sarmiento" (words of Arturo Jauretche).

The volume contains a couple of letters sent Sarmiento Alberdi and give an indication of how it started raising San Martín to the "official procerato."


"XXXIII - San Martín Sarmiento described in a letter to me"

"Yungay, July 19, 1852. " ... Desmadryl makes a Pantheon of famous people of Chile: the work is finished . You need a biography of San Martín, and you may make brief, spiritual, saissisante [compelling] , instructive. San Martin was a victim, but their departure was an atonement. Their violence, but above all, the shadow of Manuel Rodriguez, stood up against him and emptied. Do you emphasize this fact so beware. This righteousness silent but adamant that America walked away forever. Today is the outlawed Rosas. Its affinities are found in the support provided to the tyrant for what you said: by the feeling of revulsion abroad. The army of the Andes rose up in Lima for general reasons, but the feeling, the passion efficient, was the resentment caused the Argentinians, the be stripped of its flag, that is, their national glory, to hoist the new flag liberated states, giving condottieri air. He also rebelled against his government in Las Tablas, and his army rebelled against him. Are you in charge of the job? Fundemos once our historic tribunal. Let's just stop being apologists but how much evil has been committed. San Martín, punished by opinion, American expelled forever, forgotten twenty years, and restored by the laity, Montt, the doctor, the lawyer, is a worthy and useful lesson. "Having become

I refused to write with conditions imposed in my opinion, Sarmiento wrote me this:

"Yungay, September 2, 1852. "... I pointed you to write the biography of San Martín, because had you done before implying that justice could be done now, etc.. While not my intention to be a withdrawal, because I would not advise anyone anything but honorable, I thought eternal praise of our historical characters, fabulous all, is shame and condemnation our . - Sarmiento. "

Juan Bautista Alberdi, Large and Small Men del Plata , Ed Punto de Encuentro, Buenos Aires, 2007, p. 152-153.


Finally, it was not Alberdi who wrote the biography of Bartolomé Mitre St. Martin but that did not make it brief. The epilogue to the perhaps intended to establish the historical court asked Sarmiento, it does pass the bill to the Liberator.

"The character of San Martín is one of those that are imposed on the story. His action is prolonged in time and its influence is transmitted to posterity as a man of conscious action. The germ of an idea the incubator, which springs from the bowels of the native soil, is deposited into your soul, and is the champion of that idea. As a general hegemony Argentina first, and then Chile and Argentina, is the herald of the fundamental principles who have given their international constitution to America, cohesion to its component parts, and balance their independent states. With all his intellectual shortcomings and his political mistakes, with only limited and specific genius, with his military school more methodical than inspired, and despite their faintness in the course of his life worked , is the man of action more deliberate and far-reaching well balanced that has produced the South American revolution. True to the maxim that ruled his life: "It was what should be" and before that was not to be preferred to 'be nothing'. So live in immortality. "

Bartolomé Mitre, Historia de San Martín, Ed Land Argentino, Buenos Aires, 1950, p. 594.


Obviously, the bronze San Martín not left free.


PS: if there was anything to say about Luis Alberto Romero, Ezequiel said in a masterful and here here.