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Juan Manuel de Rosas (1793-1877) was an Argentine dictator. He was the prototype of the caudillo dictators of South America and ruled supreme in the Argentine Confederation from 1829 to 1852. Juan Manuel de Rosas was born in Buenos Aires on March 30, 1793, and claimed descent from a noble Asturian family through Count Ortiz de Rosas.
Rosas, Juan Manuel de (1793–1877) Juan Manuel de Rosas (b. 30 March 1793; d. 14 March 1877), Argentine dictator. ROAD TO POWER. Rosas was born in Buenos Aires to a creole family of landowners and officeholders, a characteristic beginning for an Argentine caudillo. He himself was a landowner and military commander.
Juan Manuel de Rosas also had five illegitimate offspring with his mistress María Eugenia Castro (two sons, Joaquín and Adrian, and three daughters, Nicanora, Angela, and Justina). Born in Buenos Aires in 1795 to immigrant parents, Encarnación Ezcurra y Arguibel spent a childhood that witnessed the final years of Spanish rule and the ...
This control by Buenos Aires eventually became a factor in bringing down the Buenos Aires caudillo Juan Manuel de Rosas in early 1852. The victorious alliance, led by the Entre Ríos governor, General Justo José de Urquiza, reinvoked the 1831 pact, and on 31 May 1852 a new federal pact was signed, this time involving most of the interior ...
Juan Manuel de Rosas established a repressive dictatorship over the province of Buenos Aires, from 1829 until his overthrow by Justo José de Urquiza in 1852. In addition to censoring the press and exiling political enemies, Rosas established the Mazorca, the terrorist arm of his political support group, the Sociedad Popular Restauradora. The ...
The troops of the governor of that province, Juan Manuel de Rosas (1793–1877), were pitted against an alliance led by the governor of Entre Ríos, Justo José de Urquiza (1801–1870). Source for information on Caseros, Battle of: Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture dictionary.
During the first administration of Juan Manuel de Rosas (1829–1832), he served as minister of foreign affairs. In 1832, in broken health, he retired from political life but continued to exercise influence over Governor Rosas, his cousin, until his (Anchorena's) death in 1847.
Rosas de Terrero, Manuela (1817–1898) Manuela Rosas de Terrero ( b. 24 May 1817; d. 17 September 1898), daughter of Argentine dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas and Encarnación Ezcurra de Rosas. After her mother's death in 1838, "Manuelita" served as her father's hostess and confidante.
Along with Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Mitre best represents the liberal reformism that infused Argentina after the overthrow of Juan Manuel de Rosas in 1852. Mitre acted simultaneously as statesman, soldier, journalist, and historian in order to set in motion and later consolidate the program laid out in the Constitution of 1853–1860.
John Lynch, Argentine Dictator: Juan Manuel de Rosas 1829–1852 (1981). Lily Sosa De Newton, Lavalle (1967). Additional Bibliography. Pasquali, Patricia. Juan Lavalle: Un guerrero en tiempos de revolución y dictadura. Buenos Aires: Planeta, 1996. Zenequelli, Lilia. Tiempos de guerra, tiempos de paz: Juan Galo Lavalle, José María Vilela ...