Las guerras de Mitre

📩🔔 If you enjoy Storiopolis, I invite you to join our newsletter to receive exclusive bonus content. It's completely free. https://177a97a0.sibforms.com/serve/M... In the previous episode, we explored the War of the Triple Alliance from the perspective of Paraguay and Francisco Solano López. Today, we'll do the same, but from the perspective of Argentina and its president, Bartolomé Mitre. When war broke out in 1865, Argentina was still mired in decades of civil wars between Federalists and Unitarians. After attempts by Rivadavia, Rosas, and Urquiza to consolidate a national government, Mitre became president in 1862, though he still had to contend with resistance from several caudillos in the interior. Regionally, Mitre sympathized with Venancio Flores and the Colorado Party in Uruguay, whose victory was made possible by the intervention of the Empire of Brazil. Shortly afterward, a new conflict arose: Paraguay requested permission to cross Argentine territory to aid Uruguay, but Mitre, citing neutrality, refused. This decision triggered the Paraguayan invasion of Corrientes and the subsequent signing of the Treaty of the Triple Alliance in 1865. The war, however, was far from simple. After the Allied defeat at Curupayty, Mitre also had to confront the Federalist rebellion led by Felipe Varela in northwestern Argentina. Although he managed to quell the conflict, his prestige was seriously damaged, and the war became increasingly unpopular. In 1868, he relinquished the presidency to Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, who would lead the final stage of the conflict. Today on Storiopolis, we examine the path to the War of the Triple Alliance from the perspective of Argentina and its president, Bartolomé Mitre. An intelligent, fascinating, and also contradictory man, reminiscent of Solano López, though in a very different way. #history #argentina #paraguay #mitre #war