Juan Manuel de Rosas
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Juan Manuel José Domingo Ortiz de Rozas y López de Osornio, nicknamed "Restorer of the Laws", was an Argentine politician and army officer who ruled Buenos Aires Province and briefly the Argentine Con
Juan Manuel de Rosas in 1840
Gauchos resting in the pampas. Oil painting by Johann Moritz Rugendas
Gauchos hunting feral horses. They served in Rosas' private army
Rosas at age 36, 1829
Manuela Rosas
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Manuela de Rosas or more commonly “Manuelita de Rosas”, was an Argentine personality and political activist. She was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and the influential daughter of Juan Manuel de Rosa
Juan Manuel de Rosas
…experienced a rise in social mobility during the Rosas era, with some blacks having high positions in the secret police and military. After his daughter, Manuela Rosas, attended black dances in 1843, the Unitarians used this to insult the Rosas regime, leading to the Rosista newspaper La Gaceta Mercantil proclaiming…
Rosas photographed in London in 1877
Portrait by Prilidiano Pueyrredón