Vicente López y Planes
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Vicente López y Planes was an Argentine writer and politician who acted as interim President of Argentina from July 7 to August 18, 1827. He also wrote the lyrics of the Argentine National Anthem adop
Vicente López y Planes, presidente argentina
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
Vicente López y Planes
…grace and was executed by firing squad by Juan Lavalle, Lopez was exiled to Uruguay. He returned in 1830 as a member of the Tribunal of Justice for Juan Manuel de Rosas. He was president of the Tribunal for many years and, among other things, presided over the judgement of the assassins of Juan Facundo Quiroga. He was…
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