La emigración chilena en el Río de la Plata y el problema del territorio en la acción política

Abstract

The article analyzes the motivations and arguments that founded the application of the classification of emigrants to the Chilean patriot conglomerate that landed in the capital of the Cuyo jurisdiction as a result of the defeat of Rancagua in 1814, and the exercise of authority practiced in the jurisdiction by the governor intendant, José de San Martín, who associated the territory under his command with the Laws and the Superior Government of the United Provinces. Such problems promise to be confronted by consulting the exchange of letters of the governor of Cuyo with the Carrera family (los hermanos José Miguel, Juan José y Luis) and the authorities of Buenos Aires together with a repertoire of records that attest to the processing of the conflict in the jurisdiction housed in local archives. From their restitution emanate firm evidences of the exercise of authority by San Martín over the notions of sovereignty and territory that founded it, in which the link or dependence of the jurisdiction or Province of Cuyo with the Supreme Government of Buenos Aires prevails.