A not so minor correction on the battle of Pavón

["Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky" <Gorojovsky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

En relación a Re: Mercantilism: Britain & Spain (was Re: the ro,
el 26 Nov 00, a las 20:37, Yoshie Furuhashi dijo:

> "The struggle for the constitution in Argentina is the story
> of four decades of conflict between Buenos Aires, opposed to a federal
> government, and the rest of the provinces, which found in that system the
> best protection for their economic and political interests....[However]
> conflicts of interest remained and Buenos Aires resisted its integration
> until 1860..." (at
><http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ilas/publications/papers/negretto.html>).

In fact, 1860 did not mark the integration of Buenos Aires to Argentina but the
subjection of Argentina to Buenos Aires. I have sent some postings on this 
issue,
long ago, but I think that the early archives of Marxmail have kept them alive. 
True
integration had to wait until 1880. The battle of Pavón, though formally put an 
end
to the secession of Buenos Aires in 1853-54, meant in practice that the 
oligarchy in
Buenos Aires had a free hand to send murderous expeditions to the inland 
provinces
and to launch, together with the slavocrats of Brazil and the British Empire, 
the
genocidal war of Paraguay.

Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
gorojovsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx