¿Urquiza, un líder que resuelve problemas asumiendo “un gesto viril” o con eficacia despareja? El caso La Paz en el discurso de El argentino de José Hernández

Abstract

This initial exploration article attempts to show the erratic sense of Justo José de Urquiza's exercise of political leadership towards the beginning of the 1860s. Based on the analysis of El Argentino de Paraná, an episode on a local scale that occurred in the department is examined. peace. On the one hand, an attempt is made to prove that this is not an isolated event, but rather that it is part of a larger agenda of conflicts on different scales, local, provincial and national. On the other hand, it is argued that Urquiza's leadership exercise presents uneven effectiveness, since he does not get the strategy to solve the problem right. For this reason, after a year of almost permanent conflict, it must abruptly change its strategy of moderation to one of repression to achieve a point of calm. The basic ingredients of a leader, his leadership exercise, his political vision, his credibility, his popularity, his loyalties are called into question. In this sense, I discuss the position of Bosch who affirms that, with a virile gesture, he manages to end the conflict and in the same quick way as he did in other times.