One of the best travel books emerged from an Argentine pen is "Travels in Europe, Africa and North America" ¿¿1845/1847 "by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento. At the time of leaving for Europe, Algeria and North America, Sarmiento, 34, had already written "Facundo", suffered political exile twice, and had a unique cultural background in the southern republics recently independent from the colonial system. Spanish. His Chilean friend Manuel Montt "at the time Minister and then President of Chile" had entrusted him, in the words of Sarmiento himself, "to analyze the institutions that retard or promote…mehr
One of the best travel books emerged from an Argentine pen is "Travels in Europe, Africa and North America" ¿¿1845/1847 "by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento. At the time of leaving for Europe, Algeria and North America, Sarmiento, 34, had already written "Facundo", suffered political exile twice, and had a unique cultural background in the southern republics recently independent from the colonial system. Spanish. His Chilean friend Manuel Montt "at the time Minister and then President of Chile" had entrusted him, in the words of Sarmiento himself, "to analyze the institutions that retard or promote their progress." The "Travels ...", written in letters addressed to different recipients, narrate the impressions and experiences of the stages of the journey - Montevideo, Rio, Paris, Spain, Algeria, etc. - as well as the reflections that they provoke in the author. His direct knowledge of the Argentine dictatorship, complemented by that of the civil war and the siege of Montevideo, lead him to wonder the reasons for the roots of what we now call caudillismo and the struggle of factions that tear apart Hispanic America: the proliferation of armed gangs whose bosses could be described as gauderios (this is lazy) "if instead of singing like the cicada they did not stop at spilling blood." Only European trade and the arrival of new immigrants can, in his opinion, inject life into a corrupt system and condemned to repeat itself by people who believe because they do not try to think.
1811-1888, Argentine statesman, educator, and author, president of the republic (1868-74). An opponent of Juan Manuel de Rosas, I have spent years of exile in Chile, becoming known as a journalist and an educational reformer. He toured Europe and North America and was impressed by the school system and the political organization of the United States, an experience that marked his future life as a politician and statesman. He helped Urquiza to overthrow Rosas in 1852 and became active in politics. In Oct., 1868, I succeeded Bartolomé Miter as president. His administration was marked by the conclusion of the War of the Triple Alliance against Paraguay, by material progress, and, especially, by the organization of schools and the reform of educational methods. Sarmiento was succeeded by Nicolás Avellaneda. His essays on education and politics, historical studies, and critical works are distinguished by crisp style. Best known is Facundo, o Civilización i * barbarie (1845; tr. Life in the Argentine Republic in the Days of the Tyrants, nominally a biography of Juan Facundo Quiroga, but actually an in-depth study of caudillismo, personalism in politics.
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