This Friday the dissertation was given by professor and historian Gastón Buet, in the room of the Martiniano Leguizamón Provincial Historical Museum, in Paraná.
With a large audience that filled the main exhibition hall and which also functions as the auditorium of the Martiniano Leguizamón Provincial Historical Museum, the talk called “General Justo José de Urquiza, Founding Father of the Republic” was held on Friday afternoon. Federal”. The activity was organized in commemoration of the recent anniversary of May 1, 1851, the day of the Urquiza Pronouncement, and the sanction of the National Constitution, on the same date but in 1853. Access was free and the proposal was carried out by the museum and the Secretary of Culture of Entre Ríos.
The speaker, Gastón Buet, is a professor and historian from Entre Ríos, corresponding member of the Academy of History of Venezuela and the Academy of Military History of Peru. Buet is also president of the Friends of Camp Calá Association (Rocamora), from where he carries out intense dissemination and dissemination of the ideology of the winner of the Battle of Caseros.
“Urquiza’s legacy should be read as unrestricted respect for republicanism, respect for the institutions of democracy, for the National Constitution, respect for private property, free enterprise; he is a liberal,” Buet explained. And he added that “Urquiza was a classic liberal, he believed in private capital, in a State that helped in the classic style, with infrastructure and that the private sector invested the wealth; and with the conviction that, in turn, education was the basis of a Nation.”
Professor Buet spoke about Urquiza’s life in front of a crowded auditorium made up of students, researchers, cultural leaders and the general public who were interested in learning more details about the most important historical figure in the province.
Present on behalf of the Ministry of Culture were Natalia Prado, General Director of Sociocultural Programs, and Gisela Elizabeth Correa, Coordinator of the Martiniano Leguizamón Museum, who welcomed him and formally presented the academic.
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The speaker gave a detailed overview of Urquiza’s biography, from his birth to his death, on the one hand; but he substantially expanded on the milestones that established him as a statesman who left a legacy as a politician, military man, businessman and national organizer of the Republic.
His career as a provincial deputy, his governorships, his leadership from a very young age as a soldier and his modern business vision were some of the most important points.
There was also space to give little-known details of the Battle of Caseros and Pavón, basing the latter on why it should not be considered a defeat. Urquiza fought 15 battles throughout his career, winning them all.
He also dedicated several moments to explain how the history of Mitrista Buenos Aires and the historical revisionism that vindicates Rosas have tried to make invisible and denigrate the prominence of Urquiza as a pillar of Argentine History.
In this sense, Buet highlighted three qualities of the general, which are not always highlighted: as co-author of the National Constitution, First President and Father of the National Union (a title granted to him by the Congress of the Argentine Confederation). And he expressed the need to create a third historical current that puts Urquiza’s contribution as a republican into real perspective.
