Construction of Power in Juan Manuel de Rosas

Seeking to analyze the dynamics and the person of Juan Manuel de Rosas in an Argentine socio-historical framework, facing the difficulties of the construction of a legal order that, among other buttresses, is inscribed in the correspondence from Rosas to Facundo Quiroga. Through the epistolary analysis, it was sought to find the man behind the power, where the existence of another Rosas is estimated: the one who loves children, the one who has reciprocal affection with certain Indians and neighbors who serve him, the one who inquired the blessing of his mother, Encarnacion's spouse, Manuelita's father and the grandfather of her English grandchildren. Other roles were found for which the figure of Rosas is not remembered as the creator of a dispensary in his stay in Palermo for his peons and friends without assets. The observed perspective shows affectivity as well as love towards their country, however primary, instinctive and violent, in analogy of firmness, character and impetus.