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The role in the contest of the then president of the Argentine Republic, Bartolomé Mitre, was as decisive as it was controversial, even for his contemporaries and colleagues from the liberal political tradition. In this brief essay, I specifically address three crucial questions. In the first place, his role in Venancio Flores's invasion of the Banda Oriental. Then, the main section of the work will revolve around the formation of the Triple Alliance. Finally, I review Mitre’s leading role in the frustrated peace negotiations. Through these events I outline what were some of Mitre's intentions with the war and its actors, the distance between his intentions and the course of events, the ideas that guided him, his responsibilities, and the results for his political and military career. Helping the Colorado invasion seems like an unforced, mistaken decision, even though the great costs of the war of the triple alliance cannot necessarily be deduced from it. The alliance was the product of pressure from the Empire, but also a decision that the Argentine president may have not taken. It was a very risky, almost personal bet, which would have great costs and would not turn out for him as expected. In the case of the peace attempt, Mitre appears almost bound before the extreme postures of the Emperor and the Marshal, a toy of the empire of circumstances. Although he could have made a better offer to López better, the marshal would hardly have agreed to leave Paraguay and Pedro II would hardly have stopped the war.

When the political map of the Argentine Republic was transformed, as a result of the Battle of Pavón (1861), the impacts and influences of Mithraism in the province of Corrientes were decisive. From there, the imprint of the Corrientes liberal sector, which sympathized with Bartolomé Miter, was taking on a greater dimension in the influence of the historical evolution of the moment, reaching one of its culminating points with the Provincial Administrations of José Manuel Pampín and Manuel Ignacio Lagraña in the years 1861-65 and thus continue until the beginning of the War of the Triple Alliance. The article analyzes how the election of an urquicista, in the person of Evaristo López, for the Executive Power, will increase political disputes and, from then on, conflict, both electoral and partisan, will be consolidated, which will have the Mitristas as protagonists, determining the provincial political action in the years that will elapse after the Triple Alliance contest against Paraguay.

The purpose of this article is to analyze the dialogue that took place between Paraguayan intellectuals of the post-war period and the Argentine historian and general Bartolomé Mitre on Paraguayan independence through his writings. We start from the hypothesis that Paraguayan men of letters needed to dialogue with Mitre. This "need for dialogue" is due to two aspects, one of a historiographic nature and the other, due to the role that Mitre played in the recent war, where Paraguay had confronted the Triple Alliance. Articles by Cecilio Báez of 1891, by Manuel Domínguez and Manuel Gondra of 1894 and the book by Blas Garay of 1897 are analyzed.

In the spring of November 1973, in Asuncion, Paraguay, more precisely at the Center for Social Studies of the Catholic University (today the Center for Anthropological Studies of the Catholic University - CEADUC), the Journal Estudios Paraguayos (REsPy) was officially launched. Dr. Juan Oscar Usher, regarding the importance that an initiative such as the one inaugurated should attain with the passage of time.

The following text presents the results of a research that analyzes the journalistic discourse of the newspaper ABC Color in the treatment of information related to the demands of peasant organizations in November 2020 in Paraguay. The qualitative analysis has as its main reference the theoretical and methodological proposal of Van Dijk (1999) which is the critical discourse analysis, CDA. As a research technique, a content analysis of all the news, as well as the editorials of the newspaper of November 2020, of the printed and digital versions that deal with the peasant actions claiming compliance with an agreement of "economic reactivation" of peasant family agriculture signed between representatives of peasant organizations and the executive branch, represented by the government of Mario Abdo Benítez, was carried out as a research technique. Among the findings of the research, it was found that the journalistic discourse of the ABC newspaper presents manifest subjectivities that point to the criminalization of the mobilized peasant sector and has the intention of installing mental models aimed at the stigmatization of the Paraguayan peasantry.

This article has investigated the concept of the "internal enemy" in Paraguay. Through the qualitative methodological application of documentary review, it was possible to trace its origins in French cooperation with Latin American regimes, intensified in the 1970s, in the operations framed within the framework of Plan Condor. In Paraguay, it took shape during the dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner (1954 to 1989), under the figure of the "communist", in the Cold War era. Already in democratic times, the "internal enemy" moved to other sectors, mainly peasant and indigenous communities, who criticized the system of rural agro-livestock export production. They were called "invaders" by the groups in power and were the ones who provoked "legal insecurity" by affecting "private property". Thus, although stronismo ended more than 30 years ago, the "internal enemy" was still active, and the construction of a stigmatizing idea/image was carried out for any citizen opposed to hegemonic discourses or practices of the social body.

Reaching the Argentinian presidency in 1862, Bartolomé Mitre faced his most challenging task in the war against the republican neighbour of Paraguay. While he was running the Allied forces, the victorious General in Pavón had to deal with not only the enemies’ resistance but also the distrust of Brazilian allies, the criticism upon the lead of the conflict and the national uprisings at the provinces. Even though the war against Paraguay had contributed to consolidating the national state and spreading Mitre’s name beyond the four countries involved, the conflict ruined his political capital conquered at the fights for the national organization. Mitre’s candidate defeat at the presidential election in 1868 and even Mitre’s in 1874 confirms the decline of his icon and of his nationalist party. Therefore, this article aims to analyze Bartolome Mitre’s performance in Paraguay during and, mainly, after the war against Paraguay. In order to do that, a broad bibliographic referential and periodicals of the four countries involved were consulted, especially from Buenos Aires, such as La Nación, La Tribuna, El Nacional and El Mosquito. From the analyse which had been made it is argued that his performance in relation to Paraguay ensured, simultaneously, his redemption with the victory reached in Cerro Corá, and his downfall, after a failed revolutionary attempt in the city of Junín.

Bartolomé Mitre's tenure as president of Argentina and supreme commander of the forces of the Triple Alliance made him a prominent player in the geopolitics of the Platense region. He published a significant number of pamphlets - historiographical texts, journalistic articles, harangues delivered to different groups - that legitimized his political, diplomatic, and military actions. The purpose of this article is to analyse his complex relationship with Paraguay in order to identify his role in contemporary events and his interpretations of the future.  I propose to examine this two-faceted relationship - author and actor in history - based on a general review of his intellectual production and correspondence.

The Revista de Estudios Paraguayos (Journal of Paraguayan Studies) celebrated 50 years of uninterrupted publication, and for this purpose, the Anthropological Studies Center of the Catholic University - CEADUC held a commemorative event in the UC's Aula Magna on Thursday, November 24. The opening remarks were given by Father Rector Dr. Narciso Velázquez Ferreira, who remembered the initiators of the Revista de Estudios Paraguayos "and what a beautiful name! Paraguayan Studies, because it inherently contains philosophical thoughts, social vision, and anthropological orientation. Today, CEADUC is celebrating because they have spent half a century with that task and with that stamped commitment, 100 issues because they have made an effort to have at least two issues per year for 50 years, and they have already reached 100 publications." He emphasized that the scientific work carried out with those publications can motivate the generation of knowledge, great sociologists, great scholars in various topics, for studies of the Paraguayan man, for studies of the problems we have and for the needs we need to face. Meanwhile, Father Nilo Zárate, director of CEADUC, highlighted the prestige enjoyed by the journal within the social sciences, and that anyone who wants to delve into topics of Paraguay's social reality, authored by Paraguayan or foreign authors, cannot avoid consulting this journal, now facilitated by the cataloging and digitization of the magazine, a monumental work carried out by the editor, Dr. Carlos Peris, which was declared of national interest, he stressed. During the event, great thinkers who contributed to the production of the magazine were remembered, and recognition plaques were given to Prof. Dr. José Zanardini, Prof. Dr. Carlos Aníbal Peris Castiglioni, Prof. Dr. Ignacio Telesca, Prof. Dr. Javier Numan Caballero Merlo, Prof. Dr. Luis Antonio Fretes Carreras, Prof. Lic. Darío Sarah, and Mirian Aurora Gaona Martínez. For the artistic moment, tenor José Mongelos accompanied by the National Congress of Paraguay's Symphony Orchestra performed a selection of pieces.

Indigenous populations in urban contexts constitute an increasingly present actor in the social, political, and cultural reality of cities in Paraguay. The present text is the advance of a more extensive investigation that delves into the identity determinants of the same, settled in the capital Asunción and its Metropolitan Area, through the theoretical approach and the empirical anchors of the elements of the observed reality. Categories such as identity, ethnic identity, ethnic borders, collective identity, land and territory, allow us to understand and configure the edges of a social phenomenon that has been strongly projected since the 1990s and is positioned towards the first quarter of the 21st century, as an issue that if it is not addressed seriously and rigorously with respect for consecrated and customary rights, it can become a tinderbox at the gates of central political power. It exposes the statistical circumstances of the communities, settlements and clans; outlines the visible characteristics of the progressive constitution of a collective identity that starts from feeling indigenous as a determining and cohesive imperative; explores the intricacies of the tensions with the political power that initially displays an action and management of denial towards the recognition of the existence of indigenous people living in cities; and anchors the reflection on the problem of land and territory in general and in the urban sphere, its possession and intrinsic link with the constitution of indigenous societies as part of an ancestral totalizing and totalized culture: its cosmogonic configuration and its dynamic identities.