Qualla: Congress of Tucumán https://qualla.com/congress-of-tucuman en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:39:57 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/6/e/1/x/congress-of-tucuman-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Congress of Tucumán https://qualla.com/congress-of-tucuman Congress of Tucumán: Introduction https://qualla.com/congress-of-tucuman/ Photo credit Angel Paganelli (1832-1928), Public domain. On July 9, 1816, in the front room of a private house in San Miguel de Tucuman, thirty-three men signed a country into being. They were lawyers and friars, doctors and provincial delegates, and they had gathered far from the coast on purpose - inland, away from the factional storms of Buenos Aires. The house belonged to a local widow, Francisca Bazan de Laguna, and it would never again be ordinary. With their signatures, the deputies declared the independence of the United Provinces of South America from the Spanish Empire. The date is still Argentina's Independence Day, and the building, rebuilt and preserved, is known to every Argentine schoolchild as the Casa de Tucuman.

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/e/1/x/congress-of-tucuman-wp/6e1x-congress-of-tucum-n-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Congress of Tucumán: Six Years of Limbo https://qualla.com/congress-of-tucuman/ Photo credit Francisco Fortuny, Public domain. Independence had been a long time coming, and it was anything but certain. The May Revolution of 1810 had swept aside the Spanish viceroy and replaced him with a local junta, but for six years the provinces had hovered in an uneasy middle ground - self-governing in practice, yet ...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/e/1/x/congress-of-tucuman-wp/6e1x-congress-of-tucum-n-six-years-of-limbo.mp3 0:06 2 full Congress of Tucumán: Who Was in the Room - and Who Was Not https://qualla.com/congress-of-tucuman/ Photo credit anonymous, Public domain. The thirty-three deputies came from across a vast territory: from Buenos Aires, Cordoba, and Mendoza; from Salta, Jujuy, and Catamarca; from San Juan and La Rioja; and from the provinces of Upper Peru, today part of Bolivia, who sent their representatives despite the war raging a...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/e/1/x/congress-of-tucuman-wp/6e1x-congress-of-tucum-n-who-was-in-the-room-and-who-was-not.mp3 0:06 3 full Congress of Tucumán: A Name for a Country Not Yet Born https://qualla.com/congress-of-tucuman/ Photo credit Julio Vila y Prades, Public domain. The congress was a deliberative body in the fullest, most exhausting sense. Its presidency rotated month to month, and because the deputies were free to set their own agenda, the debates ran long and tangled. When the moment came, on July 9, the man presiding was Francisco Narcis...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/e/1/x/congress-of-tucuman-wp/6e1x-congress-of-tucum-n-a-name-for-a-country-not-yet-born.mp3 0:06 4 full Congress of Tucumán: After the Declaration https://qualla.com/congress-of-tucuman/ Photo credit Lola Mora (1866 - 1936) (mural) / Cambalachero (foto), Public domain. Declaring independence was the easy part; agreeing on how to govern proved far harder. The debates turned to the form the young state should take and where its power should reside - the same questions, centralist versus federalist, that would tear at the country for decades. The ...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/e/1/x/congress-of-tucuman-wp/6e1x-congress-of-tucum-n-after-the-declaration.mp3 0:06 5 full Congress of Tucumán: The House That Remains https://qualla.com/congress-of-tucuman/ Photo credit loco085, CC BY-SA 2.0. The original house did not survive intact, but its memory was too important to lose. It was rebuilt, declared a National Monument, and today stands restored as a museum at the heart of San Miguel de Tucuman, a city of more than half a million in the green sugar country of the nor...

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