Juan Manuel De Rosas Beliefs

The indigenous Indian tribes, who relied on a central figure, the chief or emperor, to provide leadership, vision, and governance, have largely influenced the culture of many Latin American countries. Spanish or Portuguese armies defeated Indian tribes, and military commanders replaced the Indian chiefs, a single person remained in control. The medicine man, shaman, or priest carried out religious observance for the tribe; at times providing visions of good and bad to the chief or emperor. Religious visions interpreted by the shaman may influence the leader’s decisions for war, planting, harvesting, justice, and marriages. The combination of religious mythologies and superstitions like thunderstorms, floods, fires, plagues, and visions attributed …show more content…
General Juan Manuel de Rosas, a cattle rancher from the interior, secured a large political following when he challenged the levy of taxes and duties on agricultural products exported through the port of Buenos Aires. The monies collected from interior products only benefited the city of Buenos Aires and not the nation. In 1835 Juan Manuel de Rosas became the leader of Argentina and he imposed a national unity, a federalist system with Buenos Aires as the figurative center while in reality the power was in the rural lands of the cattle barons. Juan Manuel de Rosas represented a national Hegemon for Argentina, supported by the rural populations who knew him well and prospered under his …show more content…
These three overarching themes are intertwined in some nations and separate among others, specifically sovereignty of individuals, regardless of national birthright. In Mexico, accession of the Spaniard Cortez over the Aztec’s Moctezuma II captures the indigenous culture that is the power and personal leadership in a single individual. Argentina typifies the personification of Juan Manuel de Rosas; a single person can become the driving force represented by a choice of the population majority. In Brazil, the rule of the white colonial elites formed an economic cadre of landowners that held decisive power, backed by the Portuguese crown, over the majority of the people regardless of their origin. The people who define themselves as beneath the elites or not connected to the powerful ruling parties are prone to self-deprivation, always distrustful of the ruling party and striving for basic human liberties. The allure of rising to an elite position within a ruling party promotes the continued rise and fall of political regimes, even if the time is power is