Spanish Government

In addition, the lobby of the Peruvian merchants apart an attempt to don Manuel Frias, Attorney-general of the provinces of the silver, by the Crown to obtain Spanish an authorization to make Buenos Aires traded with Brazil and Spain. For the above mentioned reasons, the action taken by Cevallos in 1777 September cracked the efforts of Peruvian merchants by strangling the commercial life of the port of Buenos Aires, which was born and grown from smuggling and the link with Britain. Classical historians emphasize that the fall of the Junta of Seville in the hands of Napoleon was the trigger that Mariano Moreno and Cornelio Saavedra took advantage to drive the movement of May. From the 14th until the 25th of this month, in 1810, a series of events that ended with the appointment of the Government without the viceroy occurred: the first Board.

River Plate historians could never finalize the debate on what were the ideas and motivations which inspired notables from Buenos Aires to express the patriotic cry in that revolutionary day of May 25, 1810. Between stories of professionals, military, masons, smugglers, Jesuits newly expelled, the Argentines were forming a romantic idea of what happened in the Cabildo Abierto (which was not so democratic, rather was oligarchic), because only were summoned to the Assembly those who had properties, while the village was waiting outside the plaza. The majority agrees that the revolutionary trigger was not more than the fall of Spain in the hands of Napoleon Bonaparte and detract from other possible influences that yes they played prominent roles in the struggles against the Spanish Royal troops and national organization. It is officially defined that began the week of May 14 with the arrival to the port of Buenos Aires boat Misletoe, English flag, bringing fresh news of the old continent. The newspapers of time, wrote that the Board of Sevilla, last Spanish Government agency fell into the hands of Bonaparte which went on to govern much of the Iberian territory.