Diálogos con Mitre sobre la Independencia de Paraguay

Abstract

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.