Afro Culture Buenos Aires

Afro Culture Buenos Aires, all the information about a culture that remained forgotten for a long time, under the wake of the European.

The Afro legacy and history were overshadowed by the constant desire to maintain a more European than African identity. The process to establish that our country is also Afro is not an easy task.

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May 25th in Argentina

May 25th in Argentina, a summary of the history of our Revolution.

Let’s go back to 1810. At the time, Buenos Aires was the capital of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, a colony of vast territories which included what we today know as Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay and parts of Brazil. This territory was under the responsibility of Viceroy Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros. This man appointed by the Supreme Central Junta of Spain, ruled the colony and represented the king. When news came that the King of Spain had abdicated in favor of Napoleon and that the Junta had been dissolved, many patriots argued that Viceroy Cisneros had no legitimacy and had to be removed.

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