Soberanía y castigo en Charcas. La represión militar y judicial de las juntas de La Plata y La Paz, 1808-1810

Abstract

The military repression of the juntas of La Plata and La Paz in 1810, as much as its judicial endorsement through convictions of diverse nature, referred to the resolution of a double intra-continental conflict of authority and jurisdictional influences: between viceroys and intendentes against other bodies like the audiencia; and between the viceroyalties of Río de La Plata and Peru. From the transformation of Charcas through violence into an insurance for the survival and conservation of viceroyal spaces, powers and capacities came the lost chance for a royal delegative institution -the audiencia- to legitimately assume undivided sovereignty, thereby fostering its dispersion through the cabildos.