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- Title
La división de la provincia de Antioquia en medio de la guerra civil de 1851.
- Authors
Jurado, Juan Carlos Jurado
- Abstract
The subdivision of the Antioquia province by the liberal government of José Hilario López (1849-1853) was one of the determining factors of the 1851 Civil War in Nueva Granada. The fragmentation of the territory in three new provinces, of which the capital cities were to be Santa Fé de Antioquia, Medellín and Rionegro, had four main motivations. Firstly, the liberal decentralization policy that aimed to bring the administration closer to citizens and strengthen democracy. Secondly, the election policy, because by creating two new divisions where liberalism predominated, the intention was to weaken the electoral power of the Conservative party concentrated in the capital city, Medellín. Thirdly, subdivision was in the economic interests of the liberal business sector of Rionegro with its aspirations of autonomy and improved status with regard to the Conservatives of Medellín. Fourthly, subdivision aimed to remove all political and ideological influence of the Jesuits in the region, through the liberal predomination in the two new capital cities. The subdivision of the province was the expression of the internal divisions and fragmentation of the region's elite. However it also served to make visible a common history and a sentiment of regional unity, aspects that were fundamental to the configuration of the region and the consolidation of its elites in the second half of the XIX century. This period of war saw the emergence of regional configurations that were politically charged with aspirations of autonomy under the federal-centralist system.
- Subjects
ANTIOQUIA (Colombia); COLOMBIA; COLOMBIAN history; CIVIL war; FEDERAL government; DECENTRALIZATION in government
- Publication
Historia y Sociedad (01218417), 2009, Issue 17, p121
- ISSN
0121-8417
- Publication type
Article