Manuel Dorrego, a pioneer in the defense of press freedom

Assuming his position as governor of Buenos Aires in August 1827, said Manuel Dorrego: “If something has the fate that I am going to occupy, it is involved with the happy reorganization of our province (…).

The trust with which I have been honored is such a great weight, that I will not download from it but consecrating my few lights and even my own existence to the conservation and promotion of our institutions and the respect and security of freedoms.

To arrive at such high ends, my means will be: religious obedience to laws, energy and activity to fulfill them, and rational deference to the advice of the good ”(1)

This was received by Mercantile Gazette: “Yesterday he has been appointed by the H. Legislature of the Province for Governor owner Don Manuel Dorrego. Of the representatives who attended the room obtained 31 votes.

The lover of his homeland, who sincerely wanted the complete reconciliation of the differences that have mediated between the capital and the provinces, It must be congratulated by the successful choice that in line with the general opinion has made the provincial HJ. (…)

The promotions he obtained in the military career have not been the product of the favor but Tax paid to its value and merits.” (2)

One of his first measures was dictated in favor of the weakest, the gauchos and pawns of rooms.

On May 8, 1828 he approved in the Legislature his Freedom of Printing Project that prohibited the government from applying any type of prior censorship and after the publications of the press.

Perhaps at that time he remembered his notable era of passionate journalist when he wrote articles like this, published in The tribuneon October 1, 1826:

“Do not Azora, aristocrats, for this appearance. The name in which this newspaper comes to light can only be fearsome for those who tax with the substance of the peoples; for those who make shameful traffic, disappointing them in the enjoyment of their most expensive interests;

for those who refer to its ambitious sights and personal aggrandizement; In short, for those who, without taking advantage of the lessons they have received in the School of misfortune, preserve firm to adopt the same means, that they used yesteryear, to dominate, instead of protecting, to destroy, instead of creating. ”

It is interesting to compare Dorrego’s attitude to the suggestion of participating in a coup against Bernardino Rivadavia and that of his perpetrators.

The same editorial of The tribune He ended up saying: “If in Buenos Aires they had been adopted, to overthrow the pre -existing orderother means than conviction, persuasion and legal routes, even when the change of administration would have achieved,

It would have been destroying, and not building; It would have been using force and not asserting the opinion, because it always shuts up when it speaks that. (…)

It is flattering to expect concord and termination of our domestic differences is the first result of this transition. We were accustomed to seeing the first magistrates descend on one side of the power chair, and walk the dungeons for another.

It was not believed in those cases that had become according to the general interest, if you did not have the sad relief of satisfy resentments and personal revenge.

Let us forget the evils already made, to fix ourselves only in those who stop doing, and in the fair job that will now be made of our resources against the common enemy that enjoyed our disagreements. “

1. Vicente Fidel López, History of the Argentine Republic, Buenos Aires, Sopena, 1960.

2. La Gaceta Mercantil, No. 1130, August 13, 1827.

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