Andres De Santa Cruz and the Peru-Bolivian Confederation: between modernization and legislative frenzy

Abstract

Within the context of the attempts of modernization of Peru during the first stage of the 19th century, Andrés de Santa Cruz stands out. Figure opposed both phenotypically and in terms of socioeconomic interests of the elite that at that time ruled the country.

The author, throughout the text, develops the figure of Santa Cruz linked to the context of the time and his modernizing attempts from the economic and, above all, legislative. In the same way, it describes the multiple national and international resistances from the fields of justice, politics and war.