{"id":560,"date":"2009-02-06T05:45:27","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T08:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=560"},"modified":"2009-02-06T05:45:27","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T08:45:27","slug":"297-aristobulo-del-valle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=560","title":{"rendered":"297. arist\u00f3bulo del valle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Arist\u00f3bulo del Valle, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200902B31.jpg\" alt=\"Arist\u00f3bulo del Valle, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Born in 1845 to a rural family who had supported Rosas &amp; later participated in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=196\">Conquista del Desierto<\/a>, Arist\u00f3bulo del Valle was sent to Buenos Aires for a university education. While studying law, the devasting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=258\">war with Paraguay<\/a> erupted. Del Valle dropped everything to participate then returned to complete his degree.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With recognized literary &amp; debating proficiency, it didn&#8217;t take long for del Valle to select a cause&#8212;universal male suffrage&#8212;&amp; move into national politics. Surrounded with friends like Leandro Alem, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=1187\">Dardo Rocha<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=2880\">Carlos Pellegrini<\/a>, his beliefs became increasingly radical for the time. With Alem, del Valle founded the <strong><em>Uni\u00f3n C\u00edvica<\/em><\/strong> political party &amp; participated in the <strong>1890 Revolution<\/strong> against <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=224\">President Ju\u00e1rez Celman<\/a>&#8230; while serving as Senator. A strong sense of duty forced him to resign since he had taken part in anti-government actions while serving as an elected official, but the public absolved any guilt by re-electing him. Two plaques commemorate his political acts of the time:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Arist\u00f3bulo del Valle, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200806H08.jpg\" alt=\"Arist\u00f3bulo del Valle, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Arist\u00f3bulo del Valle, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200806H07.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Three years later under the presidency of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=900\">Luis S\u00e1enz Pe\u00f1a<\/a>, del Valle was asked to serve as Minister of War &amp; propose cabinet changes. From this position he tried to incorporate Alem &amp; others into the government so they could officially institute changes denied by the earlier, failed revolution. But Alem refused &amp; another revolution in 1893 was planned&#8230; without the participation of del Valle this time. Del Valle passed away soon after in 1896 in his office at the School of Law.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This tomb was one of the first two ever to be declared a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?page_id=164\">National Historic Monument<\/a> in 1945. Without many windows &amp; tinted door glass, it appears to be yet another neglected tomb. But glancing inside reveals one of the most beautiful statues in the cemetery&#8230; preserved from the elements (although a bit dusty) &amp; missed by almost every visitor [see comments for more info about the statue]:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Arist\u00f3bulo del Valle, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200806H09.jpg\" alt=\"Arist\u00f3bulo del Valle, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born in 1845 to a rural family who had supported Rosas &amp; later participated in the Conquista del Desierto, Arist\u00f3bulo del Valle was sent to&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=560\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">297. arist\u00f3bulo del valle<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-politicians","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}