{"id":990,"date":"2009-12-04T13:05:41","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T16:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=990"},"modified":"2021-08-17T11:28:27","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T09:28:27","slug":"359-bernardo-de-irigoyen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=990","title":{"rendered":"359. bernardo de irigoyen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Bernardo de Irigoyen, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200805C71.jpg\" alt=\"Bernardo de Irigoyen, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An important &amp; influential politician of his time, <strong>Bernardo de Irigoyen <\/strong>is one of the many figures in Argentine history who have fallen from collective memory. Time to change that. Born in Buenos Aires in 1822, De Irigoyen supported Rosas &amp; after completing a law degree was sent by &#8220;the Restorer&#8221; to negotiate border problems with Chile. Even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=1104\"><strong>Domingo Sarmiento<\/strong><\/a>, then exiled in Chile, admired De Irigoyen&#8217;s diplomatic skill.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Bernardo de Irigoyen, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200711G52.jpg\" alt=\"Bernardo de Irigoyen, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After returning to Buenos Aires, the <em>Acuerdo de San Nicol\u00e1s<\/em> was a direct result of De Irigoyen&#8217;s negotiation ability, bringing provinces of the Confederation together and forming the basis for a later constitution&#8230; no matter if Buenos Aires rejected it \ud83d\ude42 And even after Rosas left Argentina for good, the new regime valued De Irigoyen. He was head of the Treasury under Sarmiento&#8217;s presidency &amp; Minister of Foreign Relations for both <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=3534\">Avellaneda<\/a><\/strong> &amp; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=3053\">Roca<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Bernardo de Irigoyen, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200711G53.jpg\" alt=\"Bernardo de Irigoyen, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When De Irigoyen ran for President in 1886, Roca supported <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=224\">Miguel Ju\u00e1rez Celman<\/a> instead of his former minister. Big mistake. The <strong>1890 Revolution<\/strong> <em>might <\/em>not have happened had Roca supported De Irigoyen&#8230; an interesting what-if scenario. Defeated, De Irigoyen took a break from public life until the formation of the <em>Uni\u00f3n C\u00edvica<\/em> political party. He served in a number of national &amp; provincial positions until his death in 1906.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Bernardo de Irigoyen, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200711G51.jpg\" alt=\"Bernardo de Irigoyen, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The family vault shows few signs of maintenance these days. For someone who dedicated his entire life to serving the nation, it&#8217;s amazing that this mausoleum is not listed as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?page_id=164\">National Historic Monument<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Bernardo de Irigoyen, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200711D02.jpg\" alt=\"Bernardo de Irigoyen, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And besides a street name, the only memory of Bernardo de Irigoyen in Buenos Aires is an Art Deco statue in Plaza Rodr\u00edguez Pe\u00f1a:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Bernardo de Irigoyen, Plaza Rodr\u00edguez Pe\u00f1a\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200612B02.jpg\" alt=\"Bernardo de Irigoyen, Plaza Rodr\u00edguez Pe\u00f1a\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Bernardo de Irigoyen, Plaza Rodr\u00edguez Pe\u00f1a\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200408D03.jpg\" alt=\"Bernardo de Irigoyen, Plaza Rodr\u00edguez Pe\u00f1a\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An important &amp; influential politician of his time, Bernardo de Irigoyen is one of the many figures in Argentine history who have fallen from collective&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=990\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">359. bernardo de irigoyen<\/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":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politicians","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990","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=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6563,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions\/6563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}