Juan Manuel de Rosas was a man who was the governor of Buenos Aires (1835-52). He was head of the federalist party and held a 17 year old dictatorship. After the battle of Caseros Rosas was forced to flee to England where he spent the rest of his life as a farmer. Unitarios wanted a centralized government with no participation of other provinces. The Federales supported the distribution of the external commerce taxes among the provinces. The church was a willing ally when it came to the federalists. El matadero is written towards the end of the 1830’s. It was during Lent, and Buenos Aires was in a shortage of meat. Church has taken over both consciences and stomachs, Church should be able to forbid wrongdoing. Echeverría describes el matadero as fierce and outspoken story that opposed the Federalist regime. Federalist worked in the slaughterhouse where they slaughtered Unitarians. The bull was used in a metaphor to describe how the Unitarians were acting. At the end of the story, the Unitarian was tied down to a table in the form of a cross started gushing out blood from his mouth and his nostrils and poured out on both sides of the table.
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