The altercations in Tucumán after the expulsion of the Jesuits

Abstract

With the expulsion of the Jesuits from the government of Tucumán, dependent on the viceroyalty of Peru, there were riots in the cities of Jujuy and Salta, in which Lieutenant Colonel Juan Manuel Fernández Campero, governor of the province, was implicated on the one hand , and wounded by a bullet in a skirmish, and by other members of the local elites, considered partisans of the Society of Jesus, who participated for their own benefit in the Juntas created for the sale of Jesuit assets, and which were protected by the Audiencia de Charcas. The Consejo Extraordinario, after ordering the principals involved in those events to be taken to Spain, carried out an investigation that lasted until february 1777, when a real resolution lifted the penalties imposed on the accused of sedition.