Marshal Francisco Solano López had decided to intervene in aid of the Uruguayan constitutional government of the white party that had been invaded by the Empire together with the colorados of the general Venancio Flores. The war between the Republic of Paraguay and the Empire of Brazil was already underway since December 1864. Now Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay would start a total war against Paraguay. This treaty would be remembered as the Treaty of the Triple Alliance, or as a brilliant Argentine thinker, Juan Bautista Alberdi, said, the "Treaty of the Triple Infamy". It would be the secret articles (for a few months) of this treaty that would seal the fate of that part of the continent, in what would be the bloodiest, most ruthless and cruel conflict in its history, since they would force the Paraguayan people to fight now, not out of fear or loyalty to its president-marshal Francisco Solano López, but for its very survival as a Nation. " In 24 hours to the barracks, in fifteen days in Corrientes, in three months in Asunción!" Rufino Jacinto de Elizalde stares into the eyes of his interlocutors and asks: is everyone in agreement with this?Ĭarlos de Castro affirms without looking back, while Octaviano de Almeida Rosa stands up impatiently and expresses himself: "I hope your president fulfills his promise."Ī few days before, the President of the Argentine Republic, General Bartolomé Mitre, had harangued the crowd gathered in front of his Buenos Aires residence:
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