Abstract

LEAL LADRON DE GUEVARA, Alejandra. THE POLITICAL DISCOURSE OF MANUEL DE SALAS: CRITERIA FOR THE REFORMIST BUDGET IN CHILE IN THE LATIN AMERICAN INDEPENDENTIST CONTEXT. Rev.hist.educ.latinoam. [online]. 2014, vol.16, n.23, pp.175-186. ISSN 0122-7238.

From the cultural heterogeneity and the vital needs of Chilean people in the beggining of the nineteenth century -as in all kingdoms of America- there is the desire to be organized as a free nation (Escobar, 1976). However, giving priority to the politic actions to do so, it can be understood that the permanence of the Spanish King Fernando VII in the power could be considered as a benefit to the economic growth in Chile. Thus, in this study the political and illustrated thought of Manuel de Salas (1754-1841) is gathered. In Salas' work the concepts of the identity and the definition of the political autonomy are exhibited descriptively as two criteria for the institution of the government, restored across the action of the patriots in the struggle for the freedom. In the same way, there is analyzed the beginning that stabilize the Chilean state for the self-government, in which Salas said that stability depends on trade relations with other states as solvent as well it seemed to be Spain. Consequently, there is projected that the development of Salas' actions had the characteristic effects of the enlightened thinking, since the nation and the State are defined by arguments inspired in the declaration of the human rights and of the citizen (1789), such as justice and piety, security and the dignity of man, measured by oppression resistance: the fundamental values that mobilized revolution in the American context.

Keywords : Journal of the education Latin American history; Manuel de Salas; independence; Chile.

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