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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 February 2015
Political patronage was at the very basis of society's functioning in nineteenth-century Latin America, yet we still know very little about its inner dynamics. Recent analyses of national politics have questioned the idea that Latin American elections were restrictive and fraudulent, or that there was no effective citizenship. These studies have widened the understanding of political participation, and have argued persuasively for the agency of those who had been previously reduced to the background. Leading scholars have stressed the importance of early widespread suffrage and electoral mobilization in Latin America, noting that detailed analysis of local power struggles promise to reveal the dynamics of social structures and electoral politics. This new literature has also firmly established that in Latin America the process through which this happened was not linear, as generous voting rights were often restricted over time.
Research was funded by the University of London and was made possible thanks to the generosity of Ada Arricta and Marta Solano at the Instituto Riva Agüero in Lima and the staff of the Archivo Regional del Cuzco. A previous version was presented in LASA Puerto Rico, March 2006 as “Las Elecciones a la diputación de Quispicanchis en 1860.” I am grateful to Eduardo Posada-Carbó, Iñigo García-Bryce and the two anonymous reviewers of The Americas for their comments, as well as to Richard Warren for his help editing the final manuscript. I am particularly indebted to Vincent Peloso for his unwavering support. His insights have greatly improved this work. All shortcomings remain my own.
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32. Mcndiburu’s biographical information can be found in his manuscript Memoirs in the Archivo Histórico del Instituto Riva Agüero.
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38. Letter from Miguel Zavala, Cuzco, LI September 1859, Colección Mendiburu Archivo Histórico del Instituto Riva Agüero (CMAHIRA) 129-2.
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40. Gervacio Mercado had represented Canchis in Congress in 1853, Colección Documental: El Poder Legislativo, p. 352.
41. Justo Mar was the representative for Canas İn 1855 and for Anta in 1860, Colección Documental: El Poder Legislativo, pp. 136, 362.
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44. Letter from Miguel Zavala, CMAHIRA 129-2, fis. 2, 3. Although no letters from any of these men survives, the Prefect made several references to them.
45. In the notary records of Juan Chacón y García held at the ARC a contract signed 1858 shows that Mariano Chacón y Becerra had this post and that he was involved in selling of church land following the decree of February 1856. In this contract it is noted that land, such as the one in this deed could be sold with no public auction or governmental license as long as it was valued under 300 pesos.
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47. Utter from Juan Manuel del Mar, Lima, 24 August 1859, CMAHIRA 190-6.
48. The emphasis is from the original. Letter from Miguel Zavala, 11 September 1859, CMAHIRA 129-2, fl. 3.
49. Barrionuevo was elected and confirmed as the deputy for Chumbivilcas, the underlining is from the original, Ibid.
50. Ibid., fl. 4.
51. Letter from Juan Manuel del Mar, Lima, no date but due to the context it must have been written in 1859, CMAHIRA 190-214.
52. Ibid.
53. Letter from Francisco Garmendia, Cuzco 11 September 1859, CMAHIRA 22-1.
54. The information on Garmendia can be found in the ARC, the papers of the Consejo Provincial del Cuzco 1860-1867, a document that shows he rented large houses in the city of Cuzco where schools functioned. The Padroncillo de predios rústicos shows him as the owner of the hacienda Lucre, later the locale of an important textile factory.
55. For his queries on the Indian vote see Chiaramonti, “A propósito del Debate Herrera-Gátvcz.,” p. 326.
56. Oliva, Roberto Cáceres, “Los Prefectos del Cuzco siglo XIX,” Revista del Archivo Histórico del Cuzco, No. 15, (2000), pp. 121-128,Google Scholar has a complete list of all the Prefects, and the Colección Documental: El Poder Legislativo, p. 356, has him as a Deputy in 1858-1859. By the 1870s he had become a prominent supporter of Pardo. Carmen, Mc Evoy, “Estampillas y Votos: El rol del correo político en una campaña electoral decimonónica,” Histórica (1994), vol. XVIII, no. 1, p. 116.
57. Utter from Francisco Garmendia, Cuzco, 11 September 1859, CMAHIRA 22-1.
58. For his career in Parliament see Colección Documental: El Poder Legislativo, pp. 337, 356. For his stance on Indigenous voting see Chiaramonti, Ciudadanía y representación, p. 313.
59. Letter from José Enrique Gamboa, Cuzco, 25 September 1859, CMAHIRA 5-1.
60. Jose Astete was a landowner in Quispicanchis ARC Padroncillo de predios rústicos for 1865 and Extracto de la Matricula de Predios Rústicos for 1845. Pedro Astete had been the representative for Quispicanchis in 1849, 1851-1852, and 1853, Barrióme Astete held the post İn the National Convention between 1855-1857 see Colección Documental: El Poder Legislativo, pp. 135, 341, 347, 351. Bartolomé Astete was the Prefect of Cuzco during two revolutionary conjunctions for six months in 1843, and between 1854 and 1855, both times appointed by General Miguel de San Román see Cáccres Oliva “Los Prefectos del Cuzco siglo XIX,” p. 125.
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103. Ibid.
104. Letter from José Enrique Gamboa, Cuzco 16 February 1860, CMAHIRA 5–6. Colección Documental: El Poder Legislativo, p. 362 lists Manuel Luna as the representative for Huancavelica, but the Actas de Elecciones Provincias de ApurimaCy Ayacucho y Cuzco in ACP, show him as the representative for Urubamba, as do the letters of Mendiburu.
105. Letter from Manuel Aurelio Orihuela, Cuzco 25 December 1859, CMAHIRA 65–3.
106. Ibid.
107. Ibid.
108. Letter from Manuel Aurelio Orihuela, Cuzco 11 January 1860, CMAHIRA 65–4.
109. Letter from Miguel Zavala, Cuzco 11 February 1860, CMAHIRA 129–6.
110. Ibid.
111. Letter from Miguel Zavala, Cuzco, 25 Decembre 1859, CMAHIRA 129–4.
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117. This was the case of Evaristo Gomez Sanchez from Arequipa who from 1829 on had been a member of every Congress, except 1839, 1851, and 1855 as well as vice-president Juan Manuel del Mar who had represented Cuzco since 1832, with only three exceptions. All the information on members of Congress can be found in the Colección Documental: El Poder Legislativo.
118. Mariano Loli, Manuel Osores and Jose Nicolas Rebaza Colección Documental: El Poder Legislativo.
119. Letter from Domingo Valle Riestra, Tacna, July 1860, CMAHIRA 82–2.
120. In Trujillo Manuel Amadeo Alzadora worked see CMAHIRA 516-1, from Arequipa he received news from Jose Bustamantc CMAHIRA 589–3, and Zavala sent him an acta with more than 700 signatures CMAHIRA 129–11.
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