De la Suprema Junta de Gobierno al Estado soberano. La independencia de Cartagena de Indias (1810-1812).

• Main Authors: Roberto González Arana., Edwin Monsalvo Mendoza.
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad de los Andes 2010-05-01
• Series: Historia Crítica
• Subjects: Independence; Junta de Gobierno; Cadiz Courts; State; Cartagena.
• Online Access: http://historiacritica.uniandes.edu.co/view.php/660/index.php?id=660

This work describes the path followed by the Cartagena Junta from its formation to its declaration of independence. It aims to show what factors conditioned its creation and then the maintenance of governability in the midst of the metropolitan political crisis. As an hypothesis, it suggests that the Junta maintained its loyalty to the Council and the Courts until the moment in which the latter did not recognize it. The Cartagena Junta's decision to declare its independence, therefore, was a reaction to the rejection of its petitions.