Elections are held in Entre Rios in…

Elections are held in Entre Rios in López Jordán’s absence, but without Federalist candidates, who are barred, and with very few voters.

The new governor, Emilio Duportal, throws all Federalists out of office, even out of the governmental positions of priests (the Roman Catholic Church being the established church) and teachers.

Public lands are sold at supposedly public auctions, but actually reserved for friends of the government; many settlers ware ejected from their lands, and the police, recruited from outsiders, commit all manner of assaults and other crimes against the citizenry.

Ashamed, Duportal resigns and the province falls into the hands of Leónidas Echagüe, son of the former governor Pascual Echagüe, who has none of the moral qualms of his predecessor.