Domingo Faustino Sarmiento has managed to defeat…

Domingo Faustino Sarmiento has managed to defeat the last known caudillos and also dealt with the fallout of the Triple Alliance War, which had included a decrease in national production due to the death of so many soldiers who were formerly workers and an outburst of diseases brought by soldiers from the battlefield, such as cholera and yellow fever.

Argentina has prospered under the administration of the education-minded Sarmiento, who, in a continuation of the Mitre administrations’ policies, has encouraged immigration, built railroads, established a public education system and improved livestock breeding.

Mitre’s opposition to Autonomist Party nominee Adolfo Alsina, whom he views as a veiled Buenos Aires separatist, leads Mitre to run for the presidency again, though the seasoned Alsina outmaneuvers him by fielding Nicolás Avellaneda, a moderate lawyer from remote Catamarca Province, and Sarmiento’s former Minister of Education.

The electoral college meets on April, 12, 1874, and awards Mitre only three provinces, including Buenos Aires.