Until the tragic event of the War of the Triple Alliance (1865-1870),
the misionera region did not constitute a scope of importance for the
policies of the three states that occupied it partly. Neither
Argentina, nor Paraguay, nor Brazil had obtained precise definitions
respect to the region. The population of the area, on the other hand,
far was to interpret the concept of property to a determined national
state. Rivers as Parana and Uruguay did not constitute any fence for a
racially mixed population that developed the great mobility in the
area and that was recognized by a cultural identity that was connected
in the extinguished reduccional life. Finalized the War of Paraguay,
the national limits and borders were established. The moment agreed
with the internal consolidation of the states of Argentina, Brazil and
Uruguay. For the political sectors leaders, "to nationalize" to the
population from a centralized cultural project and uniform constituted
a priority. Still more in those potentially conflicting zones from an
border perspective. As of September of 1870 the first Supreme Director
del Rio de la Plata, Gervasio Posadas Put when arranging the provincial limit them
, (Misiones happen to be National Territory), annexing each
population establishment from the same one to the province of
Corrientes, happening such to depend on the Interior of the province on
Corrientes In this context that human type and that culture that emerged
from remote the last one from the jesuitics missions was
threatening. The official projects of European immigration and
development of an educative project of national character, finished
moving towards the social and cultural marginality to that man and his
way of being. "mencho", the "tape", ethnically nourished from of the
reduccional past misionero, carriers of a popular culture of
raigambre with guaraní-misioneras reminiscencias, was catalogued like
symbol of the "irrationality", of the "primitivismo", the
"superstition", in short, of a sociocultural situation that was to
surpass and to forget. In spite of it, that type of man and its
culture survived the cultural attack and ideological of the emergent
national states and still today they are with force in regional music,
the popular religiosidad, and a variety of uses and customs that
impregnate all the sociocultural layers of the misionera region. |