History Literature / Facundo

* ColdBloodedTorture: "La mazorca"(the corncob) was known by his innovative investigation methods. You know, when you inverse the beggining and the end of the digestive tract...

unas y otras provincias"'' [[note]] ''The evil that bothers Argentina is the extention:\\

%%* AcceptableTargets: almost anyone that isn't white nor Occidental European

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: The Gaucho's way. A "Caudillo" is the badassest of all the Badasses,according to the gauchos. Quiroga is the boss because he kicks asses.

(It should be noted Sarmiento himself is a controversial figure, both praised by the Educational Revolution that (at the time) practically elliminated analphabetism in Argentina and granted the right of free, state-run Elementary schooling, and questioned by his [[OnceAcceptableTarget racism]] and [[TheSavageIndian xenophobia]], and for his [[FinalSolution controversial ideas about the "barbarian" population of Argentina]]. Hell, even contemporary works like Literature/MartinFierro are critical of his domestic policies.)

%%* KnifeNut: Sarmiento sees the gauchos this way

''Facundo'' is a work about a popular ''"caudillo"'' (a type of local strongman and landholder) and "prócer" of the Independency: [[BadassBeard Facundo Quiroga]], governor and general of La Rioja province, and his controversial relationship with the Buenos Aires' governor, [[GeneralRipper Juan Manuel de Rosas]]. Sarmiento even points a plot to assassinate Quiroga originated in Buenos Aires, specifically in Rosas' office, that ultimately succeed.

* AcceptableTargets: almost anyone that isn't white nor Occidental European

* BadassBeard: Facundo Quiroga. He even points out that his untamed hair was an extension of her badassery

* BodyHorror: Related to the following.
* TheCity: Buenos Aires (well, in that time will be an exaggeration to call it like that, but you know the writers)

* CoupDeGrace: Barranca Yaco.
* DashingHispanic: Again, Lamadrid fits this trope. And Lavalle, at a certain point.

* {{Gaucho}}: almost every character in this work. But he quotes the "bad" type.
* TheGeneralissimo: Juan Manuel de Rosas.
* GeneralRipper: Rosas.

* GratuitousFrench: Related to the one above.
* KnifeFight: The "dirty" Gaucho's duel. Off course, real men fight with guns. Or at least swords.
* KnifeNut: Sarmiento sees the gauchos this way

* LawfulEvil: Rosas.

* NonFiction: That doesn't mean that he is impartial or omits information
* NonFictionLiterature

* ProfessionalKiller: Santos Pérez, sended by the Reinafé brothers, allegedly by commands of Rosas.
* SecretPolice: again, "La Mazorca".
* TheSavageIndian: wait, there aren't all like that?
* {{Tsundere}}: Sarmiento, on Facundo. He hates him, but he loves him too.
* UrExample of NonFiction

* FearlessFool: General Lamadrid. He tried to stop an [[ZergRush massive invasion]] to the city fortress of Tucumán only with... thirty swordsmen. [[CaptainObvious He lost]].

''Facundo'', by the former Argentine president, writer, military and journalist Creator/DomingoFaustinoSarmiento, is an odd example of the politically messed up times in the early [[UsefulNotes/{{Argentina}} Argentinian history]]. Somehow, it's an UrExample of a NonFiction novel, a journalist investigation and the very proof that ''journalism is never objective'', nor free of a biased ideology.

In the first half of the work, Sarmiento goes all {{Tsundere}} about Facundo Quiroga, praising his bravery and physical skills, but attacking his "barbarian" and "brutal" personality: the "Argentinian" temper, as he dubs it, citing other political figures like [[KnightInShiningArmor General Lavalle]] and ''really'' though guy [[note]]he was stabbed nearly sixty times and shooted at least another three ''in the same battle'', but he hasn't give up... and survived[[/note]][[FearlessFool General Lamadrid]]. The second half is about Rosas, almost exclusively an attack about his [[ColdBloodedTorture methods to bring peace]], and a lament about how the French and English navy couldn't stop him when they had the chance.

Sarmiento himself is considered a "prócer" (patriotic hero, akin to the Fouding Fathers), for his Educational Revolution, as he hired [[{{Eagleland}} North American teachers]] to create his elementary educational politics, and granted the right (and duty) of a free, state-controlled Elementary school across all the country. His role in history is now questioned as he is recognized by his [[OnceAcceptableTarget racism]] and [[TheSavageIndian xenophobia]], and for his [[FinalSolution controversial ideas about the "barbarian" population of Argentina]]. Hell, even early works as the Literature/MartinFierro are critics of his domestic policies.

''Facundo'' is a work about a popular ''"caudillo"'', a type of local strongman and landholder, and another "prócer" of the Independency: [[BadassBeard Facundo Quiroga]], governor and general of La Rioja province, and his controversial relationship with the Buenos Aires' governor, [[GeneralRipper '''Juan Manuel de Rosas''']]. Sarmiento even points a plot to assassinate Quiroga originated in Buenos Aires, specifically in Rosas' office, that ultimately succeed.

The work has clearly two parts: in the first, Sarmiento goes all {{tsundere}} about Facundo Quiroga, praising his bravery and physical skills, but attacking his "barbarian" and "brutal" personality, and relates them as the "Argentinian" temper, citing other heroes and political figures, as the general [[KnightInShiningArmor Lavalle]] and the ''really'' though guy [[note]]he was stabbed nearly sixty times and shooted at least another three ''in the same battle'', but he hasn't give up... and survived[[/note]][[FearlessFool Lamadrid]].

The second half is about Rosas, almost exclusively an attack about his [[ColdBloodedTorture methods to bring peace]], and a lament about how the French and English navy couldn't stop him when they had the chance.

The work is an odd mix: part a biography, part a journalistic investigation (after all, it was published in a political journal in UsefulNotes/{{Chile}} while Sarmiento was exiled there), part a political pamphlet and part a novel, is considered one of the basis of the ArgentineLiterature as well as a historic document, and one of the keys of the Liberal and somehow progressist ideology in Argentina.

Sarmiento himself is considered a "prócer", a kind of patriotic hero, for his Educational Revolution, as he hired [[{{Eagleland}} North American teachers]] to create his elementary educational politics, and granted the right (and duty) of a free, state-controlled Elementary school across all the country. His role in history is now questioned as he is recognized by his [[OnceAcceptableTarget racism]] and [[TheSavageIndian xenophobia]], and for his [[FinalSolution controversial ideas about the "barbarian" population of Argentina]]. Hell, even early works as the Literature/MartinFierro are critics of his domestic policies.

unas y otras provincias"''[[note]] ''The evil that bothers Argentina is the extention:\\

the abandoned without a human's room are, often, the unquestionable border between provinces.''[[/note]]

''Facundo'', from the former Argentine president, writer, military and journalist Creator/DomingoFaustinoSarmiento, is an odd example of the politically messed up times[[note]]When not?[[/note]] in the early [[UsefulNotes/{{Argentina}} Argentinian history]]. Somehow, it's an UrExample of a NonFiction novel, a journalist investigation and the very proof that ''journalism is never objective'', nor free of a biased ideology.

The work is an odd mix: part a biography, part a journalistic investigation (after all, it was published in a political journal in {{Chile}} while Sarmiento was exiled there), part a political pamphlet and part a novel, is considered one of the basis of the ArgentineLiterature as well as a historic document, and one of the keys of the Liberal and somehow progressist ideology in Argentina.

* ConspiracyTheory: He started one about the death of Facundo Quiroga. That theory is still alive.

Sarmiento himself is considered a "prócer", a kind of patriotic hero, for his Educational Revolution, as he hired [[{{Eagleland}} North American teachers]] to create his elementary educational politics, and granted the right (and duty) of a free, state-controlled Elementary school across all the country. His role in history is now questioned as he is recognized by his [[OnceAcceptableTarget racism]] and [[TheSavageIndian xenophobia]], and for his [[FinalSolution controversial ideas about the "barbarian" population of Argentina]]. Hell, even early works as the MartinFierro are critics of his domestic policies.

''Facundo'' is a work about a popular ''"caudillo"'', a type of agrarian {{Gaucho}} chieftain, and another "prócer" of the Independency: [[BadassBeard Facundo Quiroga]], governor and general of La Rioja province, and his controversial relationship with the Buenos Aires' governor, [[GeneralRipper '''Juan Manuel de Rosas''']]. Sarmiento even points a plot to assassinate Quiroga originated in Buenos Aires, specifically in Rosas' office, that ultimately succeed.

unas y otras provincias''[[note]] ''The evil that bothers Argentina is the extention:\\

the abandoned without a human's room are, often, the unquestionable border between provinces."''[[/note]]

->''El mal que aqueja a la Argentina es la extensión:\\

the abandoned without a human's room are, often, the unquestionable border between provinces''[[/note]]

* {{Hitman}}: Santos Pérez, sended by the Reinafé brothers, allegedly by commands of Rosas.