Trivia / Algo habrán hecho por la historia argentina

• Falsely Advertised Accuracy: Much like former Trope Namer Dan Brown, despite Pigna's claims that the series is based on research, many of the events depicted in the series are either assumptions or outright fabrications.
  • The depiction of viceroy Sobremonte leaving Buenos Aires following the British invasion is two-fold on this.
    • When Buenos Aires was invaded by the British army, viceroy Sobremonte secured all the wealth of the city and escaped to Cordoba with it. Pergolini said he was a thief. Pigna agrees, and adds that he was a coward. But, although the soldiers did think that the viceroy deserted them (leading to later events), the truth that a historian should mention is that the regulations of the time specifically instructed him to do this in case of a foreign invasion. And he was not stealing them for personal profit: he was making a Tactical Withdrawal to the nearest city where the funds could be protected and the counter-attack organized.
    • There is an acted scene of viceroy Sobremonte escaping from Buenos Aires to Cordoba with the national treasure, after the British invasion. The British cavalry got to him, forced him to stop, and captured the treasure. Although the real Sobremonte escaped with it and it was seized, there was not a action-packed pursuit as seen on the series: they captured him during his brief stop at the City of Lujan.
  • Ferdinand VII, the king of Spain, is in prison. There is an acted scene of the consequence in Buenos Aires: a demonstration outside the private house of viceroy Cisneros demanding an "Open Cabildo"^note a town meeting to discuss what to do, Cisneros refuses, and Saavedra forcing him at gunpoint to do it. Although Saavedra did force Cisneros to call the Open Cabildo, it was in close quarters and just talking (he did use the strength of the military under his command to force his point, but he never actually threatened to kill him). The scene as seen is nowhere near any of the actual events; and in fact, the real Saavedra would have been shot down for treason if he tried such a stunt.
  • The first text points that, by 1806, the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata had existed for 30 years and seemed to be strong, but this was hardly the case. The viceroyalty was created by Spain by uniting several regions that belonged to other administrative divisions before then. Thirty years is too little time to forge a national unity, and the viceroyalty was no exception. Once the Spanish authorities ceased to be in charge, the civil wars and the balkanization process started immediately and lasted almost a century.