Abstract

GUTIERREZ ARDILA, Daniel. The Convention of Discords: Ocaña, 1828. rev.estud.soc. [online]. 2015, n.54, pp.150-168. ISSN 0123-885X.  https://doi.org/10.7440/res54.2015.11.

Constituent congresses in pro-independence Spanish America were generally meetings that declared or ratified the existence of new States. In this sense, it can be said that they were basically characterized by the convergence of opinions and by the quest for unanimity. For that reasonl, when the agreements reached began to disintegrate, they naturally resorted to the procedure of convening a new constituent body to repair the fissures and ward off the threats of dissolution. But how were they to resolve irreconcilable differences? And what happened if, instead of settling the most heated disputes, all hope of compromise finally vanished and the corps of deputies failed in their essential mission? By analyzing the Ocaña Convention of 1928, the failure of which had a great deal to do with the final dissolution of the Republic of Colombia (1819-1831), this text poses such questions and seeks to analyze the moment in which the constituent assemblies became milestones for political boundaries and prepared the way for civil war. It does so by making use of the documentation available in the Archivo General de la Nación (AGN) and systematically confronting it with French and Chilean diplomatic sources. The article also seeks to challenge the widely disseminated idea of massive and spontaneous support of the Colombian peoples for the dictatorship of Bolivar.

Keywords : Ocaña Convention; constituent assemblies; war of independence; Republic of Colombia; Simon Bolivar.

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