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MORENO BAZAES, DANIEL. "If we do Like Here it Would be Extinguished Everywhere". Conflicts, Tensions and Authority: The Action of Justice Faced with the Threat of Smallpox in Chile's Southern Border, 1785. Front. hist. [online]. 2014, vol.19, n.2, pp.38-68. ISSN 2027-4688.

On January 22th of 1785, after thirty two days at sea, the Spanish Royal Navy ship San Pedro Alcántara, managed to dock off the coast of the Concepción city, in the south Chileans borders, not without difficulties. Fernando Túpac Amaru and twenty-five political prisoners accused as participants of the rebellion, they were part of the contingent of outcasts aboard the ship. The smallpox outbreak on board presaged complex political relationships and the most horrific and painful experiences. The threat of the disease and the significance of his prisoners, brought to light a series of tensions and cracks within the administration of the colonial power, in a border town. But attempts to political to ensure order and peace, were progressively has developed on the borders of this protocol, less interesting jurisdictional conflict that would be only decided by the highest court of Chile, the Royal Audience of Santiago.

Palavras-chave : Conflicts; custom; justice; plague; Túpac Amaru.

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