The elite of Huamanga in the independence of Peru 1810 - 1824

Abstract

The elite of Huamanga made up of successful nobles, creoles and mestizos with a power base in trade, ownership and exploitation of farms, investments in mining, collection of tithes, professional practice and with lifestyles classified as "superior", before the The independence process acted according to the responsibilities they had with the State, their social origin, their economic-political interests and the perspective of the course of events, of course they assumed different positions. Some defended the monarchy on the grounds that their privileges and interests depended on its continuity. Others defended the Constitution of Cádiz of 1812; the liberal measures allowed the access to power to the emerging members, and they were in favor of independence as a strategy to protect their assets and gain greater spaces of power. There was no shortage of those with an ambivalent position who supported the royalists and the independentists at the same time.