![]() ![]() ![]() He opposed immigration, because he believed it undermined the pastoral foundation of the region's wealth. Hernández founded the newspaper El Río de la Plata, which advocated local autonomy, abolition of the conscripted "frontier contingents", and election of justices of the peace, military commanders, and school boards. His career was to be an alternation between stints on the Federal side in the civil wars of Argentina and Uruguay and life as a newspaperman, a short stint as an employee of a commercial firm, and a period as stenographer to the legislature of the Confederation. His father was a majordomo or foreman of a series of cattle ranches. Hernández, whose ancestry was Spanish, was born on a farm near San Martín ( Buenos Aires Province). ![]()
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