Guerra de los Cuatro Días: Liberal soldiers and the Conservative Party

Abstract

This article offers an explication of the acute polarization that was experienced in the Guerra de los Cuatro Días that claimed about one thousand deaths. The research is supported by the review of the unrevised documental sources: the military trial of those responsible for the uprising. The proposal is that behind the public discourse that justified the bitter confrontation, the nationality of Bonifaz and the defense of the constitution, one of the most powerful reasons was the liberal control of the soldiers, threatened by the infiltration of por-conservative of the Compactacion Obrera Nacional (National workers union).