Diary of a Argentinian Female Rebel

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Diary of a Rebel Woman
I can’t believe the recent events that have been happening right here in Buenos Aires. Right here, in my town, the Viceroy has been being completely unjust and has not been favoring any of us, especially a middle class citizen like so. It is just unbelievable how far we have come; I am truly amazed and more than pleased. The viceroy is not out of office, and our independence is finally declared. Who would have ever guessed, a woman like me would be so powerful while joining a revolutionary support group? I know I wouldn’t have, I would never have thought that groups of our rebellions against the government would have been so successful, and it is amazing. To begin, the viceroy is out of office. This is a true feat, he was no sort of leader and he was overdue in office, as his best interest was not for the people, but for himself. Furthermore, we are not longer under the supervision, or rulings of Britain. This is such a relieving ordeal as we are our own country, no one else’s, and by no means will I subdue myself to anyone else’s control. As it is rather odd for a woman of this time to have such strong views of such politics, they are still views none the less and I intend for them, to keep going and improving our government at this rate. Not only am I just rebelling because of the power Britain and the viceroy has had over us as a country, but also because Britain has had its eye on the city of Buenos Aires for quite awhile, and I know they of all people have no intentions of the best for us. They have intentions of the best for Britain, and only Britain, and the people, especially the ones of not the highest rankings, would like nothing more than to be independent and have no ties to Britain. Britain would love to expand them into our colony purely because of the wealth Buenos Aires lends itself. We are leading ourselves into utter success, we are beginning to notice many of Britain’s strengths and weaknesses and our mother country is becoming more and more involved as each moment passes. This leads me to state how we are paying taxes to Spain, we being the colony of Buenos Aires, yet, Spain is not helping is defend ourselves as well as we could be help. This is because; Spain had just lost a battle against Britain, which could have immensely helped us. Also, we are still paying taxes towards Spain, in other words, we are paying Spain in order for them to help us and in a sense save is from Britain’s control. This is quite frustrating to us because we know now that Britain’s army is outstanding and quite a bit to stand up to, which makes this fight very difficult for the people of Buenos Aires. Not only is that difficult for us, but for some of us, who don’t have the constant intake of money, taxes are expensive, and to pay them yet not see them benefitting us as they should is very deceiving. There are many reasons for this Revolution and many things have happened, although the Revolution is not yet near done, we have surely advanced and let Britain know that we are in fact a great force to reckon with. The fact that our viceroy is not out of office is a great help. This is so great because now we are independent of the little bad that were holding us back to what we could be. Also, we know that Britain is after us. This is a known fact and we will conquer them with all the power within each of us, because we are too proud and too prosperous as a country ourselves to let our colony to go into anyone’s hands but ours. Lastly, but certainly not least, we have a few, minor issues within our country in terms of taxes and defense mechanisms, but once those are sorted out success will truly be ours. This is our country, our colony and our land to prosper in and this revolution will in fact declare our assuredness and independency.

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