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Although the questions and rumors about the parentage of José de San Martín date from long ago, were made public Sesquicentennial year of his death (2000), to transcend an ancient manuscript kept the genealogist Diego Herrera Vegas, where Joaquina de Alvear said that St. Martin was the illegitimate son of Diego de Alvear and a young Indian. Facsimile manuscript
Joaquina
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a presentation to the Second International Congress Sanmartiniano (see) and published an article in the newspaper Clarín (see Debates on the origin of San Martín). Simultaneously, the issue highlighted in a fictionalized biography Don José, José Ignacio García Hamilton, sparking angry reactions.
Herrera Vegas H Ch and went to the Senate Committee on Culture of the Nation with the testimony of the case, raising the possibility of a DNA test to clarify the historical truth. San Martin Institute and the National Academy of History is opposed to review the matter. President De la Rua said in the same direction (see Sesquicentennial week).
Evidence and controversies were disseminated through numerous publications. To find a court case where Joaquina was declared insane, and Herrera Vegas H Ch argue with a history of the Academy San Martin on the veracity of that testimony (see Four points for discussion).
The following year he published The Secret of Yapeyú founding the thesis. At the request of H Ch and at the suggestion of specialists in the field, EI Jorge Alvear, a descendant of Diego de Alvear, a sample of blood deposited in the National Genetic Data Bank in order to compare their DNA with that of San Martín.
In the years following H Ch continued to search for the tomb of the presumed mother of San Martín, Rosa Guaru or Cristaldo, traveled to Yapeyú and made contact with their descendants, the family Cristaldo of Corrientes. A reprint of The Secret Yapeyú (2005) gives account of progress in the investigation. In
2006 Lautaro Group was formed to drive the next steps and required support for university laboratories. On the initiative of Deputy Araceli Méndez de Ferreira and other lawmakers, the Chamber of Deputies declared parliamentary interest and recommended to the Executive Branch to facilitate the investigation of mixed descent of San Martín (see Resolutions of the House of Representatives).
Days later submitted to the Ministry of Culture of the Nation a request for a sample of the remains of San Martín, signed by historians, teachers and family members and Cristaldo Alvear, accompanied by about 800 accessions (see Administrative request). In these proceedings the Instituto San Martin opposed the request. The Secretariat should be issued shortly.
In December 2006 H Ch introduced the topic in Corrientes, accessions and crosses more controversial (see Introduction in the city of Corrientes).
In 2007 he published the manuscript of Joaquina, where H Ch and Herrera Vegas presented and commented the paper.
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Joaquina's manuscript
Published in 2007 (Editorial Catalogues)
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