El pueblo dividido: partidos y facciones en el discurso político en La Habana durante el Trienio Liberal

Abstract

The restoration of the constitutional regime in Havana in 1820 allowed critics, who had previously opposed the colonial pact between government and creole elites, to return to the public sphere. Public debate gradually became polarised between two parties. The first was an opposition party, which chiefly consisted of peninsular members. The other was a pro-establishment party. The radicalization of the peninsular party, openly anticreole and identified with the principles of Spanish exalted liberalism, provoked the appearance of a young liberal creole group. This group carried the banner of insular patriotism and moderate constitutionalism without breaking with the ideological dependence they had towards the dominant group.