El matadero (y apologia del matambre)

El Matadero depicts a characteristic scene of the terrible times in Argentina before its institutionalization as a democratic republic.
Esteban Echeverría transports us in place and time, and allows us to witness and relive the opressive climate of the regime against which he fought, and that was finally defeated by Urquiza giving way to the country dreamed by Alberdi, Mitre and Sarmiento, among many others.
Member of Marcos Sastre's literary salon, when Rozas orders it closure Echeverria fou...