more decisive Argentine victory in Argentina-Brazil War

yofie

Banned
I've read recently that if Argentina had made a more decisive victory in the Argentina-Brazil War of the 1820s, under Rivadavia, then Uruguay would have become part of Argentina. The POD for that would probably have been a weakening (or prevention) of the Brazilian blockade of the Rio de la Plata. That would have strengthened the federalist position in the federalist-unitarist wars going on in Argentina at the time, because Montevideo has been a rival port to Buenos Aires, with a better harbour. Rivadavia would have been more able to unite Argentina then, and that would have fostered earlier development and immigration than OTL. Like, for example, massive German and Irish immigration in the mid-1800s.

Would all of this would have made Argentina more developed all the way down to the present than OTL, or would there have been a series of military governments and economic crises down the road anyway (with just the details being different than OTL)?
 

Art

Monthly Donor
What about Rosas?

Argentina had a LOT of long-term problems. . . Like the pampas and interior versus the coast, a relatively weak central government, and no history of being a country, just a Vice-Royalty, which was not the same thing AT ALL.
 

yofie

Banned
I guess that's why for Argentina to succeed, there needs to be no less than a cultural transformation (at least a partial one) - e.g. have the British succeed in their invasions of Buenos Aires over 200 years ago and then settle many parts of the country a la Canada (even if there's a Spanish population left).
 
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