In 1818, after the Spanish forces in Chile were defeated, San Martin was offered the post of Supreme director of the country. He didn’t accept, because he feared that, beign Argentinian, it could trigger fears of anexation. Thus, Bernardo O’Higgens, a Chilenean, assumed that post. What what if San Martin had accepted? How would he have gotten along with Pueyrredon, the Argentinian “Director” (Chief of the Excecutive)? Could both nations have formed a sort of association? Could that association have remained after the Spanish were defeated?