Remember, Argentina was a Spanish viceroyalty, just like Bolivia and Peru, where the Spanish nobility caste lived and did not mix with the local Indians. After the emancipation from the Spanish yoke in 1810, and in view of the fact that Argentina was not going to be prosperous with the large number of Argentinean Indigeno that inhabited its fertile, subtropical and peaceful territory, the president of that country, Nicolas Avellaneda, decided at the end of the 19th century to import Europeans for that purpose. That political caste, then established a tacit systematic negationism of its own indigenous Argentines, marked with fire in the face of the Argentines of today