Logo: a gaucho couple


Question SA-4. Here is the text reference (p. 135/3):

This writer is typical of those Costumbristas who concentrated on the cattle culture, although the quality of his verse and the originality of his work make him stand out. He had lived for many years among the gauchos of interior Argentina, and he had come to respect and love the lifestyle of those free souls of the open pampas. He also was a witness to the abuse of the gauchos (as well as the few remaining Indigenous peoples) by the centralized government in Buenos Aires as the pampas were being exploited for their beef and grains in the international market. This commercialization brought in the railroad, barbed wire, and the commercial rancher, who saw the gaucho all too often as an obstacle to progress. Hernández fought against the Rosas dictatorship, but he also opposed Sarmiento because he believed that Sarmiento's European and US orientation was a threat to the gaucho's freedom.