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This article discusses diplomatic immunity during the Spanish Inquisition in the 18th and 19th centuries. It examines the role of the Santo Oficio, or the Holy Office, which often raided Spanish homes on the suspicion that they contained books prohibited by the government. The author analyzes the diplomatic conflicts caused by such raids on the belongings of foreign diplomats, who were granted special rights and privileges according to various international treaties. He also studies the diplomats' influence in the government's review, revision, and rectification of these Inquisitorial commissions and their actions.

In this paper, transformations of internal links within the indigenous political field are explored, focusing on the last decades of the frontier. This period, in which the state progresses towards its political unification and institutional consolidation, state policies regarding Indian people show a more unified profile and aim to create the conditions necessary for the frontiers advance. The peace treaties policy, extended to almost the whole indigenous map, will be one of the devices through the state will attempt to canalize and to order its relations with different chiefs and groups. Our interest attempts to identify the probable conditionings and influences of this policy on the indigenous population at the conformation, strengthening and weakening of their political alliances. We intend specifically to reconstruct-within this context-the process of the Calfucurá's leadership, to identify the impact of state interventions over the extent of his political summoning capacity during this period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the context of studies concerning the Southern Frontier, this paper attempts to characterize the policy that Ranqueles developed towards the emerging Argentinian State during the second half of the 19th century. Specifically, it attempts to identify and explain the changes and continuities in the political actions from the main Ranqueles chiefs according to the different drawbacks that affected the creation of the Argentinian State. In this sense, the work states that during the 1870's the relationship between indigenous and Christians had turned into an asymmetrical one, due to the fact that the National Government from that period had succeeded in turning into the unique interlocutor with which the Ranqueles could act. To support this statement, the text describes the alliances and counteralliances that appeared in the period 1850-1880 between the Ranqueles and the different Christians sectors, since they demonstrate that as the Argentinian State was imposing over the opposition groups to its formation, the indigenous faced deterioration of their capacity of political action. In this way, it examines first the events from the 50's as they give account of the great role that the indigenous played when the Argentine Confederation and the Province of Buenos Aires were confronting. Later, it analyses the events from the 60's when the Ranqueles joined their forces to the federal groups in opposition to the leadership of Buenos Aires. Finally, it studies the indigenous actions prior to their subjugation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]