Comienzos de una desilusión: noticias públicas y lealismo. Nueva Granada, 1808

Abstract

This article inquires about the way as in 1808 the news arrived at the Viceroyalty of New Granada on the political events of the Peninsula. This way one looks for to show an important facet of the beginnings of the political alteration of a society that in a moment was moving in one of the most radical revolutions of Hispanic America. And although in this year the vassals faithful of the New Granada followed whereas clause of the king of Spain, in the news that circulated in viceroyalty, or rather in the confusion that they began to demonstrate, they appeared nonexistent feelings until then: the doubt and the distrust towards a form of government characterized by the stability and the certainty.

Keywords

• abdications of Bayonne
• public opinion
• loyalism
• Fernando VII
• Napoleon
• New Granada