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in an effort to attenuate the population centralization in Buenos Aires that the country has always experienced. The federalization law was approved in May but proved so unpopular that the transfer never took place, and the project was canceled in 1989.
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sanctioned a law that prohibited the provinces to mobilize militarily without federal permission, but Buenos Aires ignored the law. When the federal government ordered the confiscation of a boat loaded with arms for the militias, Colonel
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constitution to centralize in Buenos Aires the direct administrative power over the entire national territory pushed the situation, and the political measures taken by the provinces in the successive years, such as the
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strengthened the separation of his power of administration and police, of the federal one. Avellaneda attempted reconciliation by pardoning the revolutionaries, but the measure had little effect.
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