Talk:Joaquín del Pino

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As it is detailed in the article, Joaquin del Pino was a viceroy of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata. Heads of state are notable just by being so. MBelgrano (talk) 14:02, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Having come to this page to assess it for speedy deletion, I agree for similar reasons and have declined to implement the speedy deletion tag, removing it and its associated "hangon" tag in the process. Accounting4Taste: talk 14:20, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

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User Nelliebly has posted this questions and suggestions at my talk page. As they are about this article, I think it may be better to explain things here, in case in the future someone has similar concerns or wants to elaborate more.


 * Yes the regiment was the one from Argelia. I simply didn't include an internal link.
 * The second word is a translation mistake I had overlooked. I have removed it.
 * "prohibited land" means that those ships were not allowed to stop and bring their cargo to the land. I'm not a native english speaker, if those are not the correct words to convey that idea, you can fix them with better ones.
 * 4, 5 and 6, I have to check. I will answer later.
 * "The Americas" would be better. I use spanish books and the use of the word "America" has a smaller relation with the US than to the whole continent, specially in the history books about those topics (where most issues being talked about take place at either europe or the americas).

The copyedited version seems fine, except for the reference to Argentina in the intro. The viceroyalty of the Rio de la Plata included parts of modern Argentina, but also of Uruguay, Bolivia and Paraguay. Linking simply the viceroyalty would be better MBelgrano (talk) 13:36, 3 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Thank you! I'll wait until you have the answers for 4, 5, and 6. It sounds like the "prohibited land" is what we would call a blockade, if ships were actually being prevented from landing. I'll adjust the edit accordingly. --NellieBly (talk) 13:50, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

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Here's the proposed edit with the changes above mentioned.

Joaquín del Pino Sánchez de Rojas Romero y Negrete (Baena (Córdoba), 20 January 1729 - Buenos Aires, 11 April 1804) was a Spanish military engineer and politician who held various positions in the South American colonial administration. As Viceroy of the Río de la Plata, he was the head of state of much of southern South America.

Biography
At age 18, del Pino enlisted as a cadet in a regiment located in Oran, Algeria. He studied mathematics and in February of 1752 he was transferred to the Corps of Engineers. He conducted a survey of the area around Ampurdán in order to better map fortifications and roads. In 1753 he was put in charge of the fortifications of the castle of Montjuïc in Barcelona. He remained at Montjuïc until 1760 and was promoted to captain in 1762, and assisted in the repairs of the shore batteries of Castile in the war with Portugal. The following year he married Maria Ignacia Rameri from San Sebastian. In 1769 he returned to cartographic work, working with the French to create military maps of Aldudes, between Navarre and France. Promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1770, he was sent to Montevideo at the request of Juan Jose de Vertiz y Salcedo in 1771 to repair the ramparts of the citadel. He remained in the Americas until his death.

Del Pino held numerous positions in the Americas. He was governor of Montevideo from 1773 to 1790, president of the Audiencia of Chile from 1790 to 1795, and president of the Audiencia of Charcas from 1795 to 1799. He was then entrusted with the Government of Chile, serving from 1799 to 1801. In the latter year, by a certificate issued on 14 July 1800 in Madrid, he was appointed viceroy of the Río de la Plata, assuming the office on 20 May.

He was considered an enlightened ruler who carried out numerous public works, including expansion of the port of Buenos Aires and construction of the Buenos Aires Recova, the latter of which was undertaken by Juan Bautista Sigismund, the designer of the convent church of San Lorenzo. His administration promoted the construction of brick kilns and the building of shipyards in Corrientes and Assumption so that the colony could evade a blockade preventing the exportation of raw hides. Del Pino also put restrictions on the movement of foreigners as a check against the establishment of republican ideas engendered by the French Revolution and closed the first newspaper published in Buenos Aires, The Telegraph Commercial (1801).

In 1801 del Pino appointed Santiago de Liniers as governor of Misiones Province. He also tried to take advantage of the War of the Oranges to regain the Seven Peoples Missions East area, but he failed to provide the necessary supplies. This led to his removal from office on July 6, 1802; he named Antonio Amar as his successor, but the transfer of power did not take place.

Del Pino fell ill in April 1804 and died ten days later at the age of 70; he was succeeded by Rafael de Sobremonte. A few years later his daughter Juana del Pino married Bernardino Rivadavia, the future president of Argentina.

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