It details 465 purported crimes committed by Rosas or the Popular Restoring Society; later editions increased the number by 22,560.

The book was used as a primary source by the early historiography of Juan Manuel de Rosas; modern historians consider its figures to be inflated.

Rosas was appointed governor of the Buenos Aires province by the provincial legislature, and managed the international relations of the country.

[3] Indarte was expelled from the university of Buenos Aires for swindling and forging documents and moved to Montevideo, joining the unitarians.

[4][5] The Atlas of London detailed on March 1, 1845, that the Lafone house paid Indarte a penny for each death attributed to Rosas.

Indarte's libel generated huge controversy in Europe, leading to the Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata.

[9] The book encouraged the women of Buenos Aires to kill Rosas, detailing how to prepare poisons for that purpose.

The book claimed that Juan Manuel de Rosas had incestuous relations with his daughter, and that she once served the ears of a prisoner as a delicacy.