When the revolutionaries in Buenos Aires received the news of the first military victory at the Battle of Suipacha, a small celebration was held.
Moreno would later learn that in the celebration the official Atanasio Duarte, who was drunk, proposed a brindis for "the first king and emperor of America, Don Cornelio Saavedra".
As for Duarte, Moreno wrote that his action, promoting a monarchic system, would deserve the capital punishment, but considering that he was drunk at the time, such penalty was lifted to just being banished from the country.
[1] Historian José María Rosa provides yet another interpretation: he considers that the real crime of Duarte was to claim aloud that the Americas would have their own King, other than Ferdinand VII, which was a clear independentist gesture.
[2] The text that condemns Atanasio Duarte and orders him to be banished states as justification that "An inhabitant of Buenos Aires neither drunk nor asleep should have expressions against the freedom of his country" (Spanish: Un habitante de Buenos Aires ni ebrio ni dormido debe tener expresiones contra la libertad de su país).