The fact that the war of independence began with the arrival of Saint Martin and culminated after Ayacucho’s battle without representing a significant change in social, political and economic structures is an argument that emerged in the 6th decade of the 20th century and which since then became crystallised without much difficulty in the collective memory of Peruvian people. The controversial historiographic posture, which is still ongoing in school classrooms and some academic spaces, prompted a rich, unprecedented debate, which ended up renewing contemporary historiography. More than four decades have passed and, precisely, part of that renewal was the publication of the book El Cusco insurrecto. The revolution of 1814, two hundred years later. Project conceived among a group of cultural intellectuals in 2014