When there was not King in Spain, Abascal was the King of America

José Fernando Abascal y Sousa (Oviedo, 1743-Madrid, 1821), man of great professional and vital experience, was watching actor and of exception in the international context of the time at which it was called on to him to live. We will do at a first moment, a brief analysis by his expanded previous professional file to his appointment like viceroy of Peru, to enter later in his action of Andean government and to finalize with his definitive return to Spain. Next to the analysis of his figure it will he necessary to clarify the position of the elite throughout the time in which he governed, since he had to face several alternatives depending on the development of the events that occurred throughout their ten years of mandate.José Femando Abascal y Sousa (Oviedo, 1743-Madrid, 1821), hombre de gran experiencia profesional y vital, fue actor y espectador de excepción en el contexto internacional de la época en la que le tocó vivir. Haremos, en un primer momento, un breve análisis por su dilatado expediente profesional previo a su nombramiento como virrey del Perú, para adentramos con posterioridad en su acción de gobierno andina y finalizar con su vuelta definitiva a España. Junto al análisis de su figura habrá que esclarecer cuál es la postura de toda esta elite a lo largo del tiempo en que gobemó, puesto que tuvo que enfrentarse a varias alternativas dependiendo del desarrollo de los acontecimientos que se dieron a lo largo de sus diez años de mandato