Based on Wodak's Historical Discourse Approach (2003), the present research aims to analyze the discourses that were generated in the Lima newspaper Gaceta del Gobierno de Lima Independiente to represent the events related to the Independence of Peru in 1821. Methodologically, we selected the news, articles and proclamations of the newspaper in question found in the facsimile edition of Gaceta del Gobierno de Lima Independiente (volumes I, II and III). The data analyzed ranges from the first edition of the newspaper, July 16, 1821, to those published in September 1821. The results indicate that the newspaper represents and characterizes, according to its adopted position, positively the "patriots", negatively the "enemies", and expresses a ...