Sometimes, the journalists themselves wanted to assassinate their enemies in the government. Bernardino Rivadavia's media henchmanJuan Cruz VarelaHe suggested to General Lavalle that he have Manuel Dorrego shot. José Rivera Indarte He urged tyrannicide in a series of articles under the resounding title "It is a holy act to kill Rosas." He himself wanted to assassinate Rosas with a box containing small cannons that went down in history as the 'infernal machine'.