Can I tell you a story from Argentinian history?
In the 1830's, just 14 years after the declaration of independence was signed, the central government fell, and a civil war started between two groups. Unitarios and Federales. Unitarios wanted a centralised government in Buenos Aires and looked up to Europe, considering the more autochthonous culture of the provinces to be "backwards" and needing guiddensse from white and "civilized" Buenos Aires, while the Federales looked to the US and thought that the provinces had to have more autonomy.
Don't get me wrong, both of these people were racist and wanted a white nation, it was a debate of agricultural autochtonal culture with a emphasis on Spanish heritage vs city European culture that looked up to France or the UK
Ok, now we have the context, we have two relevant people; Juan Lavalle and Manuel Dorrego. Both of them had fought in the independence wars and were relevant players in the civil war. Dorrego was Federal and Lavalle was Unitario. Dorrego was governor of Buenos Aires, and he firmed the threaty of peace between Buenos Aires and Brazil which gave independence to Uruguay and soldiers... Were not happy. So with the Unitarios they organized a coup that forced Dorrego to flee. Lavalle took power in a weird election were only the Unitarios took part, and he became the freshly new elected governor of Buenos Aires, and ordered the execution of Dorrego, who ultimately was killed.
Now let's move a few decades forward to the 1860's
The Constitution was signed ten years prior and now we had a Federal constitution and everything was going a bit more smoothly. A man and his wife built an Italian styled building in the center of Buenos Aires, the Miró Palace. The owners, Mariano Miró and his wife Felisa Dorrego
In 1872 Miró died, and in 1878 The terrain in front of the palace was declared a square, la Plaza Lavalle, with a monument in his honour. Felisa was the niece of Dorrego and she was not happy, deciding that the blinds of the windows that faced the square wouldn't be opened again
Felisa died in 1896 and the palace was demolished in the 1930's but that's the story of how someone ordered to build a square in honor of the dude that ordered one of the most famous executions in Argentinian's history, in front of the victim's family home
