after a lengthy introduction, "facundo"'s fifteen chapters divide broadly into three sections: chapters one to four outline argentine geography, anthropology, and history; chapters five to fourteen recount the life of juan facundo quiroga; and the concluding chapter expounds sarmiento's vision of a future for argentina under a unitarist government. in sarmiento's words, the reason why he chose to provide argentine context and use facundo quiroga to condemn rosas's dictatorship is that "in facundo quiroga i do not only see simply a caudillo, but rather a manifestation of argentine life as it has been made by colonization and the peculiarities of the land".