the junta sent colonel José de Espinola to Asunción with the task to bringing the province under the junta's authority. Espinola failed in his mission and was quickly chased out of the province.

The royal governor of Asunción, Bernardo de Velasco, organized a local Cabildo of 200 local notables on July 24, which sent a reply to Buenos Aires announcing continued loyalty to the Spanish king Ferdinand VII and rejection of the authority of the