Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: Akaberekerwa muBuenos Aires, pakutanga akadzidza mutemo, asi akasiya zvidzidzo zvake nokuda kwezvematongerwe enyika. Muna 1839, achangotanga kuzviitira zita, akasungwa nokuda kwokupikisa kwake mutungamiriri weArgentina wezvematongerwe enyika, Juan Manuel de Rosas. Akachengetwa mumachira kwemazuva matanhatu. Gore nehafu gare gare, mamiriro ezvinhu ezvematongerwe enyika akamukurudzira, sezvakanga zvaita vamwe vakawanda vakanga vasingabvumirani neArgentina, kuti vatize nyika yacho. Akawana nzira yokuenda kuMontevideo paigwa rechiFrench. Akagamuchirwa nevamwe vainge vatapwa, vaisanganisira Juan Bautista Alberdi, Florencio Varela, Esteban Echeverría, Juan María Gutiérrez, naMiguel Cané. Makore matatu gare gare,
kukombwa kweMontevideo neshamwari yaRosas Manuel Oribe kwakaita kuti Mármol atizezve, nguva ino achienda kuRio de Janeiro. Ikoko akagara kusvikira muna February 1843, panguva yaakakwira chikepe kuenda kuChile. Ngarava yacho yakasangana nemadutu akasimba uye pakupedzisira yakamanikidzwa kudzokera kuRio de Janeiro. Akagara muguta racho mamwe makore maviri asati adzokera kuMontevideo, kwaakapedza makore manomwe akatevera.