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  <title>El Mundo — The Posta Lifecycle</title>
  <desc>The journey of a single Posta from observation in the Campo to long-term archive in the Bóveda, showing eleven steps across the operational flow with keepers named at the institutional steps. Companion side-note describes how the Contaduría aggregates Postas into Asientos on a parallel cadence.</desc>

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  <text x="60" y="44" font-size="22" font-weight="600" fill="#0f172a">El Mundo — The Posta Lifecycle</text>
  <text x="60" y="64" font-size="13" font-style="italic" fill="#475569">A single Posta's journey from origin in the Campo through the Movement Layer into the Pueblo, ending in the Bóveda. Diagram 2 — Posta Lifecycle.</text>

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  <!-- Step 1: Baqueano observes -->
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  <!-- Step 6: Correo carries -->
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  <!-- Step 8: Pulpería receives -->
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  <!-- Step 9: Escribanía applies seal -->
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  <text x="816" y="595" font-size="10.5" fill="#334155" font-family="'Inter', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif">by the <tspan font-style="italic" fill="#1e3a8a" font-weight="700">Contaduría</tspan> into <tspan font-style="italic" fill="#1e3a8a" font-weight="700">Asientos</tspan> at the next</text>
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  <text x="80" y="714" font-size="13" font-weight="600" fill="#0f172a" font-family="'Inter', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif">Reading the Lifecycle</text>
  <text x="80" y="734" font-size="11" fill="#334155" font-family="'Inter', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif">A Posta is born of observation in the Campo (steps 1–4), travels the Movement Layer (steps 5–7), and reaches reconciliation in the Pueblo</text>
  <text x="80" y="748" font-size="11" fill="#334155" font-family="'Inter', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif">(steps 8–11). At step 9, the Escribanía's Sello produces a Testimonio that becomes the canonical record entered into the Cabildo. The architectural</text>
  <text x="80" y="762" font-size="11" fill="#334155" font-family="'Inter', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif">commitment — that authoritative truth flows through the notarial layer, never around it — is encoded in the vocabulary's structure itself.</text>

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  <text x="60" y="800" font-size="10" fill="#64748b" font-family="'Inter', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif">El Mundo lexicon, version 2026-05-07 — Roderick Consulting Inc. and RGC Argentina S.A. — Diagram 2 — Posta Lifecycle</text>
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