This chapter delves into further demonstrations of dissent arising from the growing politicization of government affairs. It was an escalating process of public contention instigated by the increase in royal taxes, the magistrates’ attempt to suppress the 1781 city council’s elections, the audiencia’s handling of the mass indigenous uprising led by Tomas Katari in the Charcas region in the late 1780 and the subsequent rebel siege of Chuquisaca in February 1781, and the imposition of tobacco monopoly that raised retail prices. The first section of the chapter deals with the circulation of anonymous pasquinades. In societies where publicity was deemed a privilege granted by the monarch and freedom of expression was subject to strict censorship, libels emerged as a major political tool. The chapter analyzes a large number of pasquinades that criticized royal magistrates and government policies. Other topics include the successful of resistance of the city council officials to the Crown authorities’ attempt to invalidate the 1781 municipal elections, the role of the urban militias in defeating the rebel siege of the city, and popular opposition the royal tobacco monopoly established in early 1781.