The article alludes to a restrictive educational environment under Peron and that the provisional government will lead to a more open and accessible university system
President Arturo Frondizi receives his first visitors after his ouster by military forces in mid-1962. The deposed head of state declares that he does not plan on leaving the country as requested by military officials. The ouster of Frondizi was yet…
Frondizi received a 60-day "no visitors" imprisonment by the military government, while Guido establishes his temporary government. However, as the article lays out, colleagues loyal to the deposed president were under suspicion of carrying out…
This article is a clear reposte to an earlier piece in Mundo Argentino (September 7) that showed a massive pro-Perón crowd in the same spot just a few weeks earlier.
If Mundo Argentino served as a mouthpiece for the Peronist state for many years, it is clear that with military rule it likewise served as a mouthpiece for the new anti-Peronist order.
The state-directed university system under Peron has given way to an equally elitist view of education where international intellectuals dictate curriculum, rather than listen to the needs of the people and offer courses more in line with national…
"Don't rush to judgement" seems to be a recurring opinion in this piece, which labels the two-month period after Peron's fall as a revolutionary age (the same term Peronists applied to the preceeding 10 years)
At a crossroads, the author boils down the debate over how university systems should be structured into 2 camps: liberals and nationalists/populists; the former favor an open education and the latter favor a continued curriculum dictated by a small…
The author (who was expelled under the military because of ties to Peronism and outspoken nature about human rights) cites two main (and historic) problems with the university system: the call for autonomy and the fradulent restructuring that…
Sensing that the military will repeat the coup of 1962, President Illia provides a speech aimed at restoring confidence in his government. Primera Plana concludes that the speech was notable for what was ommitted, punctuated by a cartoon.