Perón and his wife Eva are front and center of this assessment of the 1951 Pan-Am Games, largely seen in Argentina as a resounding success for the country on the world stage.
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 attempt to portray Lonardi as the anti-Perón - a humble man, not a demagogue - shows how military-led proscription of Peronism shaped media coverage in late 1955.
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.
Using excerpts from La Nación and other media outlets, Mundo Argentino argues that the arrival of the military government restored the freedom of the press, and that media outlets should vigorously defend their freedom during this age of military…
University problems begin to emerge under the government of the "Revolución Libertadora," somewhat surprising for journalists as Argentina's universities were some of the most resistant institutions to Peronist rule.
Now free of Peronist intervention, the Argentine film industry looks forward to greater freedoms. But as this article points out, cinema is never free of state influence.
Ardizzone selets a few "crack" players from the so-caled "golden age" of Argentine fútbol and measures each players' strengths and weaknesses in order to assess whether they could succeed in the modern game.
A letter to the newspaper editor addresses football—which is uncommon in regular newspaper letters to the editor. Eligio González worries about the “noble y viril deporte” affected by bad players that behave like boxers. Unlike boxing, the football…