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- Collection: Popular Magazines 1940s-1960s
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Protección para ellos, si; para la industria argentina, no
Injustice is a powerful and recurring notion in Argentine culture. Here, leaders of the schools of engineering and commissioners on the national engineers council come under scrutiny for high salaries, while the industry itself continues to lag…
"Segregación definitiva e irrevocable"–dos radicalismos
Radicals split into two factions ahead of the 1958 elections: Pueblo and Intransigentes. Arturo Frondizi and Ricardo Balbín head the two factions (respectively).
Reactores con soberanía; Los subvencionamos para que nos despoje
Identity has always been important to Argentina: a South American nation far away from its European roots and current American global hegemony. These two articles are different in one regard: modernity. The first deals with Argentina's push for…
35% de aumento en el costo de la vida
Another in a series of articles covering the run away inflation under the military government.
Los jugadores están bien elegidos: no sobreentrenarlos
The author warns the national team coach to not overtrain players, just let their natural abilities take precedence.
Dentro de la patria no debe haber vencidos
Amid growing social tensions due to inflation, the magazine sees a moment for national unity, not discord.
Encontraron la solución: aumentan el precio de las entradas
The article sees the rise in ticket prices as indicative of the continued ineptitude of AFA and club officials.
Estadística 1956: El obrero argentino produce más pero come menos
A detailed look at how Argentine laborers work harder and have less money to buy food. This is a typical piece that seeks to find solutions to ongoing inflation.
El peso argentino se sigue devaluando
The article looks at several reasons why the Argentine peso is in free-fall, with no solution in sight.
Contra el soborno: remedios heroicos en la reestructuración del fútbol
Although AFA pushes a new restructuring program for national fútbol, the suggestion here is that these proposals are superficial and fail to address larger problems related to the decline of the quality of play.
Nadie debe ser perseguido por sus ideas
Insight into the political and economic theories of Arturo Frondizi a year before becoming President.
¿Libertad para quién?
Raúl Scalibrini Ortiz is skpetical of the goverment's rhetoric on democracy while eschewing foreign capital and investments. This a brief look at the writings of one of the most influential intellectuals of the Frondizi era.
¿Por qué los jugadores argentinos no rinden en Italia?
Although some Argentine players struggled playing in Italy, others like Sívori and Angelillo ony needed a season or two to adjust and excel–even playing for the Italian national team down the road.
Una receta nueva: juventud y espontaneidad
The legendary Argentine team at the 1957 Copa Sudamericana mixed veteran talent and new "cracks"� a�most of whom would leave for Europe before the World Cup the following year and thus did not represent Argentine (playing overseas in the 1950s…
Fútbol: como antes, más que antes
An article that sways between honoring the achievements of Estudiantes and worrying about their methods and culture of incidents. This is the closest article that is able to praise and blame equally.
Various articles on the bloody crackdown of university students
The series of articles, including a poll conducted on who is to blame, reveal quite a bit about the cause of student protests and the bloody response by military officials. In many ways, this is the beginning of the end for Onganía as President as he…