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This book explores the university reform led by the left-wing Peronists in Argentina during 1973 and 1974. It focuses on the efforts of Rodolfo Puiggrós, a Marxist and Peronist historian, who aimed to transform the University of Buenos Aires into a popular and national institution serving the people and national liberation. The book delves into the political and institutional projects of the era, examining the internal disputes within Peronism and the influence of leftist intellectuals. It provides insight into the broader socio-political context of Argentina in the 1960s and 1970s, including youth movements and the peronization of middle sectors. The intended audience includes scholars and students of Argentine history, political science, and university reform.

Peronism. --- Buenos Aires (Argentina) --- Peronism

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Perón, Juan Domingo --- Peronism

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Charisma (Personality trait). --- Peronism --- History.

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Dance --- Peronism. --- Political culture --- Political aspects

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In 1946 Juan Perón launched a populist challenge to the United States, recruiting an army of labor activists to serve as worker attachés at every Argentine embassy. By 1955, over five hundred would serve, representing the largest presence of blue-collar workers in the foreign service of any country in history. A meatpacking union leader taught striking workers in Chicago about rising salaries under Perón. A railroad motorist joined the revolution in Bolivia. A baker showed Soviet workers the daily caloric intake of their Argentine counterparts. As Ambassadors of the Working Class shows, the attachés' struggle against US diplomats in Latin America turned the region into a Cold War battlefield for the hearts of the working classes. In this context, Ernesto Semán reveals, for example, how the attachés' brand of transnational populism offered Fidel Castro and Che Guevara their last chance at mass politics before their embrace of revolutionary violence. Fiercely opposed by Washington, the attachés’ project foundered, but not before US policymakers used their opposition to Peronism to rehearse arguments against the New Deal's legacies.

International labor activities --- Labor union members --- Diplomatic and consular service --- Peronism. --- Peronism