The government of the Argentine president Juan Domingo Peron (1946-1955) has developed a cultural policy directed to the popular sectors. For Peronism, the political, social and cultural issues were inseparable. The First Congress of Popular Libraries of the Province of Buenos Aires (1949) was one of the initiatives of this Peronist cultural policy. However, this policy was marked by divergence, including internal divergences, about the centrality of nationalism, the training that the population at large should receive, and the legacy of the Argentine liberal tradition.
Argentine; Peronism; intellectuals; culture; popular sectors