Manuel Belgrano

¿Representan los countries y barrios privados el fin de toda expectativa pólítica integradora y la disolución de las formas tradicionales de solidaridad? ¿Expresan la victoria de conductas y prácticas que implican el individualismo exacerbado y el triunfo personal como valores predominantes? ¿Constituyen la entronización del "nuevo estilo de vida" de los sectores medios en ascenso como el más deseable o, incluso, el único posible?.

Looks at the life of one of the founders of Argentine Nationalism, Enrique Osés. Osés began as a Catholic and confessional journalist, who continued as a journalist and nationalist thinker and who finally stands as the leader of the most influential political movement outside the political parties of the system.

"Retired general blames the pacifism, isolationism, legalism, moralism, and Eurocentricity of some members of Argentina's political and economic elite for engendering the lack of 'territorial consciousness' that encouraged the acceptance of detrimental border agreements such as those signed with Chile in 1881/1893. Questionable facts and arguments but reflects the uncompromising nationalistic views of some significant military and political groups"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.