Argentina and Inter-American Relations in O Cruzeiro magazine (1946-1966)

Largest magazine in circulation in Brazil between the 1940s and 1950s, O Cruzeiro published a variety of subjects in its 47 years of existence, among them international politics. One theme in particular drew attention for the quantity of publications: the Argentine participation in inter-American relations between the forties and the sixties. With the central objective of analyzing the criticism of the periodical on Argentina in the American international concert between 1946, the beginning of the Perón government, and 1966, the fall of President Arturo Illia, it is considered the hypothesis that the ideas of democracy and the American concert produced by the journalists are wide-ranging, admitting the respect and the breaking of the social contract, in the case of the first, the American Pan-Americanism and the Latin American multilateralism, in the case of the second. Finally, one notices the characterization of "two Argentinas" in the revised pages: that of Juan Domingo Perón (in disagreement with the American concert and representing a danger to Brazil) and that of the governments under the tutelage of the military (in tune with the inter-American relations and in partnership with Brazil).