ABSTRACT
During the nineteenth century, Argentina started to get organized as a nation. Significant agro-export and industrial development followed in the twentieth century, generating educational and economic conditions that facilitated socio-economic growth, the generation of a significant middle class, and a desire for more solidarity in society. Between 1976 and 1983, a military dictatorship opened the doors for neo-liberal economies, resulting in the destruction of the local industry, loss of employment opportunities, increase in unemployment and poverty, marginalization, and social exclusion. State terrorism abolished the rights of the people; kidnappings, torture, and assassination of thousands of citizens were carried out on a regular basis. South America has been subject to different types of colonization. Colonization implies transferring customs, habits, explanations, and deities from one culture to another, thereby establishing a hierarchy between the colonizing culture and the colonized culture, one being considered the "superior" and the other the "subordinate".
