ABSTRACT
This chapter explores to reconstitute the institutional history of Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) in Argentina and to examine the factors that enabled its survival in the middle of those critical historical processes in Chile in 1973 and Argentina in 1976, which placed the facultys institutional survival on the edge of extinction. FLACSOs marginal survival during those years basically responded to two decisive factors; political and financial support from foreign governments and the unwavering historic commitment of the flacsianos to the institution. The FLACSO was established by a Latin American initiative in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as a regional inter-governmental agency. Ascribed to the resistance culture and enclosed from the beginning in a political context little conducive to the development of social sciences, the viability of the private research institutes (PRIs) to work in these areas was due, to a great extent, to the financial support obtained from external organization.
