Espacios en disputa: El Cuerpo de Paz y las universidades sudamericanas durante la Guerra Fría en la década de 1960

The article analyzes the disputes and conflicts over the presence of United States' Peace Corps volunteers at South American universities during the 1960s. It argues that their voluntary work at universities had a strategic meaning because universities became transnational spaces where important ideological battles of the Cold War were fought. Not only Peace Corps volunteers but local leftist groups decided to privilege universities as spaces for the advancement of their own ideological agendas, which caused tension and ended with the expulsion of volunteers from different South American universities during the decade.