We spent our day today walking around Buenos Aires and learning more about the history and the culture surrounding the city. Every time we talked about an old historical neighborhood or certain ports and stations, the idea of Peronism would come up almost every time, referring to the political party started by Juan Peron in the 1940s. We learned that Peron was a general during the military occupation in the early 1900s as well as the Ministry of Labor secretary, which made him very well-liked by the working class people of Buenos Aires since he oriented his labor policies around them. Peron, while he was very focused on workers rights, also wanted to keep himself in power as much as possible. He was democratically elected in the early 1940s as president of Argentina and began a series of what we would consider to be more socialist projects throughout the city and the country. While public education already existed in Argentina, he expanded free access to education. He also began building public hospitals owned by the government. However, the biggest change Peron made was the introduction of workers unions, an idea that is still very present in current Argentine politics. All of the changes, meant to expand and improve the quality of living for the working class, left a mark on Argentine history, especially in regards to the hospital systems and the unions. Peron’s expansion of the public, government-owned sector of healthcare and labor persists to this day in Argentina, seen in the various public hospitals we have visited as well as in their insurance system. A good example of this is the union-owned insurance vs the private insurance people can buy into. Overall, Peron’s legacy on the Argentine working and middle class has left a permanent mark on Argentina and while he is considered very polarizing in Argentine politics, his policies continue to be the foundation of many parts of Argentine life, including healthcare.