El desfinanciamiento de los Juegos Evita en Argentina

Abstract

This article analyzes the budget and disciplinary cuts applied to the Evita National Games during the Javier Milei administration, a policy recognized as Argentina's leading public sports initiative. It is assumed that the Evita Games were not only a sporting initiative, but also a pedagogical, cultural, and federal tool with strong territorial roots. Their defunding implies not only economic adjustment, but also a profound dispute over the meaning of sport in schools, the role of the State, and the rights of children and young people.

The analysis is based on regulatory frameworks such as the National Education Law, the Priority Learning Centers (NAPs), and the specific regulations of the Evita Games, as well as on theoretical contributions that allow for reflection on the redefinition of the State in the field of social and educational policies. To this end, the critical approaches of Pierre Rosanvallon and Lindomar Boneti are used as a reference. From this perspective, it is argued that the elimination of the Evita Games constitutes not only a budget cut, but also an ideological shift that shifts the State from an integrative role to a purely administrative one, affecting the right to sport as a substantive part of the right to education.