By Sophia Lincoln

Though she typically spends summers leading a Cal Poly abroad program in Spain, this year world languages and cultures professor Silvia Marijuan decided to give her Spanish language students an entirely different experience with students from her own country of origin: Argentina.

“I think it is very important for students to have a broad international perspective that includes not only a European perspective, but also the perspective of a student from Latin America,” Marijuan said.

According to Marijuan, these two perspectives are quite different especially considering the dictatorships and economic crises that Argentina faced just a few decades ago.

“Argentina is a very interesting country because people there have gone through a lot,” Marijuan said.

Originally from Buenos Aires, Marijuan used to teach at the