CEU CEFAS co-organized the first edition of the Wokebusters School to be held outside Europe, together with the Madrid Office of the Hungarian Center for Fundamental Rights and the FREE Foundation. On this occasion, the event took place in the city of Buenos Aires. Between November 7 and 9, dozens of young Argentinians took part in training and networking sessions focused on the analysis of woke ideology. Throughout the weekend, speakers explored the most effective tools to counter the woke agenda across different social and professional spheres, ranging from business and education to politics and civil society.

Yilian Ayala, Head of International Outreach at the CEU CEFAS Institute of American Studies, explained how wokism has also permeated the current understanding of what Hispanidad was—and still is. “The insistence on maintaining a revisionist view of history, in which roles of victims and perpetrators are imposed on different sides, has only served to divide and distort a shared historical and cultural legacy that has given us our identity, our language, and, in many cases, our shared faith as well.” Along these lines, participants sought to reaffirm their Hispanic identity and opened a debate on how to defend what Hispanidad has meant for the American continent.

Likewise, the President of the FREE Foundation, Pablo Viana, and political analyst at the Hungarian Center for Fundamental Rights and the Disenso Foundation, Alejandro Peña Esclusa, agreed on the need to counter woke and revisionist narratives surrounding Hispanidad. As Viana noted, “they undermine our identity and the legacy of Spain across an entire continent that it evangelized and civilized.” The event also featured the participation of Argentina’s Secretary of Education, Carlos Torrendell; Nausica Cangini, a member of the leadership of the Italian think tank Nazione Futura; and Argentine journalist Karina Mariani.

During the Wokebusters School, participants also examined how Hungary has addressed the woke agenda through a comprehensive legislative strategy. The specific features of this model were discussed by Vajk Farkas, Director of the Madrid Office of the Hungarian Center for Fundamental Rights, and Shea Bradley-Farrell, U.S. Government Advisor on Security and Defense.

In the context of the event, and just hours before its official opening, Bradley-Farrell presented her book Last Warning to the West. At the presentation, Yilian Ayala, representing CEU CEFAS, also reflected on the need to recognize Hispanic America and the countries of the region as part of the West and as strategic partners in the face of China’s growing economic and ideological influence.