At each station on the line, an image of Our Lady blesses the departing traveller; but at Hurlingham, in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, the niche is empty. There, even the Virgin has 'disappeared'. In the first of three talks, The Rev Dr Edward Norman, Dean of Peterhouse, Cambridge, who has been travelling in South America, reflects on the extent to which Argentina can be said to demonstrate the support of the Church for reactionary right-wing nationalism.