In 1914, the Institución Cultural Española de Buenos Aires was formed, led by Cantabrian doctor Avelino Gutiérrez, subsequently inviting speakers such as Rey Pastor, Pi i Sunyer, Blas Cabrera, Rodríguez Lafora o Pío del Río Hortega to lecture at the Cultural Española a Ortega y Gasset podium. In this way, both personal and institutional connections became stronger on both sides of the Atlantic. These connections were principally formed by pioneering institution leaders Altamira, Adolfo G. Posada and Menédez Pidal, who took charge of the strategic design of this successful operation.
In the following years, cultural institutions began to appear in countries like Uruguay, Mexico, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Paraguay, Puerto Rico and Bolivia. “La Cultural” Argentina was the most thriving, under whose support the Instituto de Filología de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, led by América Castro and, from 1927, Amado Alonso.
Telegrama de conferencia de Ortega y Gasset en Buenos Aires, matasello 6 de enero de 1917. Residencia de Estudiantes, Madrid.