History
A Scout patrol of Anglo-Argentine students greeted Baden-Powell on his way to visit Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina and Chile in 1908. In the late 1930s, a Catholic Scout Union (USCA) was created under the sponsorship of the Roman Catholic Church and operated separately until December 2, 1996, when INSA and USCA merged to form the Scouts of Argentina.
In the mid 1990s there were two major Scout associations in Argentina:
- Argentina Scout Association (INSA, also known as ASA), recognized by the World Organization of Scout Movement
- Argentine Catholic Scouts Union (USCA), an entity sponsored by the Catholic Church
In 1980, talks to agree on a federation of two succumbed to differences between the leaders of associations and restarted only in 1992 further talks under the auspices of the Interamerican Scout Region (World Organization of the Scout Movement).
In 1995 as a result of these discussions create a Constitution Committee which aims to draft a Status of merger of both associations agree on a common educational project and establish convergence in education and land.
As one of the partnerships was an organization of the Catholic Church, the Argentine Episcopal Conference in early 1996 is the adoption of Terms of Reference for the unification, although each Bishop reserves its right to form a private association in their jurisdiction if they consider that is weaken the identity of Catholic Scouts in its two key aspects, "Faithfulness to the Scout Movement and fidelity to Catholic doctrine. As part of these agreements, the USCA reserve a private association of the Catholic Church through the establishment of a "Scout Catholic Pastoral Committee" (COPASCA). The COPASCA assumes a supra-in the new partnership that arises from the unit.
On December 1 of 1996, merged the Argentine Catholic Scouts Union (USCA) and the Association of Scouts of Argentina (ASA), a joint National Assembly to be held in the town of Ezeiza in the grounds of the Textile Workers Union (SETI) with the Matanza River.
As a result of the merger comes Scouts of Argentina, the name of the new unified association.
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