Juan Alberto Salazar Rebolledo He is PhD Researcher at the International Graduate School "Temporalities of the Future" of the Lateinamerika Institut of the Free University of Berlin. He holds a Master's and Bachelor's degree in History from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (unam). He specializes in the cultural and social history of Latin America, with special attention to the contemporary period. He has participated in academic events in Mexico, Cuba, Germany, Portugal, Peru and the United States. He has published articles in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History of the University of Oxford and in the journals Sequence, Cuban Studies, The Latin Americanist, Visual Discourse and Babel. Some others, such as "Resistance and cultural reason: a field of struggle", "History of a failure: the commodification of youth culture in the Rock and Wheels Festival, Avándaro, 1971" and "Where are the boys? Una aproximación a la diversidad sociocultural de los jóvenes mexicanos de los años sesenta", have appeared in collective books published by Penguin Random House and by the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras of the University of Mexico. unam.

Realidades socioculturales

Present and Preterite: Anti-imperialist Critiques of the Mexican Revolution from the Iberoamerican Viewpoint of Cuadernos Americanos amid the Triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959

  • Juan Alberto Salazar Rebolledo

Keywords: anti-imperialism, intellectual commitment, Cuadernos Americanos, Cuban Revolution, Mexican Revolution.

In the forties of the 20th century, the cultural, social and political project of the magazine Cuadernos Americanos took shape. Around the director of the publication, the Mexican economist Jesús Silva Herzog, Ibero-American intellectuals with an affinity for the ideas of anti-imperialism and intellectual commitment gathered. From the first issues, Cuadernos discussed the validity of the Mexican Revolution; its pages pointed out the errors and distortions of the process, as well as the need to retake the most radical measures. These reflections were catalyzed by the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959, since it presented some possible guidelines to revive its Mexican counterpart or, alternatively, to criticize it even more severely from anti-imperialist questions.