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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.