La imagen de América Latina en la revista Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos : 1948-1951

Abstract

The paper presents the way the independence of the Latin American countries, their relations with Spain and their future perspectives were represented in the first volumes of Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos, a cultural magazine of propagandistic aims established by the Francoist government in 1948. In the aftermath of the Second World War, the Francoist regime, forced into a relatively extended international isolation by the resolutions of the UN, had to tone down its international propaganda and seek allies for its cause, resulting in a rapprochement towards Latin American countries. Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos was a more sophisticated means of this propaganda, although it also had the important merit of encouraging a real dialogue between Latin American and Spanish intellectuals and artists. The authors of the magazine retained the principal characteristics of the official ideology of Hispanidad, but also argued for a more balanced relationship between Latin America and Spain, and saw Latin America as an emerging power within the international sphere.