Cuadernos

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Cuadernos
CategoriesPolitical magazine
Cultural magazine
FrequencyQuarterly (1954–1961)
Monthly (1961–1965)
FounderCongress for Cultural Freedom
Year founded1953
First issueJune 1954
Final issue
Number		September 1965
100
CountryFrance
Based inParis
LanguageSpanish

Cuadernos (Spanish: Notebooks) was a Spanish-language magazine that was published in Paris, France, in the period 1953–1965. Its full title was Cuadernos del Congreso por la Libertad de la Cultura.[1] It was one of the publications of the Congress for Cultural Freedom.

History and profile[]

Cuadernos was launched by the Congress for Cultural Freedom in 1953 which targeted Spanish people and Latin Americans.[2][3] The first issue appeared in June 1954.[4] The editor of the magazine was a Spaniard politician, Julián Gorkin.[4] During his editorship another Spaniard politician Ignacio Iglesias also edited the magazine which was published on a quarterly basis.[4] Gorkin was replaced by a Spaniard exile in Paris, Luis Araquistáin, as editor of the magazine in late 1950s.[4] However, due to the death of Araquistáin a Colombian diplomat Germán Arciniegas was named as the editor of the magazine.[1][2]

The content of Cuadernos included Hispanic poems, articles on anti-Soviet propaganda and political and cultural news from the European and Latin American countries.[2] In 1961 the frequency of the magazine was switched to monthly.[4] The magazine folded by the Congress in 1965 due to its low popularity[1][2] and its lower levels of circulation although it targeted Hispanic people in Spain and Latin America.[5] The magazine never enjoyed high levels of circulation like Encounter or Der Monat, other magazines of the Congress.[5] The last issue, the 100th issue, of Cuadernos was published in September 1965.[4] Mundo Nuevo, another Spanish language magazine, succeeded Cuadernos.[5]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c Olga Glondys (June 2018). "Dismissals of the Congress for Cultural Freedom's representatives in Latin America as part of the strategy of "Opening to the Left" (1961-1964)". Culture & History Digital Journal. 7 (1): 010. doi:10.3989/chdj.2018.010. S2CID 158591858.
  2. ^ a b c d David M. Carletta (November 2016). "Review of Neither Peace nor Freedom: The Cultural Cold War in Latin America by Patrick Iber". The History Teacher. 50 (1): 140. JSTOR 44504462.
  3. ^ Olga Glondys (2021). "Cold war controversies in the pro-amnesty campaigns of the Spanish political prisoners (1961) and the erosion of Spanish exiles' leadership in the anti-Francoist policies". Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies. 27 (1): 65. doi:10.1080/14701847.2021.1898154. S2CID 233205904.
  4. ^ a b c d e f Russell H. Bartley (Spring 2001). "The Piper Played to Us All: Orchestrating the Cultural Cold War in the USA, Europe, and Latin America". International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society. 14 (3): 587–588. doi:10.1023/A:1007881312208. JSTOR 20020095.
  5. ^ a b c Greg Barnhisel (8 January 2017). "Finks, Fronts, and Puppets: Revisiting the Cultural Cold War". Los Angeles Review of Books. Archived from the original on 13 April 2021. Retrieved 24 October 2021.

External links[]

  • Media related to Cuadernos at Wikimedia Commons
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