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.