Social revolution, culture & intellectuality in Casa de las America’s magazine (1960-1970)

Abstract

As 60 years have passed since the creation of the Casa de las Américas, our continent is experiencing tensions similar to the institution that it had to face in its founding moments. At that time the Casa magazine emerged with the proposal to contribute to the revolution that was brewing in Latin America and the Caribbean. From its pages came a theory of social revolution that took the region's specifications as its starting point and placed the spotlight on the cultural character of this process and on the role of the intellectuality of the left in it. Those specific elements are the most important reasons for making this presentation with the quality trying to analyze the aforementioned theory for the sake of recovery for the new generations of revolutionaries a thought that is part of our historical memory.