Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

The formation of the first communist party in Bolivia in the 1930s went against the intentions of the Comintern, represented by the South American Secretary, to establish a party in line with the conditions of the “Third Period,” among them the “bolshevization” of its ideological and organizational structures. The political initiative and heterodox policy proposals of the Bolivian communists, their will to debate among equals without accepting the dictates of the Comintern as a dogma and their own political inexperience, along with the scarcity of material and intellectual resources, soon led to the failure of these efforts to establish a party of their own. This article analyzes the ideas and programs of the protoparties of these years, especially the Confederation of Workers’ Republics of the Pacific (Confederación de las Repúblicas Obreras del Pacífico, CROP), a project of a trinational communist party (Bolivian-Peruvian-Chilean) developed by José Antonio Arze.

This article analyzes the political work of the Swiss militant Edgar Woog, alias Aldred Stirner, as a principal emissary of the Comintern in the Mexican communist movement during the 1920s. Through the support of unpublished documentary sources from the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History, as well as others that are little-known and little-studied, it addresses Stirner’s role in the constitution of communist youth organizations over the course of 1920, as well as in the restructuring of the Communist Party of Mexico and its recognition by the Comintern in 1921. In a more general sense, this article allows us to question several clichés in the historiography of communism regarding the allegedly mechanical and vertical relationship between the Comintern and the communist parties of Latin America

The primary objective of this study is to explain the way in which soccer emerged in Mexico City in the period from 1892 to 1910. Rather than being a uniform, linear, planned process, the emergence of soccer in Mexico City must be analyzed as an interdependent, coproduced and unplanned process in which, at different times, a large number of people with different interests from different cities across the country intervened and carried out a series of actions to establish, develop and promote soccer.

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This article suggests an approach to the complex process of the beatification of the nun María de Jesús Tomellín through a study of the publishing history of her four hagiographies. This will allow them to be analyzed as cultural agents, both in their intentions as well as in the social and political networks that were articulated in each of their printings in New Spain and Europe. Each one of these texts captured adaptations to the beatification policies imposed by the Holy See over the course of an eighty-year period. A comparative study of their printings also allows us to analyze their internal organicity and reveals the adaptations undergone by their publishing formats, as well as the importance of their circulation and their transition from being promotional to devotional books. In this sense, it’s possible to perceive the advances introduced into the design and printing of these works between one century and another. As a result of this “divine enterprise,” the venerable Pueblan nun was given a face and a specific iconography.

The objective of this article is to analyze the representations of the United States in two Latin American travel books from the nineteenth century, Viajes por Europa, África y América, 1845-1847 by the Argentinian Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (1811-1888) and Impresiones de un viaje a los Estados Unidos de América y al Canadá by the Mexican Justo Sierra O’Reilly (1814-1861). Addressing the context of conflict due to the consolidation of newly-independent nations that frames these books and the journeys they were based on, this article explores the political models of the nation that both intellectuals put forward in their works. It will observe the configuration of their ambivalent, contradictory political utopias, which these works identified with the U.S. nation.

The recognition granted by Washington to the Benito Juárez government during the War of Reform and, above all, the signing of the McLane-Ocampo Treaty caused great alarm among the conservative authorities and their followers. Based on documents from the National Archives in Washington, D.C. and the General Archive of the Nation, as well as contemporary newspapers, this article analyzes the measures taken by the Miguel Miramón administration to confront what was perceived as a grave threat and assesses the reaction of the press, corporations and the population of the regions where their armies dominated.