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Excélsior es el tercer periódico más antiguo del país, y en la actualidad uno de los más importantes de México. Fue fundado por Rafael Alducin, acom-pañado en su trinchera por más de 30 periodistas de la época; su primer número circuló el 18 de marzo de 1917. Actualmente pertenece al empresa-rio Olegario Vázquez Raña, es dirigido por Ernesto Rivera Aguilar, y forma parte del Grupo Imagen, que integra también radio, televisión y mediosdigitales.

Martín García Mérou (1862-1905) participated profoundly in the intellectual and diplomatic life of his time and on a transnational scale. He served in various positions in the Argentine foreign service and was a poet, journalist, critic, essayist, historian, chronicler, biographer and novelist. Born in Argentina, García Mérou spent most of his life abroad. He lived in Latin American countries, such as Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Paraguay and Brazil, in the United States, and in Spain and Germany. He combined those residences with his intellectual activities and his works on the cultural life and the history of those scenarios, far from being the classic travel stories or impressions of the time, are solidly informed studies on social configurations and cultural dynamics that account for the modernizing processes of the 19th to 20th centuries. This essay focuses on a share of the cultural and diplomatic trajectory from his stays in the United States. Attention is given to his observations on the 1898 war, the Pan-American Conferences, Pan-Americanism and the climate of ideas often characterized as the "first Latin American antiimperialism". At the same time, a critical analysis of his writings is made to understand the representations about topics of his time, specifically: the consolidation of state structures in Latin America, the visions about the United States and its international projection, and his thoughts on the Argentine foreign service, among other aspects. To this end, sources from the Historical Archive of the Argentine Chancellery, the García Mérou Fund of the Zinny Bibliographic Institute, newspaper articles and periodicals and edited works are reviewed.

Los intelectuales fueron clave en la diplomacia latinoamericana. Varios de ellos participaron en la difusión cultural de sus países, como Luis Chico Goerne, académico y ex rector que tuvo una misión en París a finales de 1938. Chico Goerne formuló, aunque sin éxito, un proyecto basado en las dos corrientes de la diplomacia cultural mexicana, una propagandística y otra más cultural. El objetivo de este trabajo es presentar cómo se pensaba la diplomacia cultural mexicana en la época, y cómo Chico Goerne participó en su renovación. Gracias a la investigación realizada en fuentes diplomáticas francesas y mexicanas se pudo ver cómo intentó hacer una propaganda favorable para el gobierno mexicano, así mismo, impulsó la creación de unminstituto mexicano en París para que Francia conociera más sobre aquel país. El interés de este artículo es ver cómo se hizo la institucionalización de las diplomacias culturales o cómo pasaron de una acción individual a una colectiva, y cómo redujo la importancia de la acción de los intelectuales en la diplomacia cultural.

El vino de cocos en la Nueva España, es un libro escrito por Paulina Machuca, doctora en Ciencias Sociales, profesora en El Colegio de Michoacán, miembro del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores y especialista en historiade los intercambios culturales entre México y Filipinas durante los siglos XVI al XIX.

Manoel de Oliveira Lima (1867-1928) and Joaquim Nabuco (1849-1910)  had a lot in common and played relevant roles as diplomats and men of letters. They also had their political differences that they were able to over- come in order to create what it seemed like a solid friendship for two decades until their opposite views on the United States, its role in the continent and the relations with Brazil, set them apart. Their relationship had experienced previous controversies and disagreements before, but it was only when Nabuco experienced what he considered an attack on his legacy by Oliveira Lima that their friendship ended definitely. This article aims to analyze the context of the rupture, its background and how in the end it was a hurt ego more than an irreconcilable ideological battle what prompt them to cut ties. Moreover, it seeks to highlight how this episode helped to forge Oliveira Lima’s image as a difficult character, a rebel diplomat, and, finally, as anti-American.

The article analyzes the Latin American Prize Novel, convened by the Pan American Union in 1940. The aim of the contest was to introduce Latin American writers to the American publish market. With the Second World War as a backdrop, the call had a political intention: to promote the ideal of Pan American solidarity among readers, editors and writers. The contest was an instrument of cultural diplomacy, designed to serve as an articulating axis between the main literary networks of the continent. Unlike other inter-American cooperation projects, the Prize was not an initiative unilaterally sponsored by the United States, but was organized by a multilateral institution and by Latin American officials and institutions.

This article studies the relationship among Alfonso Reyes, Luisa Luisi and the Uruguay-Mexico Committee. It is based on the analysis of Reyes’ diary and the unpublished correspondence he maintained with the Uruguayan writer Luisa Luisi, as well as on encounters, speeches and collaborations published in magazines and newspapers of the time. Reyes ́ official arrival in Uruguay, in May of 1928, was part of and also catalyzed a “wave that diffused the values” of post-revolutionary Mexico. Reconstructing the intellectual relationship between Reyes and Luisi, as well as reflecting on the collaboration and conflict dynamics between the two, lends new insights into biographical criticism of the authors and studies on Mexico ́s cultural diplomacy in South America.

Una versión preliminar del documento que se presenta a continuación seleyó como ponencia el 30 de abril de 2017 en la reunión anual de la Latin American Studies Association (LASA) como parte de la mesa titulada “Re-pensar el panamericanismo de la primera mitad del siglo XX”. La idea cen-tral es que el análisis de la programación y la ejecución de la música que se tocó en actos oficiales de la Unión Panamericana ayudan a concebir el mo-vimiento panamericano como un conjunto de prácticas socioculturales en la esfera pública internacional. El autor comparte el texto como un avance deinvestigación para dar a conocer algunas de las líneas temáticas de su tesisdoctoral en musicología, que defenderá próximamente en la Universidad deCalifornia, Los Ángeles (UCLA).

El estudio realizado es fruto de una investigación sobre la religiosidad judai-zante en la ciudad de Lima en la primera mitad del siglo XVII a partir del análisis de discurso de textos inquisitoriales de la época. En este sentido, setrata de una aproximación al fenómeno religioso judaizante en la Américahispánica, partiendo de sus antecedentes en el judaísmo de la PenínsulaIbérica hasta llegar a la persecución inquisitorial por el delito de judaizar enla Lima virreinal.