Las redes intelectuales en la revista colombiana La Nueva Prensa (1961-1966)

Abstract

During the period of the National Front (1958 - 1974), a political agreement between the elites of the Liberal and Conservative Parties, both traditional parties in the country, there was a proliferation of movements, artists and intellectuals who, through critical thinking, contributed a way different from seeing and interpreting the national reality, introducing new and different views, thoughts and expressions of artistic and intellectual work. In this context, the magazine La Nueva Prensa arises, which circulated in Colombia between 1961 and 1966, as an initiative of the journalist Alberto Zalamea (1929 - 2011) to confront and oppose the information presented by the traditional press of the country and the National Front regime. This research analyzes the intellectual networks that were generated around this publication, based on seeing the magazines as material support, intellectual practice and spaces for sociability. Presenting the characteristics of the magazine; its content, organization and political objectives. This as a prelude to the analysis of the participation of intellectuals in this project and the contribution both at the level of cultural assets that the magazine made evident, reviewing their forms of connection and frequency in the formation of intellectual networks.