The antimperialism of Froylán Turcios: study reflection of Ariel Magazine

Abstract

In 2013 I traveled to Managua and Tegucigalpa to do archival work that could substantiate my master’s research on Augusto C. Sandino and Mexico. Beforehand was aware that in order to seriously study the Sandinista movement of the twenties was essential to consult Ariel Magazine directed by the Honduran intellectual Froylán Turcios.

After an interesting journey I could find the Ariel Magazine in Tegucigalpa, however, the conditions in which the collection was made impossible to consult, and I was able to analyze those specimens that were not in danger of being damaged. During the process of systematization of the retrieved information, I could measure the importance that this publication and its editor Turcios had in Latin American anti-imperialist struggle, and building a continental identity during the first decades of the twentieth century.

This article intends to analyze the Ariel Magazine from a series of methodological variables, pointing out the importance of the political dimension that had this and other cultural magazines in Latin America, not only because of the issues and debates they held, but also because of their impact on Latin American reality.

The analysis reveals a problem that must be considered when studying Latin American antiimperialism from this perspective, The physical dispersion of the magazine, the neglect of the existing collection and even more serious, its incompleteness.