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Latin America<\/h1>\n

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Text and selection of content: Michael Aronna <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

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Committed to social justice<\/em> in Latin America<\/h2>\n

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Since the nineteen-seventies, the connections between the political, social and cultural repression of the Franco dictatorship in Spain and the emergence of the struggle against authoritarian regimes in Latin America caught the journalistic, political and literary attention of Manuel V\u00e1zquez Montalb\u00e1n as a writer, public intellectual and plurinational Spaniard committed to social justice and leftist policies in Latin America. This political and personal commitment was especially reflected in his position against the dictatorships in Chile and Argentina and was also manifested through decades of solidarity with, and defence of, the Cuban Revolution during different phases and political and economic challenges on the island with the fall of the Soviet bloc and the crisis of the so-called “special period”.<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.22.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#020B11″ link_font=”||||on||||” link_text_color=”#020B11″ animation_style=”fade” global_colors_info=”{}”]Later in the nineties, V\u00e1zquez Montalb\u00e1n became interested in the new social and indigenous movements in Mexico and Central America both for their political innovation and for their post-modern media tactics. As a whole, what stands out in his expressions of identification with Latin American social struggles is his multi-discursive and multifaceted character, which V\u00e1zquez Montalb\u00e1n expressed in his works of fiction, his reports and essays, and his treatises on Latin American music and popular culture. [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” width=”100%” max_width=”100%” custom_margin=”0px||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}” locked=”off”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][dsm_card_carousel centered_slides=”on” slide_to_show=”4″ equal_height=”on” dots=”off” slide_to_show_tablet=”4″ slide_to_show_phone=”1″ slide_to_show_last_edited=”on|phone” module_class=”c” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”0px||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false” animation_style=”fade” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″][dsm_card_carousel_child module_class=”img_zoom_onhover” image=”https:\/\/vazquezmontalban.bnc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/7-Mexic-i-America-llatina_12.jpg” image_background_height=”500px” image_background_position=”top” image_popup=”on” image_popup_src=”https:\/\/vazquezmontalban.bnc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/7-Mexic-i-America-llatina_12.jpg” button_url_new_window=”1″ _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _module_preset=”default” body_text_color=”#F8F9F2″ body_line_height=”1.4em” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” parent_button=”off” parent_header_level=”h4″ title_text=”7 Me\u0300xic i Ame\u0300rica llatina_12″ sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n

La v\u00eda chilena al golpe de estado<\/em>. Barcelona: Los libros de la frontera, 1973<\/p>\n

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Y Dios entr\u00f3 en la Habana<\/em>. Madrid: Ediciones El Pa\u00eds, S.A., 1998<\/p>\n

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Manuel V\u00e1zquez Montalb\u00e1n in the Plaza de la Revoluci\u00f3n in Havana. February 2000. Photograph by Hado Lyra<\/p>\n

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Menchu, Rigoberta. Me llamo Rigoberta Menchu y as\u00ed me naci\u00f3 la conciencia<\/em>. Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1985<\/p>\n

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A meeting between V\u00e1zquez Montalb\u00e1n, Rigoberta Mencgh\u00fa and Frei Betto in Rome, on the cusp of the new millennium. Photograph by Hado Lyra<\/p>\n

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Selection of texts<\/h2>\n

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Peronisme
\n<\/strong>V\u00e1zquez Montalb\u00e1n, Manuel. \u00abPosperonismo\u00bb, Tele\/eXpres<\/em>, 1 de juliol de 1974.<\/p>\n

Borges i Guerra Bruta
\n<\/strong>V\u00e1zquez Montalb\u00e1n, Manuel. \u00abBorges\u00bb, El Pa\u00eds<\/em>, 26 d\u2019abril del 1985.<\/p>\n

Transici\u00f3 i Alfons\u00edn
\n<\/strong>V\u00e1zquez Montalb\u00e1n, Manuel. \u00abAlfons\u00edn\u00bb, El Pa\u00eds<\/em>, 20 d\u2019abril del 1987.<\/p>\n

Quinteto de Buenos Aires<\/em><\/strong> i les seves influ\u00e8ncies culturals<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00ab\u2014<\/span>The tango once again. You deny the tango, you want to get away from <\/span>it<\/span> but you will come back to it inexorably. The country itself is a tango. This city is a <\/span>tango.<\/span>\u00bb<\/span> V\u00e1zquez <\/span>Montalb\u00e1n<\/span>, Manuel<\/span>. <\/span>Quinteto<\/span><\/em> de Buenos Aires<\/em>. <\/span>Barcelona: <\/span>Plantea<\/span>, 1997, p. 75.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00ab\u2014<\/span>There are many possible and at the same real <\/span>Spains<\/span> \u2014<\/span>Carvalho continues<\/span>\u2014<\/span>,<\/span> just as there are many possible and real <\/span>Argentinas<\/span>. Who can speak on behalf of those totalities that are so <\/span>complex?<\/span>\u00bb<\/span> (<\/span>V\u00e1zquez <\/span>Montalb\u00e1n<\/span>, Manuel<\/span>. <\/span>Quinteto<\/span><\/em> de Buenos Aires<\/em>. <\/span>Barcelona: <\/span>Plantea<\/span>, 1997, p. 467.<\/span>)<\/span><\/p>\n

V\u00e1zquez <\/span>Montalb\u00e1n<\/span>, Manuel.<\/span> \u201cDos <\/span>Mujeres<\/span>\u201d. <\/span><\/a>El Pa\u00eds<\/span><\/em>, 11 <\/span>May,<\/span> 1998.<\/span><\/p>\n

V\u00e1zquez <\/span>Montalb\u00e1n<\/span>, Manuel. \u201cAdriana Varela: o tango o <\/span>coca\u00edna<\/span>\u201d. <\/span>El Pa\u00eds<\/span><\/em>, 1 <\/span>August,<\/span> 1998.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>

Xile<\/i><\/div>

\"\"Allende i el cop de Pinochet<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00ab<\/span>The events in Chile caused a worldwide commotion, at least as much as one would expect in the era of information overload, in which the abundance of news stimuli produces a certain insensitivity as a response by the receiver. The world, in general, had a false impression of what had happened there. Allende\u2019s heart-wrenching struggle for survival seemed like [that of] any European bourgeois, something like the parsimoniously <\/span>electoralist<\/span> and reformist Willy Brandt. The images from Chile arrived truncated by the mythology and by the conventional wisdom: Allende the pacifist, an army loyal to the constitution, advanced Christian Democracies…these fake images muted the shrillness of a long, deep, broad tragedy that would explode on 11 <\/span>September.<\/span>\u00bb<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>(<\/span>V\u00e1zquez <\/span>Montalb\u00e1n<\/span>, Manuel. <\/span>La <\/span>v\u00eda<\/span> chilena<\/span> al golpe de <\/span>estado<\/span><\/em>. <\/span>Barcelona: Los <\/span>libros<\/span> de la <\/span>frontera<\/span>, 1973<\/span>. <\/span>p. 177.<\/span>)<\/span><\/p>\n

Democratic transition and the 1988 plebiscite<\/strong><\/p>\n

V\u00e1zquez Montalb\u00e1n, Manuel. \u00abCono Sur\u00bb, El Pa\u00eds<\/em>, 17 de setembre del 1990.<\/p>\n

Trip to Xile <\/strong><\/p>\n

V\u00e1zquez Montalb\u00e1n, Manuel. \u00abManuel Vazquez Montalban, escritor espa\u00f1ol, de visita en Chile<\/a>\u00bb. Qu\u00e9 Pasa, <\/em>n\u00fam.\u00a0 818, 22 de marzo de 1993, p. 30. retr.<\/p>\n

V\u00e1zquez Montalb\u00e1n, Manuel. \u00abEl viaje\u00bb, El Pa\u00eds<\/em>, 19 de mar\u00e7 del 1990.<\/p>\n

V\u00e1zquez Montalb\u00e1n, Manuel. \u00abLa Sant\u00edsima Trinidad del 11 de septiembre<\/a>\u00bb. La Jornada<\/em>, 11 de septiembre de 2003<\/p>\n<\/div>

Cuba<\/i><\/div>

\"\"Solidarity and identification with the Cuban Revolution<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Transcription of <\/span>V\u00e1zquez <\/span>Montalb\u00e1n<\/span>, Manuel. \u00ab<\/span>El <\/span>marxismo<\/span> tropical<\/span><\/a><\/em>\u00bb, <\/span>Tele\/<\/span>eXpres<\/span><\/em>, 4 de <\/span>febrer<\/span> del 1974.<\/span><\/p>\n

Visit of Pope John Paul II<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00ab<\/span>So<\/span> religion is useful for something, I think and remember Aurelio Alonso\u2019s observation: the mood of the masses before the Pope’s visit is not fervent but expectant, they will see if something happens, see if this man manages to get more dollars from Miami. The religious mental structure of the people in Cuba, almost everyone agrees, is transactional, very closed to the prophetic, and perhaps that pragmatic religiosity also marks the attitudes towards the political, where in general something is expected to happen, but only after Castro. Whoever you talk to, <\/span>Borau<\/span> says, everything hinges on Castro’s shuffling off his mortal coil, far from the fears or hopes of the early nineties when foreign action was foreseeable. There is still a minority that awaits the emergence of a revolutionary energy that will redirect its objectives along the path of participation, of critical freedom, of pluralism, as James <\/span>Petras<\/span> proposes in his conversation with Eduardo Giordano about the left after the fall of the [Berlin] <\/span>wall.<\/span>\u00bb<\/span>(<\/span>V\u00e1zquez <\/span>Montalb\u00e1n<\/span>, Manuel.<\/span> Y Dios <\/span>entr\u00f3<\/span><\/em> en la Habana<\/em>. <\/span>Madrid: <\/span>Ediciones<\/span> El Pa\u00eds<\/span><\/em>, S.A.<\/em>, 1998, p. 133<\/span>)<\/span><\/p>\n

Interview with MVM about <\/span>Y Dios <\/span>entr\u00f3<\/span> en la Habana<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n