Looking at the sea from the foams: a look at the cultural exchange between Mexico and Colombia during the 1940S

Abstract

The article seeks to give an account of important shades of the extra-diplomatic links visible between Mexico and Colombia in the continuous crossover of information linked to the field of culture, education, and diplomacy during a wide period of the first half of the 20th century. The idea is to approach the influence that the Mexican government's cultural policies exerted, in a period in which the propaganda and the diffusion of a project that appealed to the culture and the artistic manifestations of the majority, made a presence in the environment of the relation of both countries, while it served in a direct way to purposes of collective cohesion in which artistic expressions, folkloric manifestations, and diverse traditions coming from the Mexican field, found in this directed project, a space for its diffusion and its appropriation, as binding forms and as valid links to give an account of the national identity.