La reforma de Córdoba: calidoscopio de ideas y laboratorio de experiencias en América Latina y el Caribe

Abstract

Throughout the twentieth century, reformism - which had its origin in the Cordoba movement in 1918 - was part of an extended political culture in Latin America that was nourished and resignified to the rhythm of elements present in the own configurations of values and representations existing in the different countries: anticlericalism and anti-imperialism-fundamentally in an anti-American key-in Mexico and Cuba; radicalism and socialism in Argentina, Batllismo and ethical anti-imperialism in Uruguay, Indo-Americanism and Marxism in Peru; the anti conservative rebellions in Colombia, and the antidictatorial and anti-authoritarian combat in most of the countries of the continent. Three matrices operated against the reformist waves: the state-authoritarian, the clerical and the dictatorial military itself. From this perspective, the text -based on primary and secondary sources- is articulated around two sections. In the first it is located historically and the veins of thought that nurtured the reformist thought and endowed it with an identity are studied. In the second, its unequal impact is analyzed in various countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. It investigates -in a comparative key- its achievements and limitations, advances and setbacks.