El Partido Socialista y Prensa Latinoamericana: Gestión económica y conflicto político en una editorial chilena (1954-1973)

Abstract

This article examines the material and organic bases that made possible the emergence and development of Prensa Latinoamericana (PLA), a publishing house linked to the Socialist Party of Chile. It argues, first, that the Socialist party’s internal struggles and tendency to factionalize conditioned the trajectory of this publishing house and second, that the success of this publishing initiative was the result to a large degree of a set of administrative decisions. Our research is mostly based on documentation produced by the anonymous society through which PLA operated, reports, party resolutions, newspapers, and memoirs from socialist leaders.