Cuba en la estrategia cultural de la España franquista (1945-1958)

Abstract

After World War II, Franquist Spain crossed one of the hardest periods of its history. Alone, in front of a bleeding and a trying-to-recover continent, it decided to get closer to Latin America. Its “preferred daughter”, Cuba, was one of the first countries to get into the Spanish Administration game. The creation of the Cuban-Spanish Cultural Institute, on July 1948, and the permanent support from some intellectual creoles, confirmed the Antilles Greater Island’s loyal backing to the new Imperial designs of “El Caudillo”. Thus, Latin America was strongly reborn within the foreign politics tangential points, along with the cultural image starting to implement.