Marcha (weekly newspaper)

Marcha was a weekly newspaper for politics and culture from Uruguay , which was ofgreat importance throughout Latin America from the 1950s until it was closed by the military in 1974 .

The first edition of Marcha was published in Montevideo on June 23, 1939 . Carlos Quijano (1900–1984) was the founder, publisher and editor-in-chief until the end . At that time he was chairman of the left-wing Agrupación Nacionalista Demócrata Social , a nationalist-social-democratic group within the Partido Nacional . The newspaper's motto was " Navigare necesse vivere non necesse " ("Seafaring is necessary, life is not", or more modern "Travel is necessary, life is not"). The political orientation was undogmatic left, with particular emphasis on the importance of economic and political independence from the United States.

Important intellectuals from Uruguay, such as Juan Carlos Onetti , Mario Benedetti , Eduardo Galeano , Arturo Ardao , Homero Alsina Thevenet , Hugo Alfaro , Carlos Martínez Moreno , Manuel Flores Mora , Carlos Real de Azúa , Ángel Rama , Alfredo Zitarrosa , María Esther Gilio and Guillermo Chifflet were among the editors and journalists; Contributions also came from other Latin American countries. The circulation often ran into the tens of thousands, especially in the 1960s and 1970s.

Because of its direction and fearlessness, the magazine was a thorn in the side of the military who had been in government since 1973. When a dissident story by Nelson Marra ("El guardaespaldas") won first prize at the Marcha literary competition in 1974 , they arrested all members of the jury. After their release, Quijano and Hugo Alfaro managed to get some numbers out, but at the end of the year Marcha was finally banned by the military. Quijano emigrated to Mexico.

Further edition projects were the Cuadernos de Marcha , which appeared monthly from 1967 onwards , each dedicated to a particular topic, and the Biblioteca de Marcha ( 1969 to 1974 ), in which mainly anthologies appeared.

In 1983, surviving Marcha employees and younger journalists founded Brecha magazine . This follow-up was supposed to be called Marcha , but Carlos Quijano's family prevented that.

The 60th anniversary of the first Marcha issue was celebrated in 1999 with a 7 Peso postage stamp.

literature

• Luisa Peirano Basso: Javier Vergara (ed.): Marcha de Montevideo y la formación de la conciencia latinoamericana a través de sus cuadernos ( Spanish ) 2001.

Web links

• Complete Collection of Marcha ( Spanish ) Publicaciones periódicas del Uruguay. Retrieved November 24, 2012.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mario Vargas Llosa : The World of Juan Carlos Onetti. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2009, p. 48.