Abstract
This essay intends to shed a new light on the revolutions in Latin-America and Northern Africa, by examining how people and ideas circulated between those two poles, in particular between Brazil and Algeria from 1954 to 1974. Before the Cuban Revolution, the Algerian War (1954-1962) mobilized the hearts and the minds of politicians and Latin American intellectuals, just as much as during the Spanish Civil War 15 years earlier. In addition, the revolutionary movement had the support of Algerian intellectuals and scholars from other French colonies and from Latin-American countries. The main focus of this study is the role of the National Liberation Front in Brazil, through its official newspaper, El Moudjahid, as well as some Brazilian journals: we consider the debates shared in those texts, thus examining the discussion in intellectual circles from the 1950's to the 1960's and how do they thought the Algeria independency war.
Keywords:
revolutionary movements; nationalism; socialism; intellectuals; political propaganda; National Liberation Front; Algeria