ABSTRACT
This article examines the repercussions, in Popular Unity’s Chile (1970-1973), of two events that marked the Cuban cultural field: the “Padilla Affair” and the First National Congress of Education and Culture (1971). The study was conducted within the framework of Intellectual History and focused on the debate that took place between the signatories of the document entitled “Declaración chilena” and a group of writers represented by poet Enrique Lihn. The study found that the Cuban episodes had a significant impact on the Chilean intellectual milieu, at a time when writers and artists sought to influence the direction of Popular Unity’s cultural policy. The problem of the revolutionary ways represented at that time by Cuba and Chile was an underlying issue of the cultural debate.
Keywords:
intellectuals; Cuban Revolution; Popular Unity (Chile)