| Resumo: | This paper seeks to describe the radical discourse contained in the articles of El Cometa, a Zacatecan journal published during 1832. Based on an analysis of the rhetoric displayed by some of its articles and news reports, I try to identify the intellectual and ideological influences of the publishers, as well as the scope that such a discourse might have had among the general population. I am particularly interested in placing the journal and its publishing group within the framework of the political struggles that characterized the Republic during that period. My hypothesis is that this radical rhetoric, a product of the current situation in Mexico and of the different intellectual influences of the publishers, had a twofold orientation: in the first place, it was addressed to political groups, particularly the one that agreed with the radical sector of the Zacatecan political élite, and in the second place, to another more popular sector. In this last case, I propose that this rhetoric could have influenced the creation of what Scott describes as a “social space for a popular dissident culture” that facilitated social outbreaks at the time.
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