Sumario: | This article aims to reconstruct a people’s history of Cuban nationalism in Mexico, centered on the printing presses of the Mexico City publisher Vanegas Arroyo. A corrido about the Santiago general Antonio Maceo, commissioned in Veracruz, and a habanera that underwent transatlantic metamorphoses, both illustrated by José Guadalupe Posada, give us a glimpse of the everyday struggle over the visions of the contending armies, their composition and the legitimacy of their causes. These political narratives open up a window on how the publisher functioned, the circulation of its texts and the dialogue of corridos and engravings with the national and international press.
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