| Sumario: | The objective of this article is to analyze the representations of the United States in two Latin American travel books from the nineteenth century, Viajes por Europa, África y América, 1845-1847 by the Argentinian Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (1811-1888) and Impresiones de un viaje a los Estados Unidos de América y al Canadá by the Mexican Justo Sierra O’Reilly (1814-1861). Addressing the context of conflict due to the consolidation of newly-independent nations that frames these books and the journeys they were based on, this article explores the political models of the nation that both intellectuals put forward in their works. It will observe the configuration of their ambivalent, contradictory political utopias, which these works identified with the U.S. nation.
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