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501 jorge cuesta Jorge Cuesta (1903–42), born in Veracruz, was a chemist, poet, and writer. He was a friend and collaborator of Aldous Huxley. Although Cuesta was a scientist by training, he was an artist at heart and joined a group of writers in the first half of the twentieth century. The members of this group, among them Xavier Villaurrutia, José Gorostiza, and Gilberto Owen, published a magazine called Contemporáneos and came to be known by this name. Inthe1930sawaveofnationalismsweptMexicothathadasignificant impact on the artistic and cultural currents of the country . Art, it was believed, should reflect national traits. However, as cosmopolitans, the Contemporáneos defied the ruling consensus regarding art and sought to connect with artistic currents outside Mexico. They published and wrote on French poets at a time when there was a vogue for all things Mexican. Cuesta was also an essay writer who published articles on various subjects in the daily press. His pieces on politics are remarkable because he challenged prevailing ideas in ideological matters just as he did in art. In the 1930s collectivism was at its highest point in Mexico and the world. Liberalism seemed outdated and dying. Against this mood Cuesta defended and extolled the liberal tradition and criticized illiberal policies and ideas. We present three newspaper articles published between 1933 and 1934. ...

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