Before the student demonstrations I had been working with a group of Latin American intellectuals in Paris, helping bring out a magazine.
Casticismo is a tendency among Spanish and Latin American intellectuals to reject foreign loanwords and stick to traditional Spanish roots.
Yet it struck a responsive chord in generations of Latin American intellectuals precisely because of its insistence on the integrity of their culture.
Ambrose is often renowned amongst Latin American intellectuals for bringing attention to right-wing dictatorships in South America.
Casa de las Américas was established in April 1959 as a place where Castro could harness the propagandistic power of Latin American intellectuals.
Why, he was asked, do Latin American intellectuals differ so violently?
It was a significant forum of discussion for the Latin American intellectuals of the period.
Paz wrote that Vasconcelos was "the teacher" who had educated hundreds of young Latin American intellectuals during his many trips to Central and South America.
Martí is considered one of the great turn-of-the-century Latin American intellectuals.
Like many Latin American intellectuals, he espoused leftist politics at a period of right-wing military rule.