“El dedo en la llaga”: Las caricaturas y el humor político en la revista Nueva Sociedad (1972-1998)

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06/2026
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Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Escuela de Historia
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Revista de la Red Intercátedras de Historia de América Latina Contemporánea
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Este artículo cuenta la poco conocida historia de Nueva Sociedad (NUSO), la revista financiada por la Fundación Friedrich Ebert del Partido Socialdemócrata Alemán que se publica en América Latina desde 1972. Y elige narrar esa historia a través de un filón menos conocido: el de las caricaturas y el humor político que han acompañado su derrotero desde mediados de los setenta del siglo XX. Si, como afirma Steimberg, el humor político es un humor social, una forma de comunicación y de construcción del lenguaje, nos interesa ese discurso particular del humor político que se despliega en NUSO. Entonces en estas páginas, en las que reconstruiremos la historia de la caricatura, buscamos responder a las siguientes preguntas: ¿Cómo aparece y se imbrica el humor al proyecto editorial de la revista? ¿Hay un discurso socialdemócrata que se expresa de diversas formas en los textos y los dibujos? ¿Hay tensiones entre los discursos escrito y visual? Es nuestra hipótesis sostenemos que entre 1976 y 1992 las caricaturas fueron muy importantes en la revista. Por un lado, acompañaron a los editoriales en la crítica y denuncia de las dictaduras, la opresión imperialista, la injusticia y la desigualdad. Por el otro, en consonancia con el tipo de léxico que le es propio: el de la ironía, el absurdo y la hipérbole, se rieron de las limitaciones que las soluciones socialdemócratas podían ofrecer en la región.
This article relates the little-known history of Nueva Sociedad (NUSO), the magazine funded by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation of the German Social Democratic Party, which has been published in Latin America since 1972. It chooses to tell that story through a lesser-known angle: that of the cartoons and political humour that have accompanied its journey since the mid-1970s. If, as Steimberg asserts, political humour is a form of social humour, a means of communication and language construction, we are interested in that particular discourse of political humour that unfolds in NUSO. In these pages, in which we will reconstruct the history of the cartoon, we therefore seek to answer the following questions: How does humour emerge and intertwine with the magazine’s editorial project? Is there a social-democratic discourse expressed in various forms in the texts and drawings? Are there tensions between the written and visual discourses? Our hypothesis is that between 1976 and 1992, cartoons played a very significant role in the magazine. On the one hand, they accompanied the editorials in their criticism and denunciation of dictatorships, imperialist oppression, injustice and inequality. On the other hand, in keeping with their lexicon characteristic of the genre (that of irony, absurdity and hyperbole) they criticized the limitations of the solutions that social democracy could offer in the region.
This article relates the little-known history of Nueva Sociedad (NUSO), the magazine funded by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation of the German Social Democratic Party, which has been published in Latin America since 1972. It chooses to tell that story through a lesser-known angle: that of the cartoons and political humour that have accompanied its journey since the mid-1970s. If, as Steimberg asserts, political humour is a form of social humour, a means of communication and language construction, we are interested in that particular discourse of political humour that unfolds in NUSO. In these pages, in which we will reconstruct the history of the cartoon, we therefore seek to answer the following questions: How does humour emerge and intertwine with the magazine’s editorial project? Is there a social-democratic discourse expressed in various forms in the texts and drawings? Are there tensions between the written and visual discourses? Our hypothesis is that between 1976 and 1992, cartoons played a very significant role in the magazine. On the one hand, they accompanied the editorials in their criticism and denunciation of dictatorships, imperialist oppression, injustice and inequality. On the other hand, in keeping with their lexicon characteristic of the genre (that of irony, absurdity and hyperbole) they criticized the limitations of the solutions that social democracy could offer in the region.
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