Objective:

The New Left was an international cultural-political phenomenon configured since the mid-1950s and developed in the following two decades. In Colombia, studies on this phenomenon have prioritized its political organizational side, making less evident the intellectual dynamics and reception processes that, although political, responded to their own logics.

Methodology:

Through a bibliographical review that crosses studies of the left and studies of the intellectual life of the period, we establish an analytical framework to observe the magazines of intellectual and political debate as a materialization of the New Left. This allows us to expand it to the intellectual sphere and embed it in the Latin American context.

Originality:

Some of these magazines have been mentioned in previous studies, but they have not been analyzed nor reconstructed in the field where they are embedded. This text contributes to filling this gap. Although concentrated in the 1960s, the descriptions cover the following decade.

Conclusions:

It concludes that modernizing magazines such as Mito (1955-1962) operated as a condition of possibility for the emergence of magazines of the New Left, the pioneering action of Tierra Firme (1958-1959) and the founding role of the magazine Estrategia (1962-1964). Furthermore, it proposes to build a map with these and other magazines, so they can be analyzed in an articulated way.