EL BASILISCO: ANTI-MASONIC CARTOON IN THE NEWSPAPER “EL SIGLO”, 1936-1942

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Editor Revista Principia Iuris

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In the bipartisan political psychology of the mid-20th century, the liberal Basilisk, conceived in the written culture of the right as a chimera bearing seditious values and meanings, was an element of expiation of evils with a defined face: it was Masonic. The object of this study aims to inquire how the satirical image of the newspaper El Siglo was instrumentalized to consolidate and mediate the “anti-Masonic” hysteresis of Colombian liberalism in two key moments: 1. During the Constitutional Reform of 1936 and 2. The Concordat of 1942. It is concluded that the anti-Masonry of the doctrinal press was a counter-propagandistic strategy with a loose effect, consisting of modeling an “original difference”, where the secular Masonism of the 19th century was established as a reference point of the political order of the liberal republic of the twentieth century.





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Magíster en Historia, Investigador del grupo ASOCIACIÓN CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS REGIONALES. REGIÓN, Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia. Docente de la I.E. Vida para Todos de la ciudad de Medellín. Correo: joveninvestigador2016joanigua@gmail.com. El presente artículo es una síntesis de trabajo de investigación: “El BASILISCO: histéresis del antiliberalismo en la caricatura política de El Siglo (1936-1943)”.