"What is Latin America?" Mundo Nuevo journal and the cultural Cold War

This article focuses on an episode of the Latin American intellectual debate raised in the late sixties about "what is" Latin America, introduced in the 36th number of Mundo Nuevo journal. For this, it is proposed to analyze the reflections of its five participants: Afranio Coutinho, Gino Germani, Gilberto Freyre, Norberto Rodriguez Bustamante and Jean Casimir, and to reconstruct the context of production of this controversial journal, within the framework of the Congress for Cultural Freedom and the cultural Cold War. Finally, some general and comparative conclusions are offered.