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HEGRON BASTIEN, Hubert Paul-Marie-Josèphe. Luis Chico Goerne, an academic in Paris at the service of Mexican cultural diplomacy. Rev. hist. Am. [online]. 2019, n.156, pp.255-277.  Epub 28-Fev-2022. ISSN 2663-371X.  https://doi.org/10.35424/rha.156.2019.241.

Intellectuals were fundamental in Latin-American diplomacy. Some of them took part in the diffusion of their own culture. Luis Chico Goerne was one of these, an academic and former rector in charge of a mission in Paris in the end of 1938. He designed, unsuccessfully, a plan based on the two currents of Mexican cultural diplomacy, one of propaganda and one more cultural. The goal is to show how was thought the Mexican cultural diplomacy and how Chico Goerne participated in its renovation. Thanks to the investigation based on French and Mexican diplomatic sources, it was possible to present how Chico Goerne tried to make an advantageous propaganda to the Mexican government, and to create a Mexican institute in Paris, in order to have Mexico better known in France. The interest of this article is to understand how was made the institutionalization of the cultural diplomacy, or how it changed from an individual action to a collective and institutional policy and how it reduced the importance of intellectual action in cultural diplomacy.

Palavras-chave : Chico Goerne; cultural diplomacy; institutes; propaganda.