abstract
- © 2020 Universidad Nacional de Colombia. All rights reserved.In 1937, the Mexican academic Rafael Ramos Pedrueza published a book about the Navarrese guerrilla and insurgent Javier Mina, who gave his life in his struggle to achieve independence from New Spain in that November 1817. As a supporter of historical materialism and akin to his Marxist convictions, Ramos Pedrueza presented Mina as an internationalist hero and liberator of the oppressed classes, among other purposes, to nourish the Mexican revolutionary discourse and to educate consciences within the framework of the new socialist education of the Cardenist regime. Given its importance, this article will deal with this particular conception of Ramos Pedrueza on the figure and work of Javier Mina.