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More than a century of the magazine Bohemia

Tuesday, May 10, 2011 00:00 De la Lastra (son of the founder), abandoned in 1960, inmates unjustifiably Embassy of Venezuela, left to take the leading role in the journalistic world of the time and the eminent intellectual Enrique de la Osa took over to continue the legacy rightful historical with his people.

In the first years did not have enough money to empower abruptly, was the sagacity and cunning, professional smell, which caused her to occupy a space in contemporary journalistic stardom.

was the time of imitation, and made publications like the English Enlightenment and American, of Madrid, the Illustrated London News, London, and Ilustration, Paris. It took some time to put a distinctive and defining.

In 1914 the magazine changed its format and consolidated as a business, which led him to have headquarters in Calle Trocadero 89, 91 and 93. In that year also brokered the scoop on the Tricromía in Cuba while expanded its pages to 40.

was in 1926 when their circulation was reduced to only 4 thousand copies and lost against posters, Chic and Social, the new leadership of Bohemia decided to compete by adjusting their work at the time they lived ..

not be said with little reason that the Constitution of 1940, with a strong political thought and radical communist, gave legal body of doctrine and its ideology.

On July 4, 1943, Enrique de la Osa, published the section in Cuba, who revolutionized journalism of the time and put the magazine Bohemia at the pinnacle of reader preferences. This space is shared, too, Carlos Lechuga.

such acceptance was joined by Angel feathers like those of Augier, Juan Bosch, Nicolás Guillén and Antonio de la Osa, Fulvio Fuentes, José de Jesus Zamora, Mario Garcia del Cueto, Marta Rojas, Diego González Martín and other journalists.

A year and a half later, Bohemia raised its circulation of 32 000 to 60 000 copies in February 1953 and 259 821 copies printed, not only for Cuba but also from New York to Buenos Aires.

It also highlights intellectuals like Pablo de la Torriente Brau, Juan Marinello, Raúl Roa, Nicolás Guillén, Samuel Feijoo, Onelio Jorge Cardoso, Lino Novas Calvo and Angel Augier.

We can not fail to mention that here, too, became a journalist who would later be the Commander in Chief of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro.

In 1999, even with the economic constraints of the country, the Revolutionary State, gave substantial funds to safeguard the historical memory of a publication that has a priceless treasure.

still not only in libraries but in barbershops, people read and reread its pages, while awaiting the call of Figaro.