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| Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz | |
|---|---|
| Name | Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz |
| Birth date | 1898 |
| Death date | 1959 |
| Birth place | Corrientes, Argentina |
| Occupation | Writer, journalist, essayist |
| Notable works | El hombre que está solo y espera; Bases para la restauración nacional |
Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz was an Argentine writer, journalist, and essayist noted for critiques of foreign influence and infrastructure in Argentina and Latin America. He became prominent in the 1920s and 1930s through contributions to periodicals and collaborations with intellectuals tied to Buenos Aires cultural circles, engaging debates with figures from Hipólito Yrigoyen to Juan Domingo Perón. His work intersected with contemporary discussions involving Argentine Railways, British Empire, United States economic presence, and popular movements such as Unión Cívica Radical and Socialist Party currents.
Scalabrini Ortiz was born in Corrientes Province and raised in environments shaped by regional politics tied to Federalization of Buenos Aires debates and provincial elites. He attended schools in Buenos Aires where he encountered literary currents exemplified by writers from the Generation of '80 and later interacted with poets associated with Florida Group and Boedo Group. His formative reading included works by José Ingenieros, Ezequiel Martínez Estrada, Leopoldo Lugones, and international thinkers such as Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, which informed his later critiques of foreign capital and infrastructural dependency.
Scalabrini Ortiz contributed to prominent periodicals including La Nación, Crítica, El Hogar, and progressive journals linked to FORJA and the Boedo Group. He collaborated with journalists like Roberto Arlt, Evar Méndez, and intellectuals such as Alberdi-era commentators and modernists tied to Victoria Ocampo. His literary output combined reportage, essays, and fiction, intersecting with playwrights and novelists like Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar (later), and contemporaries such as Arturo Jauretche and Leónidas Barletta. He used investigative techniques similar to those of Upton Sinclair and John Reed to document railways, ports, and foreign companies including British South American Company interests, invoking comparisons with studies by Raúl H. Entre Ríos and analyses in Anales de la Universidad de Buenos Aires.
Politically, Scalabrini Ortiz aligned with nationalist and anti-imperialist positions, engaging critiques of British Empire economic penetration and United States interventions in Latin America such as the Banana Wars era policies. He associated with groups and figures across the spectrum including activists from FORJA, militants near Juan Domingo Perón's early circles, and intellectual networks around Arturo Frondizi debates. His rhetoric referenced the legacies of Manuel Belgrano, Juan Bautista Alberdi, Domingo F. Sarmiento, and drew on anti-colonial literature influenced by José Martí and Simón Bolívar traditions. He opposed policies allied with oligarchic sectors represented by families tied to Conservatives and clashed with press barons like those connected to Mitre family interests.
Scalabrini Ortiz's major works include essays and books examining infrastructure, sovereignty, and national identity, notably "El hombre que está solo y espera" and "Bases para la restauración nacional", which debated Argentine Railways, Port of Buenos Aires, and concessions granted to companies such as Great Southern Railway and Buenos Aires and Pacific Railway. He explored themes similar to debates in Dependency theory circles and anticipated critiques later advanced by scholars linked to Latin American structuralism and authors like Raúl Prebisch. His analyses invoked comparisons with studies by José Carlos Mariátegui and intellectual currents in Mexico tied to José Vasconcelos and Diego Rivera's cultural nationalism. He examined historical episodes including the Conquest of the Desert and the economic impacts of treaties such as Roca–Runciman Treaty on Argentine sovereignty.
Scalabrini Ortiz influenced journalists, politicians, and historians such as Arturo Jauretche, Jorge Abelardo Ramos, Juan Perón sympathizers, and later generations including scholars connected to FLACSO and Universidad de Buenos Aires departments. His ideas circulated among labor movements including factions within CGT and unions tied to rail workers and port laborers, inspiring debates in cultural forums run by figures like Victoria Ocampo and Ricardo Rojas. Later intellectuals such as Noam Chomsky commentators on imperialism and Latin American nationalists often referenced themes resonant with Scalabrini Ortiz, alongside historians like Felipe Pigna who popularized aspects of his critique.
Scalabrini Ortiz maintained friendships with journalists and artists in Barracas and La Boca neighborhoods and was associated with cultural venues in San Telmo and salons frequented by Victoria Ocampo and Adolfo Bioy Casares. He died in Buenos Aires in 1959, leaving a corpus that continued to be discussed amid debates involving Peronism, anti-imperialism, and Argentine historiography. His burial and commemorations occasionally involved organizations such as Centro Cultural Recoleta and labor groups that preserved his memory in plaques and reprints of his essays.
Category:Argentine writers Category:Argentine journalists Category:1898 births Category:1959 deaths