Students, politics and the press as a space of recocnition of the movements in the 1940s at University of Cartagena

Abstract

The relation between student movements and politics has been a constant in Colombia Likewise, the Access to the prees became un some cases a means of popularization and privilege that gave them representation and leadership in the fight for the ideals. The 40s movement at Universidad de Cartagena is not exception, Although this means  allowed their recognitiong and the academic demands did not slack students were mainly interested in getting involved in the bipartite political fight of these years, especially on the side of the hegemonic liberalism of the period even organizing themselves in movements or committees on behalf of socialism and communism, left positions that started to permeate the Colombian universitu institutions before the conservative opposition that became stronger.