De un pájaro las tres alas: el Buró del Caribe de la Comintern. Cuba y el radicalismo comunista en Puerto Rico, 1931-1936

Abstract

This article provides examples of the interactive dynamics that fuse the international, regional, and local spheres within the history of communist radicalism in Puerto Rico, particularly throughout the 1930‘s. The discussion also underlines the need to include this interaction as part of the cultural experience of the Puerto Rican diaspora in New York. The archival sources of the Communist International (Comintern) in Moscow confirm the direct participation of external institutions in the organization of the local movement and its native cadres in New York. It also, tests to the role of regional intermedia-ries in international communist activity involved in the formation of the future local organizers, an unprecedented contribution to the historiography of the subject. Finally, the article proposes a possible "communist connection" in the iconographic tradition of the Popular Democratic Party.