Bohemia marks 100 years.Cuba's Bohemia magazine, which revolutionized Latin America's information panorama in the 20th century, recently celebrated its 100th birthday in Havana.According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. El Nuevo Herald El Nuevo Herald is a McClatchy newspaper published daily in Spanish in Miami, Florida, in the United States. The Herald's sister paper is The Miami Herald, also produced by the McClatchy Company. , the magazine made its debut May 10, 1908, following independence from Spain. Conceived by Miguel Angel Qevedo Perez, Bohemia was a weekly magazine that followed the patterns of Spain's La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana and the Illustrated London News Illustrated London News Historic magazine of news and the arts, published in London. Founded in 1842 as a weekly, it became a monthly in 1971. A pioneer in the use of various graphic arts, it was London's first illustrated periodical, the first periodical to make extensive . In 1926, the financially troubled Bohemia was taken over by the founder's son, Miguel Angel Quevedo de la Lastra, who by the late 1930s had boosted circulation from 4,000 to over 400,000, distributing it not only in Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. but in the United States as well. In 1960, the year after Fidel Castro took power in Cuba, said El Nuevo Herald, "Bohemia's staff split between those who favored the freedom of information and democratic principles that Quevedo de la Lastra defended, and those who favored using journalism as a propaganda instrument at the service of the communist system." Quevedo de la Lastra went into exile, founding Bohemia Libre in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . The magazine was later moved to Caracas, Venezuela, where he committed suicide in 1969. |
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