Politics, Religion and Indigenism in Los heraldos negros

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to explain the most important and underlying aspects of the col­lection of poems Los Heraldos Negros (The black heralds). The first, the political thought assumed by the poet, as an incipient and embryonic socialism against the arbitrariness of the aristocratic republic that subjugated the working class. The second, the religious, which shows the heterodox character of his religiosity forged from his childhood, his faith and re­ligious beliefs, which are part of his daily life. Finally, his indigenous affiliation as a result of his experience when observing very closely the suffering of the working class, mostly Indians, led him to the vindicatory desire of this ancestral race. In conclusion, this work ex­plains that the backbone of this fundamental work, which appeared at the end of the second decade of the twentieth century, are the three aspects mentioned above.