Godoy, Juan Gualberto; Correas, Francisco de Borja; Calle, José Lisandro; and Salinas, José María, eds. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo.; Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas — El Eco de Los Andes

Mendoza, [Universidad Nacional de Cuyo], 1943. Reprint. Cloth. [30], [210] pp. 4to. A facsimile reproduction of this important (and rare) liberal and anti-clerical weekly published in Mendoza, Sept. 23, 1824-Dec. 25, 1825 (except Sept. 12 to Oct. 8, 1825, inclusive when publication was suspended) and edited by J. G. Godoy, F. de B. Correas, J.L. Calle, and J. M. Salinas. (Nos, 28, 41, 50-51, 53, 56 and 58 are wanting in the reproduction). All issues were 4 pages, double columns, and printed by the Imprenta de la Socieded Lancastriana, the third such establishment in Mendoza. The editors were influenced by the French Encyclopedists Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau, Volney, etc. It was the arch enemy of an existing newspaper published by some Dominicans, El Amigo del Orden, whose editors called those of El Eco de Los Andes "Atheistic libertines!" The Eco's editors retorted that the Amigo's were guilty of fanaticism and superstition. The political articles warmly endorsed the liberal policies of the province's Governor, Juan de Dios Correas, and the liberal and humanitarian government of Bernardino Rivadavia. This was the first and unfortunately the last in the proposed series of reproductions by the Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Light soiling to edges and rear wrapper else a near fine copy.