A case study : El Correo Español as a means of information about the Asturian colony in Mexico (1889-1900)

Abstract

The Porfiriato was a time when Spanish migration increased and, within it, Asturians became the majority group. In this context, El Correo Español served as the official information organ of the Hispanic colony settled in Mexico at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, although in the particular case of those who came from the Principality, it was not only a mere media, also helped build a common vision for their region on both sides of the Atlantic. To this end, the publication had an agenda in which the news it privileged dealt with the railroad, mining and ports, three economic axes that were gaining momentum both in the European region, as well as in Mexico, and also of being part of a modernization process, they also fulfilled an enlightened desire to end the isolation that had characterized Asturias thanks to its peculiar geography.