Abstract
This article covers the history of the region's journalism and, through it, the culture of a period spanning from 1822, when the first printing press arrived in Durango, until the Mexican Revolution, a time that saw the establishment of constitutional articles dealing with press freedoms that would mark the start of the contemporary period. The author's analysis of these newspapers reveals a regional, noncommercial press with ample leeway for transmitting convictions invariably motivated by passions and personal or group interests, an age of doctrinaire and rhetorical journalism characterized by a florid linguistic style that is, in and of itself, a reflection of the culture of the time.