[1][3] During the editorship of Gorkin between 1953 and 1959 Cuadernos contained only one article which included an overt ideological imposition in favor of the American policies, and it was about the Guatemalan coup d'état in 1954 and the fall of Jacobo Árbenz’s government.
[2] The magazine featured Hispanic poems, articles on anti-Soviet propaganda and political and cultural news from the European and Latin American countries.
[3] In line with the premises of the Congress for Cultural Freedom the magazine argued that the avant-garde or experimental approach towards art was possible only in a society depending on the free enterprise and liberal individualism.
[7] Cuadernos featured an article by Albert Hourani on Taha Hussein which was published in Hiwar's inaugural issue in 1962.
[5] The magazine was closed by the Congress in 1965 due to its low popularity[1][3] and its lower circulation levels although it targeted Hispanic people in Spain and Latin America.