Mundo Nuevo (1966–1971, Spanish for "the New World") was an influential Spanish-language periodical, being a monthly revista de cultura (literary magazine) dedicated to new Latin American literature.
Sponsored by the Ford Foundation, the magazine was founded by Emir Rodríguez Monegal in Paris, France, in 1966 and distributed worldwide.
Monegal edited it until 1968 and resigned after a five-part installation in the New York Times that revealed the Congress for Cultural Freedom, a source of funding for the magazine, was a front for the CIA.
Latin American writers, especially during the sixties, always made their sentimental journey to Paris, and I knew that I could always find talent just outside the door.
[8] Mundo Nuevo published articles and interviews, prose, poetry, and essays, but also excerpts of unreleased texts.
Monegal defined himself as "a socialist of the English Labour Party type" who "had nothing to do with what they call socialism in the Soviet Union"[7] and he refused to turn Mundo Nuevo into yet another pro-Communist or anti-Communist journal.
He explained later, "I conceived Mundo Nuevo as an open forum and invited writers of all political persuasions to contribute to it."