Photographic Archive of the newspaper "El popular"
This archive is one of the most significant set of photographs with historical and social value of Uruguay. It consists of "El Popular" newspaper’s photographic negatives (official organ of the Communist Party of Uruguay), active during 1957 until 1973, when it was raided and closed by the military dictatorship. The negatives were hidden and found 33 years later.
The archive consists of approximately 50,000 negatives. So far, 37,405 negatives have been numbered; these didn’t suffer high degree of deterioration due to the metal cans in which they were stored. The preservation and dissemination of this archive enables addressing fundamental social issues such as inheritance and cultural ruptures between today's youth and their parents, or the debate on gender inequalities in the past and in the present.
This nomination was inscribed on the Memory of the World International Register and on the Regional Register for Latin America and the Caribbean in 2023.