Roberto Latorre

Roberto Latorre Medina, was an animator of culture, in the early twentieth century in Cusco, Peru, (born in Cusco on June 2, 1897 and died on April 1, 1949), his parents were : José Manuel Latorre and María Josefa Medina. He married Mrs. Tula Luna, with whom she had two daughters, Miryam and Irma. He also had a son with Mrs. Haydeé Sivirichi Pezúa, Jorge Roberto Latorre Sivirichi, who was born on February 20, 1946.

He did his secondary studies at the National College of Sciences, then the superiors at the University of San Antonio Abad, both in Cusco.

The "duck" Latorre, as his friends affectionately called him, was a front-line intellectual, and as his contemporaries describe him, a man of special temperament and breadth of spirit. Friend of all kinds of people, a deep knowledge of the human soul, his exquisite sensitivity led him to conceive Socialism as the universal panacea to solve all the problems of man. Activities

Kosko was a literary and controversial magazine. ... Appeared in Cusco on May 19, 1924, as a weekly publication and its first period lasted until November 1925. ... this magazine was founded by an original, bohemian and contestatory character, journalist and printer Roberto Latorre Medina. The formal directors of the magazine were Luis Severo Yabar (literary director) and then Luis Felipe Paredes Obando, lawyer and intellectual linked to the generation of 1909. On the other hand Kosko self-described as a Marxist magazine, although he did not exclude from his pages articles of different ideological orientation but of critical content to the political power prevailing in the country. Valladares Quijano, M. The lyrics that forged the indigenismo of Cuzco. (page 42)

. The importance of this magazine has been studied and disseminated by Jose Tamayo Herrera, in greater depth, in his book "El Cusco del oncenio: A regional history essay, through the source of the Kosko magazine (Cuadernos de Historia) edited by the University of Lima in 1989.

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