In 1967 during a meeting with Alejo Carpentier, Julio Cortázar, and Miguel Otero Silva, the Mexican author Carlos Fuentes launched a project consisting of a series of biographies depicting Latin American dictators, which was to be called Los Padres de la Patria (The Fathers of the Fatherland).
Julio Iglesias | Julio Cortázar | Julio César Chávez | Julio Le Parc | Julio Frenk | Júlio Dantas | Julio César García | Nueve de Julio | Julio Medem | Julio Argentino Roca | Julio Zuleta | Julio María Sanguinetti | Julio Jaramillo | Julio Franco | Julio Cobos | Júlio César Soares Espíndola | Julio César Romero | Julio César Green | Julio Bocca | Jorge Julio | Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard | Julio Toro | Julio Terrazas Sandoval | Julio Ricardo Cruz | Julio Nakpil | Julio Moizeszowicz | Julio García Espinosa | Julio Escoto | Julio E. Rubio | Julio de Vido |
He subsequently hosted many other programs, finally becoming presenter of the interview program A fondo (1976–1981), in which he had the opportunity to interview Salvador Dalí, Jorge Luis Borges, Octavio Paz, Julio Cortázar, Camilo José Cela, Bernardo Bertolucci, Frederick Forsyth, Elia Kazan, Antonio Gala, Atahualpa Yupanqui, Francisco Umbral, Julio Iglesias and Silvio Fanti among others.
She wrote and edited left-wing literary journals during the Dirty War of state-sponsored violence in the 1970s and 1980s, using veiled critiques as a means of protest and engaging in vigorous debate with exiled writers such as Julio Cortázar.
Los autonautas de la cosmopista ("The Autonauts of the Cosmoroute") is a book written by Julio Cortázar in collaboration with Carol Dunlop two years before Julio's death.
The center also includes a small convention center for up to 1200 visitors, divided into the Alfonsina Storni, Pablo Casals and Julio Cortázar Rooms.
The first issue had photographs by Ruby Ray and articles on Factrix, The Slits, conspiracies (written by Jay Kinney), Young Marble Giants, Boyd Rice's Non, Cabaret Voltaire, Sun Ra, flashcards, Japan, J. G. Ballard, Julio Cortázar, rhythm & noise, Soldier of Fortune Magazine, Throbbing Gristle, nuclear disaster, Situationism, Octavio Paz, and punk prostitutes.
Photographs he took in Paris by Notre Dame Cathedral, which revealed scenes of a couple only upon processing, became the basis for Julio Cortázar's story, "Las Babas del Diablo", "The Devil's Drool", which in turn inspired Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 film Blowup.
Latin American authors who figured in prominent literary critic Harold Bloom's The Western Canon list of the most enduring works of world literature include: Rubén Dário, Jorge Luis Borges, Alejo Carpentier, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Severo Sarduy, Reinaldo Arenas, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, César Vallejo, Miguel Ángel Asturias, José Lezama Lima, José Donoso, Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Carlos Fuentes, and Carlos Drummond de Andrade.