[Varieties magazine cover, Nº 65]

Cover of the magazine Variedades, edition number 65. Variedades was an illustrated weekly publication from Lima, which circulated between 1908 and 1932, recognized for developing graphic journalism at the beginning of the 20th century in Peru, as well as for providing testimony of political, social and culture of the Peruvian capital. It was the successor to the Lima magazine Prisma (1905 - 1907). Its editor until 1930 was the writer and literary critic Clemente Palma (Lima, 1872 - 1946).
In particular, the image refers to the elections for senators and deputies held in May 1909, stating in its editorial that they had been held without major problems. Paradoxically, the same day that this issue appeared in circulation, an uprising took place in which President Leguía was kidnapped. The caricature was made by Julio Málaga Grenet (Arequipa, 1886 - Lima, 1963).