This article examines how people gathered and transmitted political information in Colombia during the second half of the nineteenth century. Existing scholarship has predominantly focused on the study of the press in Colombia and Latin America. However, few historians have explored other forms of information, such as telegrams, rumours and letters, or how Colombians combined these. By focusing on how various forms of information circulated through political, familial and commercial networks, this study offers a new dimension to our understanding of communications in Colombia. It argues that this was a period of increasing circulation of information due to social, political and economic change, as well as new links between oral and written practices. Thus, this article illuminates how Colombians circulated political information in a society of restricted literacy in post-colonial Latin America, offering new insights into politics, communications and the interplay between written and oral culture.

本文探讨了十九世纪下半叶哥伦比亚人如何收集和传播政治信息。现有的学术研究主要集中在哥伦比亚和拉丁美洲的新闻研究上。然而，很少有历史学家探索其他形式的信息，例如电报、谣言和信件，或者哥伦比亚人如何将这些结合起来。通过关注各种形式的信息如何通过政治、家庭和商业网络传播，这项研究为我们理解哥伦比亚的传播提供了一个新的维度。它认为，由于社会、政治和经济的变化，以及口头和书面实践之间的新联系，这是一个信息流通不断增加的时期。因此，本文阐述了哥伦比亚人如何在后殖民拉丁美洲的识字能力受到限制的社会中传播政治信息，为政治、传播以及书面文化和口头文化之间的相互作用提供了新的见解。