This article reviews Raul Gonzalez Tuñón’s production between 1950 and 1960 in the light of the Communist Party’s action programs in the context of the Cold War. Firstly, the programmatic texts where he explicitly posits a literary project for the Latin American countries under imperialist threat are analyzed. Then, the guidelines of this project are taken as a starting point for reading his poems, as an intervention linked to the party’s slogans for cultural freedom and the struggle for peace.