This article investigates the translation practice of three influential twentieth-century Caribbean journals: Tropiques, Bim, and Casa de las Américas. It offers a comparative description of their translation praxis taking into account the editorial vision of each and the specificity of its translation practice, focusing specifically on the origin and selection of translated texts. The analysis aims to take translation as a starting point and as a key element to understand the journals’ narrative praxis and to shed light on the relationship between intellectual production and the so-called colonial matrix. The article discusses translation practices in light of broader editorial practices and of the extent to which each journal realizes, via translation, its decolonial possibilities. Ultimately, it seeks to reveal the contours of an image of the Caribbean that emerges from each journal’s discursive fabric.