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Internet Modern History Sourcebook

20th Century Latin America

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Contents

• 20th Century Latin America
• Common Themes and Issue
  • United States Interference
  • Pan-American Efforts
  • Economic Progress
  • National Identity
  • Liberation Theology
• Argentina
• Chile
• Brazil
• Paraguay
• Uruguay
• Peru
• Central America
• Nicaragua
• Mexico
• Cuba
• Indigenous Peoples

• WEB LANIC Latin American Network Information Center [At UTexas] [Internet Archive version here]
  Perhaps the main guide on the web.
• WEB History : Latin America: Primary Sources: Mexico, Central America, Caribbean [University of Washington]
• WEB Modern Latin America [Brown University] [Internet Archive version here]
  This is a very useful site. It covers each region/country of modern Latin American, had topical essays, and a selection of primary sources for each chapter

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Common Themes and Issue

• United States Interference
  • Timeline of US Intervention in Latin America [Was At Kansas, now Internet Archive]
  • Roy R. Rubottom, Jr.: Communism in the Americas Department of State Bulletin,  February 3, 1958 [Was At Historical Text Archive, now Internet Archive] See also facsimile [At Google Books]
    Cold War view of Communist efforts in Latin America.
  • Senator Fulbright: Appraisal of US Policy in the Dominican Crisis September 15, 1965  [At this Site]
    A wide-ranging critique of US foreign policy.
  • Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.: The Lowering Hemisphere The Atlantic Monthly, January, 1970 [Was At The Atlantic, now Internet Archive]
    On US policy in Latin America.
• Pan-American Efforts
  • Operation Pan-America 1958  [At this Site]
    An Aide Mémoire sent Brazil to other American States, August 9, 1958
  • President John F. Kennedy: On the Alliance for Progress 1961  [At this Site]
  • Alberto Lleras: Report on the Alliance for Progress 1963  [At this Site]
• Economic Progress
  • Inter-American Committee: Problems of Latin American Economies 1965   [At this Site]
• National Identity
  • 2ND Roger P. Davis: "The Odyssey of Identity: Culture and Politics in the Evolution of Latin American Nationalism," Platte \/alley Review, 15:1 (Spring, 1987), 36-45 [Was At HTA, now Internet Archive]
• Liberation Theology
  • Pope Paul VI: Populorum Progressio: The Development of Peoples 1967 [At the Vatican]
    Probably the most radical encyclical ever issued. Vigorously anti-liberal capitalism, Paul VI is mistaken as a "conservative" by those who think only of his teaching on contraception.
  • Pope John Paul II: Opening Address at the Puebla Conference 1979 [At EWTN] [Internet Archive version here]
    Far more worried than Paul VI about correct doctrine, but not opposed to social justice.
  • Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith Instruction on Certain Aspects of "Theology of Liberation" August 6, 1984 [At New Advent]
  • Gustavo Gutierrez: Solidarity: The Victory of Life homily on death of Archbishop Oscar Romero [Was At EPICA, now Internet Archive]
  • Straight Talk on Shining Path and the Catholic Church in Peru 1992 [Was At csrp, now Internet Archive]
  • Phillip Berryman: Church and Revolution NACLA Report on the Americas, March/April, 1997 [At WHA] [Internet Archive version here]
  • Are liberation theology, feminism compatible? [Was At UMR, now Internet Archive]
    On a clash between US Feminist and Liberation theologians.

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Argentina

• WEB Wikisource: Argentina
• Wikipedia: History of Argentina
  Basic peridisation and chronology
• Wikipedia: History of the Jews in Argentina
  The Jewish population in Argentina is the largest in Latin America, the third largest in the Americas, and the world's seventh largest outside Israel.
• Wikipedia: 1930 Argentine coup d'état
  The revolution of September 30, 1930 and its aftermath
• Juan Domingo Perón: Justicialism 1948/1950 [At this Site]
• Eva Duarte de Perón: Speech 1950, in Spanish with AI English translateion [At this Site]
• Eva Duarte de Perón: History of Perónism excerpts, 1951 [At this Site]
• 2ND María Fernanda Arias: Charismatic Leadership and the Transition to Democracy: The Rise of Carlos Saúl Menem in Argentine Politics Texas Papers on Latin America Paper No. 95-02 [At Lanic] [Internet Archive version here]

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Chile

• WEB Wikisource: Chile
• Wikipedia: History of Chile
  Chronology, periodisation, maps, and illustrations.
• Pablo Neruda (1904-1973): Poems [At Poem Hunter]
  Nobel Prize winner, and one of the writers of the century.
• Pinochet

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Brazil

• WEB Wikisource: Brazil
• Wikipedia: History of Brazil
  Chronology, periodisation, maps, and illustrations.
• Wikipedia: Brazilian Revolution of 1930
• Brazil Constitution [At ICL]

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Paraguay

• WEB Wikisource: Paraguay
• Wikipedia: History of Paraguay
  Chronology, periodisation, maps, and illustrations
• Paraguay Constitution [At ICL]

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Uruguay

• Wikipedia: History of Uruguay
• The Institution of the Welfare State

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Peru

• WEB Wikisource: Peru
• Wikipedia: History of Peru
  Chronology, periodisation, maps, and illustrations
• José Maria Arguedas: The Pongo's Dream [Was At Berkeley, now Internet Archive]
• Carlos Ivan Degregor: CHAYRAQ! [Was At Berkeley, now Internet Archive]
  On Lima as a Quecha city.

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Central America

• WEB Wikisource: Colombia
• WEB Wikisource: Panama
• Wikipedia: History of Colombia
  Chronology, periodisation, maps, and illustrations.

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Nicaragua

• WEB Wikisource: Nicaragua
• Wikipedia: History of Nicaragua
  Chronology, periodisation, maps, and illustrations
• Ernesto Cardenal (1925-2020): Poems in English and Spanish [Was At ICX, now Internet Archive]

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• WEB Wikisource: Mexico
• Wikipedia: History of Mexico
• North American Free Trade Agreement 1992 [At Project Gutenberg]

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Cuba

• WEB Wikisource: Cuba
• Wikipedia: History of Cuba
  Chronology, periodisation, maps, and illustrations.
• Nikita Khruschchev:  Speech to the RFSR Teacher's Congress - on Cuba Moscow, July 9, 1960  [At this Site]
• John F. Kennedy: The Lesson of Cuba 1961 [At this Site]
• United Nations: Cuban Missile Crisis Debate 1962 [At this Site]
• John F. Kennedy: Address on the Cuban Crisis October 22, 1962 [At this Site]
• Fidel Castro: Second Declaration of Havana 1962 [At this Site]
• Fidel Castro: On The Export of Revolution [At this Site]

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Indigenous Peoples

• WEB Indigenous Peoples' Literature [Internet Archive version here]
• Wikipedia: Indigenous peoples of South America
• Rigoberta Menchú Tum: Interview: Five Hundred Years of Sacrifice Before Alien Gods 1992 [At indians.org] [Internet Archive version here]

NOTES:

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