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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

20th Century Latin America

• WEB Latin American Studies [At UTexas]
  Perhaps the main guide on the web.
• WEB The Buried Mirror: Etexts
  A major collection of sources and secondary material on Latin American history. [At Internet Archive]

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Common Themes and Issue

• United States Interference
  • Roy R. Rubottom, Jr.: Communism in the Americas, Department of State Bulletin,  February 3, 1958 [At Historical Text Archive]
    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, [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
    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
• 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 [At Historical Text Archive][Added 7/27/98]
• 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]
    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 Romero, [At EPICA]
  • Straight Talk on Shining Path and the Catholic Church in Peru, 1992 [At csrp]
  • Phillip Berryman: Church and Revolution, NACLA Report on the Americas, March/April, 1997 [At WHA]
  • Are liberation theology, feminism compatible? [At Internet Archive, from UMR]
    On a clash between US Feminist and Liberation theologians.

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Argentina

• The rise of the radicals, 1916-1930
• The revolution of September 30, 1930 and its aftermath
• Buenos Aires between the wars: Cultural flowering
• Juan Domingo Perón: Justicialism, 1948/1950 [At this Site]
• Eva Duarte de Perón: Speech, 1950, in Spanish [At this Site]
• Eva Duarte de Perón: History of Perónism, excerpts, 1951 [At this Site]
• The military dictatorship, 1976
• Raul Alfonsin
• Cabaret and street music
• Soccer
• 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]

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Chile

• 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

• Brazil Constitution,1993   [At ICL]

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Paraguay

• Paraguay Constitution, 1992 [At ICL]

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Uruguay

• The Institution of the Welfare State

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Peru

• WEB Peruvian homepage [At Berkeley]
• José Maria Arguedas: The Pongo's Dream [At Berkeley]
• Carlos Ivan Degregor: CHAYRAQ! [At Berkeley]
  On Lima as a Quecha city.

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Central America

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Nicaragua

• Ernesto Cardenal (1925-): Poems, in English and Spanish [At ICX]

Mexico

• North American Free Trade Agreement [At Project Gutenberg]

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Cuba

• WEB Cuba [At Mt. Holyoke]
• WEB Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy--The Cuban Missile Crisis [At Mt. Holyoke]
• 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
• Rigoberta Menchú Tum: Interview: Five Hundred Years of Sacrifice Before Alien Gods, 1992 [At indians.org]

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NOTES:

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