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Introduction
Chapter 1 - Independence Narratives, Past and Present
Weblinks
Alexander Von Humboldt: Problems and Progress in Mexico, c. 1800 http://www.fordham.edu/
Link to Alexander Von Humboldt Digital Library http://avhumboldt.net/
Biblioteca Virtual de Simón Bolivar (Writings in Spanish and English) http://www.reocities.com/Athens/Biblioteca
Address at the Congress de Angustura http://www.reocities.com/Athens/ (Spanish version) http://www.fordham.edu (English version)
Bolivar's Manifiesto de Cartagena http://www.monografias.com/ (in Spanish)
Plan de Iguala http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/iguala.htm
Study Guide
Documents
Chapter 2 - Caudillos versus the Nation State
Weblinks
The Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo, 2 Feb 1848 http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/
El Gaucho Martín Fierro by José Hernández http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/14765 (in Spanish)
Excerpts from Martín Fierro, 1872, 1879 http://faculty.chass.ncsu.edu/
Establishing Borders: The Expansion of the United States, 1846–48 http://smithsonianeducation.org/educators/
Study Guide
Documents
Chapter 3 - Race and Citizenship in the New Republics
Weblinks
Pope Leo XIII: Encyclical In Plurimus (On the Abolition of Slavery in Brazil), 1888. http://www.vatican.va/
Pierre Denis: The Coffee Fazenda of Brazil, excerpts. 1911 http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/
UNESCO website on the history of Slavery http://portal.unesco.org/culture/
History of Slavery http://www.casahistoria.net/slavery.htm
Study Guide
Chapter 4 - The Export Boom as Modernity
Weblinks
Relics & Selves: Iconographies of the National in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, 1880–1890 (photos) http://www.bbk.ac.uk/ibamuseum/
Creelman interview in Spanish www.bibliotecas.tv/zapata/bibliografia
Emiliano Zapata, documents online www.bibliotecas.tv/zapata/ (in Spanish)
Francisco Madero: The Plan of San Luis Potosi, November 20, 1910 http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ See also http://faculty.chass.ncsu.edu/
Andres Molina Enriques: Los grandes problemas nacionales http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/ (in Spanish)
Images of the Paseo de la Reforma, 1860s–2004 (photos) http://www.mexicomaxico.org/
Study Guide
Chapter 5 - Signs of Crisis in a Gilded Age
Weblinks
La Construccion Social de America Latina: Fragmentos de un imaginaria regional, 1850–1920 (photos) http://www.catedras.fsoc.
The Mexican Revolution http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/
Postcards of the Mexican Revolution http://www.netdotcom.com/
Excerpt from Barbarous Mexico (John Kenneth Turner) http://historicaltextarchive.com/
Fotografias y grabados de Emiliano Zapata http://members.tripod.com/
The Mexican Revolution: Conflict in Matamoros http://runyon.lib.utexas.edu/
Mexico: Constitución de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos, 31 de enero de 1917 http://www.solon.org/Constitutions/
José Enrique Rodó, Ariel www.gutenberg.org/etext/ (in Spanish)
Mariategui Internet archive www.marxists.org/archive/
Study Guide
Chapter 6 - Commerce, Coercion, and America's Empire
Weblinks
Spanish–American War www.spanamwar.com/
The World of 1898: The Spanish–American War (Library of Congress) http://www.loc.gov/rr/
Convention Between the US and Panama (Panama Canal), 1903 (By which the US acquired Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Phillipines) http://www.fordham.edu/
Treaty of Peace Between the United States and Spain, 1898 (By which the US acquired Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Phillipines) http://avalon.law.yale.edu/
The Platt Amendment, 1901 http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/
US Intervention in Nicaragua, 1912 (photos) http://www.latinamericanstudies.org
Richard Slatta: Documents of US Policy in Latin America http://faculty.chass.ncsu.edu/
The United States and Latin America http://www.casahistoria.net/uslatam.htm
Study Guide
Videos
Journey to Bananaland:
Silent War:
Documents
Chapter 7 - Power to the People
Weblinks
Eva Duarte de Perón (History of Peronism, excerpts, 1951) http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1951evaperon.html
Juan Domingo Perón: Justicialism http://www.fordham.edu/
Evita Perón Historical Research Foundation http://www.evitaperon.org/
Casa Historia on Juan and Eva Peron http://www.casahistoria.net
Tango www.todotango.com
Juan Domingo Perón: Justicialism, 1948/1950 http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1950peronism2.html
Study Guide
Videos
Chapter 8 - A Decade of Revolution in Cuba
Weblinks
Fidel Castro: Second Declaration of Havana, 1962 http://www.fordham.edu/
Che Guevara Internet Archive http://www.marxists.org/guevara
Fidel Castro Internet Archive http://www.marxists.org/cuba
Fidel Castro "History Will Absolve Me,", 1953 http://www.marxists.org/cuba/1953
Cuban History Archive http://www.marxists.org/cubanhistory
Castro Speech Database (LANIC) http://lanic.utexas.edu/
Cuban Poster Art http://www.docspopuli.org/
Study Guide
Documents
Chapter 9 - The Terror
Weblinks
Salvador Allende Archive http://www.marxists.org/archive/
President John F. Kennedy: On the Alliance for Progress, 1961 http://www.fordham.edu/
Inter-American Committee: Problems of Latin American Economies, 1965 http://www.fordham.edu/
The Vanished Gallery http://www.yendor.com/vanished/
Covert Action in Chile, 1963–1973. Staff Report of the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, United States Senate, 94th Congress, 1st Session http://www.fas.org/
Peru Truth and Reconciliation Commission http://www.cverdad.org.pe/
Fujimori on Trial http://fujimoriontrial.org/
Web page centered on the MRTA www.cedema.org/ (in Spanish)
Rettig Commission http://www.usip.org/
Argentina National Commission on the Disappeared http://www.usip.org/
Study Guide
Videos
Chapter 10 - Speaking Truth to Power
Weblinks
Rigoberta Menchú Tum: Interview: Five Hundred Years of Sacrifice Before Alien Gods, 1992 http://www.indians.org/welker/menchu2.htm
Peasant Social Worlds and Their Transformation, University of Manchester (UK) http://era.anthropology.ac.uk/Era_Resources/Era/Peasants/
The Mapuche Nation http://www.mapuche-nation.org/
Liberation Theology: A Chronology http://home.comcast.net/~chtongyu/liberation/chronology.html
Madres de la Plaza de Mayo http://www.yendor.com/vanished/madres.html
Los Pueblos Indígenas de Mexico www.cdi.gob.mx
CONAIE English: www.conaie.nativeweb.org/
CONAIE Spanish: www.conaie.org.
EZLN (Spanish) http://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/
EZLN (English) http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/mexico.html
EZLN Communiques (in English) http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/mexico/ezlnco.html
Amnesty International www.amnesty.org/
Human Rights Watch www.hrw.org/
Derechos Humanos en America Latina, Eqiupo Nizkor http://www.derechos.org/nizkor/eng.html
Human Rights in Latin America, LANIC http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/hrights/
Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos http://www.iidh.ed.cr/
Servicio Paz y Justicia (SERPAJ), Uruguay http://www.serpaj.org.uy/serpajph/
Abuelas de la Plaza de Mayo, Argentina Spanish: http://www.abuelas.org.ar/
Abuelas de la Plaza de Mayo, Argentina English: http://www.abuelas.org.ar/english/history.htm
H.I.J.O.S., Argentina http://www.hijos-capital.org.ar/
The MIR (Chile), Spanish http://www.mir-chile.cl/
Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) http://www.wola.org/
History of International Migration http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/history/migration/
Migration Information Source http://www.migrationinformation.org/usfocus/display.cfm?ID=208
Border History http://www.pbs.org/kpbs/theborder/history/index.html
Study Guide
Videos
(WARNING: Video 10.3 is a disturbing video, in which we see the deaths of 17 peasants at the hands of the police)
Chapter 11 - Towards an Uncertain Future
Weblinks
Mining Watch http://www.miningwatch.ca/
McGill Research Group Investigating Canadian Mining in Latin America http://micla.ca/
Latin America: Mining in Conflict, an Interactive Map http://pulitzercenter.org/reporting/
Chevron's version of the Ecuador Lawsuit http://www.chevron.com/
The Plaintiffs in the Chevron Case in Ecuador http://chevrontoxico.com/
Web page dedicated to the history of oil in Mexico www.colmex.mx/ceh/petroleo (in Spanish)
Pro-government Venezuelan site http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/
Bolivia Blogs http://blogsbolivia.blogspot.com/