A List of All Primary Documents

Chapter 2

Document #1: “Letter from Jamaica,” Simón Bolívar (1815)

Document #2: “Address at the Congress of Angostura,” Simón Bolívar (1819)

Chapter 3

Document #3: “President Diaz: Hero of the Americas,” James Creelman (1908)

Document #4: “Plan de San Luis de Potosí,” Francisco Madero (1910)

Document #5: “Program of the Liberal Party,” Ricardo Flores Magón (1911)

Document #6: “Plan de Ayala,” Emilio Zapata (1911)

Document #7: “Speech to the Nation,” Lázaro Cárdenas (1938)

Document #8: “First Declaration from the Lacandon Jungle, Today We Say ‘Enough is Enough!’ (Ya Basta!),” EZLN Command (1993)

Chapter 4

Document #9: “Introduction to the Shark and the Sardines,” Juan José Arévalo (1956)

Document #10: “Acceptance and Nobel Lecture,” Rigoberta Menchú (1992)

Document #11: “Special Report No. 80: Communist Interference in El Salvador,” and “Response to Stories Published in Wall Street Journal and Washington Post,” U.S. Department of State and Alexander Haig (1981)

Document #12:  “Testimonies of Guatemalan Women,” Luz Alicia Herrera (1980)

Chapter 5

Document #13: “Montecristi Manifesto,” José Martí and Máximo Gómez (1895)

Document #14: “My Race,” José Martí (1893)

Document #15: “History Will Absolve Me,” Fidel Castro (1953)

Document #16: “Statement from Mexico City,” Juana Castro (1964)

Document #17: What is Cuba’s Sin?,” Fidel Castro (2003)

Chapter 6

Document #18: “Pulacyo Theses,” The Union Federation of Bolivian Mineworkers (1946)

Document #19: “Law of the Rights of Mother Earth,” Plurinational Legislative Assembly of Bolivia (2010)

Chapter 7

Document #20: “Press Release from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia,” Secretariat of the Central General Command of the FARC-EP (2002)

Document #21: “Statement by Humberto de la Calle, Head of the Government Delegation to the Conversations Table,” Humberto de la Calle (2013)

Chapter 8

Document #22: ”Pact of Punto Fijo,” Acción Democrática, COPEI and Unión Republicana Democrática (1958)

Document #23: “Address to the United Nations,” Hugo Chávez (2006)

Chapter 9

Document #24: “What is Perónism?” (1948) || “The Twenty Truths of Perónist Justicialism,” Juan Domingo Perón (1950)

Document #25: Statement by the military upon taking power (1976)

Document #26: ”Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech,” Adolfo Pérez Esquivel (1980)

Document #27: “Speech at a Dinner with the Council of Americas in New York,” Néstor Kirchner (2006)

Chapter 10

Document #28: “Final Speech,” Salvador Allende (1973)

Document #29: “Military Decrees on Seizing Power,” Augusto Pinochet (1973)

Document #30: “Inaugural Address,” Michelle Bachelet (2006)

Chapter 11

Document #31: “On Slavery in Brazil,” Thomas Ewbank (1856)

Document #32: State Department Telegram to Ambassador Lincoln Gordon (1964)

Document #33: “Letter to Pope Paul VI,” Marcos Settamini Pena de Arruda (1971)

Document #34: “Speech of the President of the Republic in the ceremony installing the Truth Commission,” Dilma Rousseff (2012)

Chapter 12

Document #35: “Testimony before Congress on the Goals of NAFTA and Preliminary Evaluation,” C. Fred Bergsten (1997)

Document #36: “NAFTA Equals Death, Say Peasant Farmers,” Diego Cevalos (2002)

Chapter 15

Document #37: “Monroe Doctrine,” James Monroe (1823)

Document #38: “Abraham Lincoln on the Mexican-American War (1848)”

Document #39: “Roosevelt Corollary,” Theodore Roosevelt (1904)

Document #40: “Brazil, the United States, and Pan-Americanism,” Baron of Rio Branco (1905)”

Document #41: “Address at a White House Reception for Members of Congress and for the Diplomatic Corps of the Latin American Republics,” John F. Kennedy (1961)

Chapter 16

Document #42 President Obama’s speech at the 2009 Summit of the Americas

Document #43 A Washington Office on Latin America statement on Honduras

Document #44 The Path Forward for Honduras

Document #45 Honduras: The Obama Administration’s First Latin American Waterloo

Document #46 Human Rights in Latin America: An interview with Paulo Sérgio Pinherio

Document #47 Hillary Clinton’s speech on Opportunity in the Americas