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Chapter 1. Why Latin America?
Timeline of Key Events
Further Reading
Guide to Internet Resources
Sample Syllabi
Discussion Questions
Chapter 2. The Colonial Foundations
Timeline for Colonial Latin America, 1492-1824
Colonial Latin American Profiles and Personalities
Moments and Events in Late Colonial Latin America
Analysis of Arthur Syzk’s “Bolívar and Sucre at Junin,” oil on canvas (1950)
Simón Bolívar and Restrained Republicanism
Primary Documents
Document #1: “Letter from Jamaica,” Simón Bolívar (1815)
Document #2: “Address at the Congress of Angostura,” Simón Bolívar (1819)
Travels in Colonial Latin America
Discussion Questions
Further Reading
Chapter 3. Mexico: The Taming of a Revolution
Timeline for Mexico: 1519-Present
Mexican Heads of State
Mexican Profiles and Personalities
Moments and Events in Mexico
The Lower Classes and Revolution
Eugenics in Nation Building
Mexican Muralism
Targeting the Media
Inside Mexico’s Drug Wars
Travels in Mexico
“Travels and Adventures,” William Carpenter (1851)
“A Mexican Journey,” E.H. Blichfeldt (1912)
Primary Documents
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,” Emiliano 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)
Discussion Questions
Further Reading
Chapter 4. Central America: Within the U.S. Orbit
Timeline for Central America, 1502-Present
Central American Heads of State
Central American Profiles and Personalities
Moments and Events in Central America
Forced Disappearance and Impunity in El Jute, Guatemala
Travels in Central America
Primary Documents
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 the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post,” U.S. Department of State and Alexander Haig (1981)
Document #12: “Testimonies of Guatemalan Women,” Luz Alicia Herrera (1980)
Discussion Questions
Further Reading
Chapter 5. Cuba: Key Colony, Socialist State
Timeline for Cuba, 1492-Present
Cuban Heads of State
Cuban Profiles and Personalities
Moments and Events in Cuba
From Haciendas to the Peal of the Antilles
The Castro Touch
Travels in Cuba
“The Island of Cuba,” Alexander von Humboldt (1856)
“Through Afro-America,” William Archer (1910)
Primary Documents
Document #13: “Montecristi Manifesto,” by José Martí and Máximo Gómez (1895)
Document #14: “My Race,” Jose Martí (1893)
Document #15: “History Will Absolve Me,” by Fidel Castro (1953)
Document #17: “What is Cuba’s Sin?,” Fidel Castro (2003)
Document #16: “Statement from Mexico City,” Juana Castro (1964)
Discussion Questions
Further Reading
Elements of Caribbean History
Chapter 6. The Andes: Soldiers, Oligarchs, and Indians
Timeline for the Andes
Andean Heads of State
Andean Profiles and Personalities
Moments and Events in the Andes
Indigenous Women
Independent Ecuador
Coca Culture
Chinese in Peru in the 19th century
Indigenous Mobilization in Ecuador
Oil in the Amazon
Memories of Violence, Peace, and Justice in Peru
The Rise of Evo Morales
Travels in the Andes
Across Patagonia, Lady Florence Dixie (1881)
Primary Documents
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)
Discussion Questions
Further Reading
Chapter 7. Colombia: Civility and Violence
Timeline for Colombia, 1499-Present
Colombian Heads of State
Colombian Profiles and Personalities
Moments and Events in Colombia
Educating Change in Colombia
Travels in Colombia
Primary Documents
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)
Discussion Questions
Further Reading
Chapter 8. Venezuela: The Perils of Prosperity
Timeline for Venezuela, 1749-Present
Venezuelan Heads of State
Venezuelan Profiles and Personalities
Moments and Events in Venezuela
Venezuela and El Libertador
The Pink Tide in Latin America
Travels in Venezuela
Primary Documents
Document #23: “Address to the United Nations,” Hugo Chávez (2006)
Document #22: “Pact of Punto Fijo,” Acción Democrática, COPEI and Unión Republicana Democrática (1958)
Discussion Questions
Further Reading
Chapter 9. Argentina: Progress, Stalemate, Discord
Timeline for Argentina, 1776-Present
Argentine Heads of State
Argentine Profiles and Personalities
Moments and Events in Argentina
Jewish Immigration to Argentina
Disappeared Writers
The Role of the Church in Argentina
Understanding Argentina’s Dirty War Through Memoir
The Challenge of Burying the Ley de Caducidad in Uruguay
Travels in Argentina
“The Spanish-American Republics,” Theodore Child (1891)
Primary Documents
Document #24: “What is Peronism?” by Juan Domingo Perón (1948) || “The Twenty Truths of the 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)
Discussion Questions
Further Reading
Chapter 10. Chile: Repression and Democracy
Chilean Heads of State
Chilean Profiles and Personalities
Timeline for Chile, 1535-Present
Moments and Events in Chile
Muralism and Nueva Cancíon
Nunca Más
Travels in Chile
“A Voyage from the United States to South America,” Thomas Bennett (1821)
Primary Documents
Document #28: “Final Speech,” Salvador Allende (1973)
Document #29: “Military Decrees on Seizing Power,” Augusto Pinochet (1973)
Document #30: “Inaugural Address,” Michelle Bachelet (2006)
Discussion Questions
Further Reading
Chapter 11. Brazil: The Awakening Giant
Timeline for Brazil, 1500-Present
Brazilian Heads of State
Brazilian Profiles and Personalities
Moments and Events in Brazil
A Romanticism of Slavery and the Plantation Economy
Brasilia: Constructing a Modern Identity
“Casa Grande e Senzala” and the Formation of a New Brazilian Identity
Dom Pedro II’s Acceptance of Exile
Amnesty, Amnesia, and Moral Reparations in Brazil
Travels in Brazil
“Exploración oficial por la primera vez desde el norte de la America del Sur…Viaje a Rio de Janeiro,” Francisco Michelena y Rojas (1867)
“I Like Brazil,” Jack Harding (1941)
Primary Documents
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 Sattamini Pena de Arruda (1971)
Document #34: “Speech of the President of the Republic in the ceremony installing the Truth Commission,” Dilma Rousseff (2012)
Discussion Questions
Further Reading
Chapter 12. Strategies for Economic Development
Fair Trade for Development
Moments and Events in Latin American Economic Development
Puerto Rico’s Operation Bootstrap
Primary Documents
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)
NAFTA and the Environment in Mexico
Discussion Questions
Further Reading
Chapter 13. Dynamics of Political Transformation
Supplement: Comparative Historical Analysis
Moments and Events of Political Transformation
Discussion Questions
Further Reading
Chapter 14. Culture and Society
Essays on Culture and Society
The Historical and Contemporary Role of Women in Ecuadorian Society
Liberation Theology in Latin America
Third Cinema in Argentina
Brazilian Samba’s Translation and Dialogue with International Dancesport
History of the Literary Movement in Peru
Latin America at the Movies
Argentina – Latin America at the Movies
Bolivia – Latin America at the Movies
Brazil – Latin America at the Movies
Chile – Latin America at the Movies
Cuba – Latin America at the Movies
Dominican Republic – Latin America at the Movies
Ecuador – Latin America at the Movies
El Salvador – Latin America at the Movies
Guatemala – Latin America at the Movies
Haiti – Latin America at the Movies
Mexico – Latin America at the Movies
Nicaragua – Latin America at the Movies
Peru – Latin America at the Movies
Uruguay – Latin America at the Movies
Venezuela – Latin America at the Movies
Discussion Questions
Further Reading
Chapter 15. Latin America in the World Arena, 1800s-1980s
Moments and Events in U.S.-Latin American Relations (1800s-1980s)
A History of United States Policy Towards Haiti
Occupational Hazards
Document #46: Human Rights in Latin America: An Interview with Paulo Sérgio Pinherio
Luis Muñoz Martin: Founding Father of Modern Puerto Rico
Primary Documents
Document #37: “Monroe Doctrine,” James Monroe (1823)
Document #38 Abraham Lincoln on the Mexican-American War (1846-48)
Document #39: “Roosevelt Corollary,” Theodore Roosevelt (1904)
Document #40: “Brazil, the United States and Pan Americanism”
Document #35: “United Fruit Co.,” Pablo Neruda (1950)
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)
Discussion Questions
Further Reading
Chapter 16. Latin America in the World Arena, 1990s – Present
Discussion Questions
Further Readings
Honduras: A Country and a Coup
Moments and Events in Contemporary US-Latin American Relations
Document #43: Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) statement on Honduras
Primary Documents
Document #42 President Obama’s speech at the 2009 Summit of the Americas
Document #44: The Path Forward for Honduras
Document #45 Honduras: The Obama Administration’s First Latin American Waterloo (2009)
Document #47 Hillary Clinton’s speech on Opportunity in the Americas (2010)
A List of All Primary Documents
Timeline for Venezuela, 1749-Present
