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Oral History Collections at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Latin America Oral Histories

Chicago boys and Latin American market reformers collection

Sound recordings and transcripts of interviews, and associated material, relating to free market policies in Chile and elsewhere in Latin America, and to the influence of economists associated with the University of Chicago in instituting them. Interviews conducted by Tobias Switzer and William E. Ratliff. Those interviewed include Rolf Lüders Schwarzenberg, Sergio de Castro, Martín Costabal Llona, Alvaro Donoso, Ernesto Fontaine, Gonzalo Vial Correa, Miguel Schweitzer, Roberto Kelly, Domingo Cavallo and Hernán Cubillos Sallato.

Photo: Chicago boys and Latin American market reformers collection, Box 1, Folder 1, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, copyright Stanford University. 

Ratliff (William E.) papers

Writings, correspondence, sound recordings of interviews, reports, memoranda, legal proceedings, internal bulletins, opinion polls, printed matter, and photographs, relating to communism in Latin America; political and economic conditions, and especially laissez-faire economics, in Argentina, elsewhere in Latin America, and Hong Kong; President José Figueres Ferrer of Costa Rica; and the Socialist Workers Party of the United States and Trotskyist groups in Latin America.

Photo: William E. Ratliff papers, Box 1, Folder 27, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, copyright Stanford University. 

Santos M. (Herard von) interviews

Digital sound recordings and transcripts of interviews of former Salvadoran military officers and guerrillas relating to guerrilla warfare and counterinsurgency operations in El Salvador in the 1970s and 1980s.

Photo: Santos M. (Herard von) interviews, Box 1, Transcripts, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, copyright Stanford University. 

Materials

Amoedo (Julio) interviews

     undated 

Relates to the Cuban revolution of 1959. Interviews conducted by Keith Botsford. Typed transcript.

Chicago boys and Latin American market reformers collection

     1992-2011

Sound recordings and transcripts of interviews, and associated material, relating to free market policies in Chile and elsewhere in Latin America, and to the influence of economists associated with the University of Chicago in instituting them. Interviews conducted by Tobias Switzer and William E. Ratliff. Those interviewed include Rolf Lüders Schwarzenberg, Sergio de Castro, Martín Costabal Llona, Alvaro Donoso, Ernesto Fontaine, Gonzalo Vial Correa, Miguel Schweitzer, Roberto Kelly, Domingo Cavallo and Hernán Cubillos Sallato.

Hernandez Trigueros (Lino) interview

     1996

Relates to Sandinista human rights violations in Nicaragua. Interview conducted by Deann M. Alford. Includes English translation transcript.

Hull (John) interviews

     1991

Relates to Nicaraguan contra guerrilla activities from Costa Rican bases, American aid to Nicaraguan guerrillas, allegations of guerrilla drug trafficking, and allegations regarding the attempted assassination of the guerrilla leader Edén Pastora. Interviews conducted by William E. Ratliff.

Landau (Saul) papers

     1969-2000

Interview transcripts, correspondence, sound recording, videotape cassettes, and motion picture film reels, relating to political conditions and revolutionary movements in Latin America.

Navarro (Paul) collection

     1965-2006

Sound recordings of interviews and printed matter, relating to the Partido Comunista del Perú (Patria Roja or Red Nation). Includes pamphlets, serial issues and programmatic statements by the party; some material relating to other Maoist parties in Peru; and a study by Paul Navarro, "Maoism in the Andes: A Concise History of the Partido Comunista del Perú--Patria Roja, 1960-1992."

Oreamuno (J. Rafael) interview

     1968

Relates to American-Costa Rican relations, and inter-American relations during World War II, especially Argentina's declaration of war and participation in the United Nations Conference on International Organization. Interview conducted by Raymond Henle. Includes typewritten transcript.

Partial Inventory of the Maria Teresa Ronderos interviews

     1998

Phonotape sound recordings of interviews of Colombian government officials and others, relating to to drug trafficking in Colombia.

Pastora Gomez (Eden) interviews

     1992

Sound recordings of interviews, relating to the Nicaraguan revolution of 1979, Nicaraguan-Cuban relations, and the Nicaraguan contra guerrilla war. Includes typed notes made from the interviews. Interviews conducted by William E. Ratliff

Ratliff (William E.) papers

     1942-2012

Writings, correspondence, sound recordings of interviews, reports, memoranda, legal proceedings, internal bulletins, opinion polls, printed matter, and photographs, relating to communism in Latin America; political and economic conditions, and especially laissez-faire economics, in Argentina, elsewhere in Latin America, and Hong Kong; President José Figueres Ferrer of Costa Rica; and the Socialist Workers Party of the United States and Trotskyist groups in Latin America.

Ritchie (Lorelei D.) Interviews

     1992

Interviews with Panamanian politicians, journalists, businessmen, and university officials, relating to political, economic and human rights conditions in Panama. 

Santos M. (Herard von) interviews

     2002

Digital sound recordings and transcripts of interviews of former Salvadoran military officers and guerrillas relating to guerrilla warfare and counterinsurgency operations in El Salvador in the 1970s and 1980s.