The Argentine collections contain the extensive correspondence of Juan Domingo Peron during his years of exile, as well as the papers of several leading Peronists and socialists. Those are complemented by a major radical newspaper and pamphlet collection for the period 1899–1986, as well as by numerous papers relating to US diplomats and various leaders of labor and Trotskyist organizations.
JUAN DOMINGO PERÓN PAPERS - President of Argentina, 1946–55
JUAN ATILIO BRAMUGLIA PAPERS - Argentine minister of foreign affairs, 1946–49
HIPÓLITO JESÚS PAZ PAPERS - Argentine ambassador to the United States, 1951–55
LUIS FERNANDO CALVIÑO PAPERS - Argentine civil servant and Peronist leader
CENTRO DE DOCUMENTACIÓN E INVESTIGACIÓN DE LA CULTURA DE IZQUIERDAS EN LA ARGENTINA COLLECTION - Documentation center in Buenos Aires
TORCATO S. DI TELLA COLLECTION - Publications by political organizations in Argentina
AMÉRICO GHIOLDI PAPERS - Argentine socialist leader
JOHN DAVIS LODGE PAPERS - US ambassador to Argentina, 1969–74
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ARGENTINA LIBRARY & ARCHIVES MATERIALS
Additional Guides:
Horvath, Laszlo. A Half Century of Peronism, 1943-1993: An International Bibliography. Stanford: Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 1993.
Horvath, Laszlo. Peronism and the Three Perons: A Checklist of Writings On Peronism and On Juan Domingo, Eva, and Isabel Peron, and Their Writings, In the Hoover Institution Library and Archives and In the Stanford University Libraries. Stanford: Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 1988.
Ratliff, William, and Luis Fernando Calvino. "20th Century Argentina in the Hoover Institution Archives."
Ratliff, William, and Luis Fernando Calvino. "Guia a La Argentina del Siglo XX en los Archivos Hoover."
The Bolivian collections center on the modern period. They include the papers of trade unionist and politician Juan Lechín Oquendo and the collection of Elisabeth Burgos-Debray, which includes documentation on the trial of Régis Debray, a French writer accused of participating in the guerrilla campaign of Che Guevara in Bolivia in 1966–67. Other collections concern agricultural and educational assistance provided by the United States.
ELISABETH BURGOS-DEBRAY PAPERS - Venezuelan-French journalist
HERBERT S. KLEIN COLLECTION - Hoover Institution curator and research fellow
JUAN LECHÍN OQUENDO PAPERS - Vice-president of Bolivia, 1960–64
JEAN HELEN MEADOWCROFT PAPERS - United States Agency for International Development official
BOLIVIAN SUBJECT COLLECTION - Miscellaneous materials
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Focusing on the 1930–95 period, the Brazilian collections relate to economic and political conditions and the activities of various US and other foreign diplomats in the country. Several collections pertain to Brazil during World War II; others document the era of military rule in the 1960s and early 1970s. A few collections concern foreign investment and economic development in the modern era.
JOHN B. CORNELL PAPERS - US anthropologist in Brazil, 1965–68
HOWARD REX COTTAM PAPERS - US diplomat in Brazil, 1956–63
CHARLES ANDERSON GAULD PAPERS - US historian and author
ROBERT A. PACKENHAM PAPERS - US political scientist
BRAZILIAN SUBJECT COLLECTION - Miscellaneous materials
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The Chilean collections spotlight political and social conditions during the past four decades, particularly the period framed by the 1970 election of socialist Salvador Allende and the subsequent period (1973–93) of military rule under Augusto Pinochet. For the Pinochet era, collections concern human rights issues and free-market policies introduced to Chile. Other collections document relations between the United States and Chile in the 1970s and 1980s.
CHICAGO BOYS AND LATIN AMERICAN MARKET REFORMERS COLLECTION - Economists associated with the University of Chicago
HERNÁN CUBILLOS SALLATO PAPERS - Chilean minister of foreign affairs, 1978–80
SERGIO FERNÁNDEZ PAPERS - Chilean minister of the interior, 1978–81
JAMES DANIEL THEBERGE PAPERS - US ambassador to Chile, 1982–85
CHILEAN SUBJECT COLLECTION - Various materials
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The Colombian collections largely concern political conditions. Several contain materials on the Colombian civil war and prolonged guerrilla insurgencies. Others relate to various topics, including social and economic policy planning, political campaigns, and the history of the Chinese émigré community in that country.
CHARLES T. R. BOHANNAN PAPERS - US counterguerrilla expert
CHEN JIAXIAN PAPERS - Chinese émigré in Colombia
CORPORACIÓN OBSERVATORIO PARA LA PAZ COLLECTION - Group dedicated to peace and disarmament
ERNESTO SAMPER PIZANO COLLECTION - President of Colombia, 1994–98
COLOMBIAN SUBJECT COLLECTION- Miscellaneous materials
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These collections primarily concern political developments in and foreign relations of Costa Rica. A number pertain to the activities of contra forces based in Costa Rica during the Nicaraguan civil war of the 1980s and to the shipment of Cuban arms to Nicaragua via Costa Rica in the same period.
CENTER FOR DEMOCRACY RECORDS - US private nonprofit foundation
JORGE ROSSI CHAVARRÍA MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS - Costa Rican politician
LEONEL POVEDA SEDILES PAPERS - Nicaraguan anti-Sandinista military commander
ASAMBLEA LEGISLATIVA COMISIÓN ESPECIAL PARA QUE COORDINE Y RECIBA LA INFORMACIÓN PORVENIENTE DEL ORGANISMO DE INVESTIGATIÓN JUDICIAL Y DE LA CONTALORIA GENERAL DE LA REPÚBLICA SOBRE EL TRASIEGO DE ARMAS RECORDS - Costa Rican investigative commission
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Most of the Cuban collections concern the 1959 Cuban revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power and the subsequent years of Castro's rule. Many document economic, social, and political conditions; others pertain to the situation of Cuban refugees in the United States and the anti-Castro activities of Cuban exile organizations. A few collections deal with the 1962 Cuban missile crisis.
CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR A FREE CUBA RECORDS - US anticommunist organization
CUBAN FREEDOM COMMITTEE RECORDS - US anticommunist organization
THEODORE DRAPER PAPERS - US historian and author
RICHARD R. FAGEN PAPERS - US political scientist
GEORGIE ANNE GEYER PAPERS - US journalist and author
EARL E. T. SMITH PAPERS - US ambassador to Cuba, 1957–59
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The collections about the Dominican Republic center on US military interventions in the country, first in 1916 and again in 1965, and contain correspondence, interviews, and reports. The Theodore Draper Papers include printed matter relating to the political crisis immediately before the 1965 US intervention.
EDWARD L. BEACH TYPESCRIPT: FROM ANNAPOLIS TO SCAPA FLOW, 1941 - Captain, US Navy
THEODORE DRAPER PAPERS - US historian and author
FREDERICK KNEELAND LETTERS TO HIS PARENTS, 1919 - Enlisted man, US Marine Corps
RICHARD S. SWITZER COLLECTION - Collected interviews
THE UNITED STATES MILITARY GOVERNMENT IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, 1916 TO 1922, TYPESCRIPT - Study by the US Army School for Military Government and Administration
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These collections center on El Salvador's civil war in the 1980s, with some relating to the left-wing guerrilla movement and others pertaining to the military. Other collections focus on human rights issues in the same period.
COUNCIL FOR INTER-AMERICAN SECURITY RECORDS - US organization
NIDIA DÍAZ PAPERS - Salvadoran guerrilla leader and political prisoner
W. W. TERRY COLLECTION - Collector of materials relating to guerrilla movements
DAVID SPENCER COLLECTION - Professor, National Defense University
SALVADORAN SUBJECT COLLECTION - Miscellaneous materials
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The Guatemalan collections highlight political developments and social conditions. Several contain materials on the civil war from 1960 to 1996, including one (Burgos-Debray Papers) with extensive documentation on the life of the prominent Indian activist Rigoberta Menchú. The Jean Meadowcroft Papers are in part concerned with US educational assistance to Guatemala.
ELISABETH BURGOS-DEBRAY PAPERS - Venezuelan-French journalist
CENTER FOR DEMOCRACY RECORDS - US private nonprofit foundation
GRUPO DE APOYO MUTUO ISSUANCES - Guatemalan organization investigating missing persons
GUATEMALAN SUBJECT COLLECTION - Miscellaneous materials
JEAN HELEN MEADOWCROFT PAPERS - United States Agency for International Development official
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These collections contain significant materials on politics and Haiti's relationship with the United States. Several collections focus on the US presence in Haiti, including the 1915 military intervention that led to a prolonged occupation by US troops. Other collections relate to politics, education, and human rights in Haiti during the dictatorships of François Duvalier and his successor, Jean-Claude Duvalier.
EDWARD L. BEACH TYPESCRIPT: FROM ANNAPOLIS TO SCAPA FLOW - Captain, US Navy
GERALD AUGUSTIN DREW PAPERS - US ambassador to Haiti, 1957
LAWRENCE PECK ROCKWOOD PAPERS - Captain, US Army
ESTHER DARTIGUE TYPESCRIPT: THE CONTRIBUTION OF MAURICE DARTIGUE TO EDUCATION IN HAITI… - Wife of Haitian educator Maurice Dartigue
JAIME GUTIÉRREZ G. MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS - Materials on the Haitian émigré opposition to President François Duvalier
"The Future of Democracy in Haiti" - speech by Jean-Bertrand Aristide, former President of Haiti
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The collections span nearly a century, from the Mexican revolution period to the contemporary era. Some relate to US military intervention during the revolution. Others concern the history of Mexican radicalism, focusing on the Mexican Communist Party, various Mexican Trotskyist organizations, and the 1968 student protest movement. Several collections contain materials on modern art in Mexico in the first half of the twentieth century.
MIGUEL AROCHE PARRA PAPERS - Mexican communist leader, author, and journalist
CLARENCE CLEMENS CLENDENEN PAPERS - Colonel, US Army; Hoover Institution curator
RODOLFO ECHEVERRÍA MARTÍNEZ COLLECTION - Materials relating to Partido Comunista Mexicano
ROBERT CHARLES HILL PAPERS - US ambassador to Mexico, 1957–61
BERTRAM DAVID WOLFE PAPERS - US historian; author of works on communism
FRIDA KAHLO. "SELF PORTRAIT WITH SMALL MONKEY, 1945." POSTER COLLECTION.
MEXICAN SUBJECT COLLECTION - Miscellaneous materials
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The Nicaraguan collections are one of the largest Latin American resources in the archives. The majority concern the Sandinista government in the 1980s and the contra movement that waged war against the Sandinistas. Included are papers of Sandinista officials, materials documenting censorship of the opposition newspaper La Prensa, and records relating to the contra organization, Resistencia Nicaragüense.
ENRIQUE BERMÚDEZ VARELA PAPERS - Founder, Fuerza Democrática Nicaragüense
ROBERTO CARDENAL CH. PAPERS - Secretary of the editorial board of the Nicaraguan newspaper La Prensa
MOISÉS HASSAN M. PAPERS - Nicaraguan Sandinista political leader
RESISTENCIA NICARAGÜENSE RECORDS - Nicaraguan resistance organization
NICARAGUAN SUBJECT COLLECTION - Miscellaneous materials
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Many of the Panamanian collections concern relations between the United States and Panama, particularly US control of the Panama Canal. Others relate to the authoritarian rule of Manuel Noriega, the 1989 US invasion that led to his capture, and his subsequent trial in the United States. A few collections contain general materials on Panamanian politics.
STEVE ALBERT PAPERS - US author
THOMAS L. CRYSTAL PAPERS - Colonel, US Air Force
GODFREY HARRIS PAPERS - US political consultant
PAUL B. RYAN PAPERS - US historian
PANAMANIAN SUBJECT COLLECTION - Miscellaneous materials
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The Peruvian collections cover the time span from World War I to the modern era. Several have materials concerning the Tacna-Arrica territorial dispute between Peru and Chile. Others deal with international agricultural and education assistance programs in Peru. One pertains to the Communist Party of Peru; another relates to the Maoist guerrilla organization Sendero Luminoso.
CHARLES WELLINGTON FURLONG PAPERS - Member, Tacna-Arica Commission, 1926
WILLIAM JOHN GREEN PAPERS - US agronomist
JEAN HELEN MEADOWCROFT PAPERS - United States Agency for International Development official
PAUL NAVARRO COLLECTION - Materials related to the Partido Comunista del Perú
SENDERO LUMINOSO PUBLICATIONS - Peruvian guerrilla organization
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The collections about Venezuela largely concern the period 1950–2000. They contain materials on Venezuelan politics before the Hugo Chavez era, including documents on left-wing guerrillas in the 1960s. Other collections relate to the petroleum industry in Venezuela and attempts to introduce laissez-faire economic policies.
E. B. BROSSARD PAPERS - US political scientist and petroleum industry consultant
ELISABETH BURGOS-DEBRAY PAPERS - Venezuelan-French journalist
VLADIMIR CHELMINSKI PAPERS - Executive director, Cámara de Comercio, Caracas, Venezuela
VENEZUELAN SUBJECT COLLECTION - Miscellaneous materials
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