Beatriz Allende

Beatriz Allende
Author: Tanya Harmer
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2020-03-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 146965430X

This biography of Beatriz Allende (1942–1977)—revolutionary doctor and daughter of Chile's socialist president, Salvador Allende—portrays what it means to live, love, and fight for change. Inspired by the Cuban Revolution, Beatriz and her generation drove political campaigns, university reform, public health programs, internationalist guerrilla insurgencies, and government strategies. Centering Beatriz's life within the global contours of the Cold War era, Tanya Harmer exposes the promises and paradoxes of the revolutionary wave that swept through Latin America in the long 1960s. Drawing on exclusive access to Beatriz's private papers, as well as firsthand interviews, Harmer connects the private and political as she reveals the human dimensions of radical upheaval. Exiled to Havana after Chile's right-wing military coup, Beatriz worked tirelessly to oppose dictatorship back home. Harmer's interviews make vivid the terrible consequences of the coup for the Chilean Left, the realities of everyday life in Havana, and the unceasing demands of solidarity work that drained Beatriz and her generation of the dreams they once had. Her story demolishes the myth that women were simply extras in the story of Latin America's Left and brings home the immense cost of a revolutionary moment's demise.

Of Love and Shadows

Of Love and Shadows
Author: Isabel Allende
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2016-03-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1501117041

A woman reporter in a Latin American country and a photographer are sent on a routine assignment. The two uncover a hideous crime, the revelation of which could challenge the terrorism of the military regime.

Allende’s Chile and the Inter-American Cold War

Allende’s Chile and the Inter-American Cold War
Author: Tanya Harmer
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2011-10-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780807869246

Fidel Castro described Salvador Allende's democratic election as president of Chile in 1970 as the most important revolutionary triumph in Latin America after the Cuban revolution. Yet celebrations were short lived. In Washington, the Nixon administration vowed to destroy Allende's left-wing government while Chilean opposition forces mobilized against him. The result was a battle for Chile that ended in 1973 with a right-wing military coup and a brutal dictatorship lasting nearly twenty years. Tanya Harmer argues that this battle was part of a dynamic inter-American Cold War struggle to determine Latin America's future, shaped more by the contest between Cuba, Chile, the United States, and Brazil than by a conflict between Moscow and Washington. Drawing on firsthand interviews and recently declassified documents from archives in North America, Europe, and South America--including Chile's Foreign Ministry Archive--Harmer provides the most comprehensive account to date of Cuban involvement in Latin America in the early 1970s, Chilean foreign relations during Allende's presidency, Brazil's support for counterrevolution in the Southern Cone, and the Nixon administration's Latin American policies. The Cold War in the Americas, Harmer reveals, is best understood as a multidimensional struggle, involving peoples and ideas from across the hemisphere.

Toward a Global History of Latin America’s Revolutionary Left

Toward a Global History of Latin America’s Revolutionary Left
Author: Tanya Harmer
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2021-04-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1683402839

This volume showcases new research on the global reach of Latin American revolutionary movements during the height of the Cold War, mapping out the region’s little-known connections with Africa, Asia, and Europe. Toward a Global History of Latin America’s Revolutionary Left offers insights into the effect of international collaboration on the identities, ideologies, strategies, and survival of organizers and groups. Featuring contributions from historians working in six different countries, this collection includes chapters on Cuba’s hosting of the 1966 Tricontinental Conference that brought revolutionary movements together; Czechoslovakian intelligence’s logistical support for revolutionaries; the Brazilian Left’s search for recognition in Cuba and China; the central role played by European publishing houses in disseminating news from Latin America; Italian support for Brazilian guerrilla insurgents; Spanish ties with Nicaragua’s revolution; and the solidarity of European networks with Guatemala’s Guerrilla Army of the Poor. Through its expansive geographical perspectives, this volume positions Latin America as a significant force on the international stage of the 1960s and 1970s. It sets a new research agenda that will guide future study on leftist movements, transnational networks, and Cold War history in the region. Contributor:s José Manuel Ágreda Portero | Van Gosse | James G. Hershberg | Gerardo Leibner | Blanca Mar León | Eduardo Rey Tristán | Arturo Taracena Arriola | Michal Zourek

Paradise in Ashes

Paradise in Ashes
Author: Beatriz Manz
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780520246751

An account of the violence and repression that defined the murderous Guatemalan civil war of the 1980s. Manz, an anthropologist, spent over two decades studying the Mayan highlands and remote rain forests of Guatemala. In a political portrait of Santa María Tzejá, where highland Maya peasants seeking land settled in the 1970s, Manz describes these villagers' plight as their isolated, lush, but deceptive paradise became one of the centers of the war convulsing the entire country. After their village was viciously sacked in 1982, desperate survivors fled into the surrounding rain forest and eventually to Mexico, and some even further, to the United States, while others stayed behind and fell into the military's hands. Manz follows their flight and eventual return to Santa María Tzejá, where they sought to rebuild their village and their lives. From publisher description.

Chile: The Other September 11

Chile: The Other September 11
Author: Ariel Dorfman
Publisher: Ocean Press
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2016-08-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0987228374

This anthology reclaims the tragic date of September 11 as the anniversary of the US-backed coup in Chile in 1973 by General Augusto Pinochet against the popularly elected Allende government. The selection combines moving personal accounts with a political/historical overview of the coup’s significance, featuring Ariel Dorfman's poignant essay, “The last September 11” and President Allende's last radio broadcast.

Postman

Postman
Author: Antonio Skarmeta
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2008-01-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780393330397

"A jewel of a story."--The New Yorker

The Tricontinental Revolution

The Tricontinental Revolution
Author: R. Joseph Parrott
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2022-01-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1316519112

A major reassessment of the rise and global impact of revolutionary Third World radicalism in the 1960s and 1970s.

Chile: The Other September 11

Chile: The Other September 11
Author: Ariel Dorfman Et Al
Publisher:
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2003
Genre: CHILE- HISTORY.
ISBN: 9788187496397

I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people.'Henry KissingerThe idea of an 'other' September 11 must seem incredible to some. But as Ariel Dorfman comments: 'During the last 28 years, September 11 has been a date of mourning, for me and millions of others.' This book reclaims that other September 11, when the Chilean armed forces, under Pinochet, ousted the democratically-elected government of President Allende in a coup. It reminds us that the horror visited upon the Chilean people on that day and for nearly two decades thereafter was a result of continuous U.S. involvement in that country. As the U.S., after its own September 11, has embarked on an ambitious and brutal imperial offensive, it is important to remind ourselves that the history of this imperialism goes back a long way, as does the history of resistance to it.

The Neruda Case

The Neruda Case
Author: Roberto Ampuero
Publisher: Souvenir Press
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2014-10-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0285642928

In 1970's Chile Pablo Neruda, the Nobel-prize winning poet, is close to death, and he senses the end of an era in Chilean politics but there is one final secret he must resolve. He recruits Cayetano Brulé, a young Cuban rogue, as his "own private Maigret" and lends Brulé the novels of Simenon as a crash course in the role of private detective. Brulé must travel across the world, through Neruda's past and the political faiths he has espoused, retracing the poet's life from Fidel Castro's Cuba to Berlin, Mexico City to Bolivia. Brulé desperately tries to fulfil Neruda's final request amid the brutal beginning of Pinochet's dictatorship while all the poet once believed in is swept away. Evocative and romantic, The Neruda Case spans lies and truth, travelling between uneasy peace and political coup, from life to death. Brulé, a daydreamer and reluctant detective, is lost among Latin America's uncertainties, venality and corruption while his first case introduces one of the great characters of international crime fiction. Among the pleasures of The Neruda Case is its provocative fictional portrait of Pablo Neruda, as the poet re-evaluates his life and begins to question abandoning those he loved for his poetry. This is the first English language translation of Roberto Ampuero's atmospheric Brulé detective novels and brings South American noir to a new audience.