Human rights and transnational solidarity in Cold War Latin America / edited by Jessica Stites Mor.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-284) and index.

The Puerto Rican nationalists party, transnational Latin American Solidarity, and the United States during the Cold War / Margaret Power -- Latin America encounters Nelson Rockefeller: imagining the Gringo patrón in 1969 / Ernesto Capello -- The Mexican student movement of 1968: national protest movements in international and transnational contexts / Sara Katherine Sanders -- Cosmopolitans and revolutionaries: competing visions of transnationalism during the boom in Latin America / Russell Cobb -- Transnational concepts, local contexts: solidarity at the grassroots in Pinochet's Chile / Alison J. Bruey -- Cuba's concept of "internationalist solidarity": political discourse, south-south cooperation with Angola, and the molding of transnational identities / Christine Hatzky -- "As the world is my witness": transnational Chilean solidarity and popular culture / Brenda Elsey -- The politics of refuge: Salvadoran refugees and international aid in Honduras / Molly Todd -- Desire and revolution: socialists and the Brazilian gay liberation movement in the 1970s / James N. Green.

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"With the end of the global Cold War, the struggle for human rights has emerged as one of the most controversial forces of change in Latin America. Many observers seek the foundations of that movement in notions of rights and models of democratic institutions that originated in the global North. Challenging that view, this volume argues that Latin American community organizers, intellectuals, novelists, priests, students, artists, urban pobladores, refugees, migrants, and common people have contributed significantly to new visions of political community and participatory democracy. These local actors built an alternative transnational solidarity from below with significant participation of the socially excluded and activists in the global South. Edited by Jessica Stites Mor, this book offers fine-grained case studies that show how Latin America's re-emerging Left transformed the struggles against dictatorship and repression of the Cold War into the language of anti-colonialism, socioeconomic rights, and identity"--Provided by publisher.

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