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Archives at the Modern Records Centre include a large amount of material relating to Latin America, particularly with regard to human rights, trade union and labour movements, and international trade. This guide provides a general overview of some of the main sources, arranged by country. It is not a comprehensive list of all available documents - you will be able to find more material by searching our for the names of places, individuals and subjects.

Latin America and South America: general

Central America Women's Network

The Central America Women's Network (CAWN) worked in partnership with women鈥檚 organisations in Central America to support them in defending their rights. CAWN fostered links between women鈥檚 organisations in the United Kingdom and Central America and raised awareness of the concerns of Central American women amongst the public and policy makers. The includes reports, minutes, planning documents, newsletters, briefing papers, leaflets, etc., dating from 1985-2016.

Federation of British Industries

The FBI archive includes .

International Transport Workers' Federation

The ITF archive includes administrative material and publications relating to trade union organisation (particularly in the transport sector) in the region from 1939 onwards. Publications include the pamphlets , and , by Robert Alexander.

World University Service

The WUS archive includes files on specific Latin American countries and more general material relating to .

Leamington Spa Latin America Support Group

, 1983-2000.

Additional collections:

• , the "theoretical organ of the Executive Secretariat of the Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Africa, Asia and Latin America", published in Cuba. Includes articles on politics and events in Latin America.

Argentina

Amnesty International

The Amnesty International collection includes more than 100 reports, press releases and articles on human rights in Argentina between 1975 and 2011. These are included in the 'country-code' series and are individually listed in the catalogue - and .

Some Amnesty International publications will also be available .

Federation of British Industries

The FBI archive includes reports, circulars and correspondence relating to . These include a and a in the run-up to the 1951 Anglo-Argentine trade agreement.

Trades Union Congress

The TUC archive includes a series of . The main focus of the files is on the trade union and labour movement in the country, and they include correspondence with Argentinian trade unions and a set of British government reports on the labour movement and social conditions in Argentina between 1959-1969. The file covering the period between includes documents relating to conditions in the country after the 1976 coup, human rights abuses during the 'Dirty War' and protests relating to the 1978 World Cup.

The TUC's general files on South America, and , also contain material relating to Argentina, including a copy of the 1947 bill of rights of the workers proclaimed by General Juan Peron.

International Transport Workers' Federation

The ITF archive includes correspondence files and other material relating to trade union organisation in Argentina from the early 20th century onwards (the contents are in various languages, including Spanish, English, German and Dutch). The collection also includes a 1921 published by the Partido Socialista.

World University Service

The WUS archive includes (particularly with regard to persecution of university employees and students), including reports, circulars and leaflets produced by WUS and other organisations.

Additional collections

Additional documents relating to Argentina are contained in various archive collections, including:

• , included in the archives of the British Employers' Confederation
• in the archive of the British Electrotechnical and Allied Manufacturers' Association
• : article in the March 1931 edition of the magazine of the Young Women's Christian Association
• , in the archive of Dr Amicia Young
• , newspaper of the Argentinian Trotskyist party Partido Obrero, January-June 1958
• , pamphlet from a Trotskyist perspective by Peter Camejo and Nahuel Moreno
• , bulletin of the (post-coup) Argentina Support Movement

• , including a booklet produced for the 1978 World Cup by the Montonero Peronist Movement

Bolivia

Amnesty International

The Amnesty International collection includes more than 30 reports, press releases and articles on human rights in Bolivia between 1977 and 2011. These are included in the 'country-code' series and are individually listed in the catalogue - and .

Some Amnesty International publications will also be available .

Trades Union Congress

The TUC archive includes several . The main focus of the files is on the trade union and labour movement in the country, and they include correspondence with Bolivian trade unions and a set of British government reports on the labour movement and social conditions in Bolivia between 1961-1970.

World University Service

The WUS archive includes . These include a (including the Anti-Slavery Society and Contemporary Archive on Latin America) and a 1977 report on , written by a members of a delegation from the British National Union of Mineworkers.

Additional collections

Additional documents relating to Bolivia are contained in various archive collections, including:

• , included in the archives of the Federation of British Industries
• , included in the archives of Eric Hobsbawm (in English and Spanish)
• , included in the archives of Lawrence Daly. Most documents relate to Vietnam, but some refer to events in Bolivia and Czechoslovakia
• , 1980

Brazil

Amnesty International

The Amnesty International collection includes more than 120 reports, press releases and articles on human rights in Brazil between 1972 and 2011. These are included in the 'country-code' series and are individually listed in the catalogue - and .

Some Amnesty International publications will also be available .

Eric Hobsbawm

The historian Eric Hobsbawm visited Brazil on various occasions during the 1960s-1990s. His archives contain , including academic articles, press cuttings, political ephemera and notes. His collection also includes .

Federation of British Industries

The FBI archive includes . These include a , a , and a .

Trades Union Congress

The TUC archive includes a . The main focus of the files is on the trade union and labour movement in the country (including human rights abuses against trade unionists in the 1970s and 1980s). They include correspondence with Brazilian trade unions and a set of British government reports on the labour movement and social conditions in Brazil between 1960-1967.

International Transport Workers' Federation

The ITF archive includes correspondence files and other material relating to trade union organisation in Brazil from the early 20th century onwards (the contents are in various languages, including Portuguese and Spanish).

Additional collections

Additional documents relating to Brazil are contained in various archive collections, including:

• , incomplete set of a bulletin issued by the Commercial and Information Service of the Brazilian Embassy, London
• , Radical Education Project pamphlet by Andre Gunder Frank
• , report of Confederation of British Industry visit to demonstrate trade and investment opportunities in Brazil

Chile

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More than 200 documents on the Chile Solidarity movement in Britain have been digitised and are . These have been selected from the collections highlighted below.

Amnesty International

The Amnesty International collection includes more than 220 reports, press releases and articles on human rights in Chile between 1973 and 2010. These are included in the 'country-code' series and are individually listed in the catalogue - and .

Some Amnesty International publications will also be available .

Trades Union Congress

The TUC archive includes documents relating to Chile in a . The main focus of the files is on the trade union and labour movement in the country, but there is also a significant amount of material relating to the solidarity movement in Britain after the 1973 coup, and protests against human rights abuses by the Pinochet regime.

World University Service

After the 1973 coup, the World University Service (WUS) worked to support Chilean refugees in Britain. The includes administrative material relating to the Joint Working Group for Refugees from Chile in Britain and the Academics for Chile Co-ordinating Committee, reports on conditions in Chile, and campaign material relating to the Chile Solidarity movement.

Margaret Stanton

Margaret Stanton was involved with the establishment and running of the Birmingham Friends of Chilean Popular Unity / Chilean Solidarity Campaign and the Birmingham Chilean Refugees Reception Committee. Her archives include relating to national (UK) and local campaigns on Chile after the 1973 coup.

Norman Jacobs

Norman Jacobs was a trade union representative (of the Civil and Public Services Association) on the committee of the Chile Solidarity Campaign. His archive includes .

National Society of Operative Printers and Assistants

The NATSOPA collection includes . Documents include correspondence about visits to Britain by Chilean officials before and after the overthrow of the Allende Government, correspondence relating to political prisoners, and publicity material regarding protests against the post-1973 military regime.

International Transport Workers' Federation

The ITF archive includes correspondence files and other material relating to trade union organisation, etc., in Chile from the 1930s onwards (the contents are in various languages, including Spanish and English), and a file on .

Additional collections

• , included in the archives of Eric Hobsbawm
• , including 'Chronology of the main events in the battle for Chile' (1969-1973)
• , bulletin of Comite de Solidaridad con la Lucha de los Pueblos Latinoamericanos, Oct 1973
• , included in the archives of Dick Etheridge
• , a "sound documentary with music" published by Socialist Worker Recordings
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• , file in the archives of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation
• , file in the archives of William Wilson MP
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• : publications, circulars, etc., relating to the Labour Party Young Socialists campaign
• , report of 1991 National and Local Government Officers' Association delegation

Colombia

Amnesty International

The Amnesty International collection includes more than 160 reports, press releases and articles on human rights in Colombia between 1977 and 2011. These are included in the 'country-code' series and are individually listed in the catalogue - and . Amnesty International material relating to Colombian refugees in 1996-7 is also included in the .

Some Amnesty International publications will also be available .

Trades Union Congress

The TUC archive includes a series of . The main focus of the files is on the trade union and labour movement in the country, and they include correspondence and ephemera from Colombian trade unions and a set of British government reports on the labour movement and social conditions in Colombia between 1960-1967.

Eric Hobsbawm

The historian Eric Hobsbawm visited Colombia on various occasions during the 1960s-1980s, and researched and wrote on La Violencia and contemporary politics. His archives contain , including academic articles, press cuttings, political ephemera and notes. His collection also includes . Documents are in English and Spanish.

Additional collections

Additional documents relating to Colombia are contained in various archive collections, including:

• , on a farming colony established by the International Christian Committee for German Refugees
• to the United Nations Economic and Social Council International Conference on Trade and Employment, 1946
• ', 1953 article by Germ谩n Zea Hern谩ndez, published in the US magazine 'The New Leader'
• , 1955, included in a Trades Union Congress file on the Dollar Export Council
• , report included in the Federation of British Industries archive
• , included in the archives of the International Transport Workers' Federation
• , between Rodney Bickerstaffe, trade union leader, and British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook
• , Colombia Solidarity Campaign
• , bulletin of the Latin American Solidarity Collective Against US Intervention in Colombia

Cuba

Amnesty International

The Amnesty International collection includes more than 80 reports, press releases and articles on human rights in Cuba between 1965 and 2009. These are included in the 'country-code' series and are individually listed in the catalogue - and .

Some Amnesty International publications will also be available .

Trades Union Congress

The TUC archive includes , as well as documents relating to the country included in files on other subjects. The main focus of the files is on the trade union and labour movements in the country, and they include correspondence and ephemera from Cuban trade unions.

Maitland Sara Hallinan collection

This collection of radical publications includes , which contain information about the political and economic situation in Cuba from the 1930s-1970s.

International Transport Workers' Federation

The ITF archive includes correspondence files and other material relating to trade union organisation in Cuba from the early 20th century onwards (the contents are in various languages, including Spanish, German and French).

Jimmy Deane

. Most items were either written from a Trotskyist perspective or published in Cuba. The collection includes a Cuban pamphlet about the US base at Guantanamo Bay, c.1963, and several Cuban Ministry of Foreign Relations pamphlets which contain speeches by Fidel Castro, 1962.

Dick Etheridge

, including diary, notes for a speech (in Britain), photographs, travel documents, postcards, programme for visit, correspondence, text of fraternal greetings, draft article, publications (in English and Spanish) and memorabilia.

Eric Hobsbawm

The historian Eric Hobsbawm visited Cuba in the 1960s. His archives contain , including descriptive notes of his visit, c.1961, conference papers on 'La liberacion economica de Cuba' (speakers included Che Guevara), 1960, and 'Obra Revolucionaria' conference report (speakers included Fidel Castro).

Socialist Party

. Includes circulars of the Cuban Defence Committee (Nottingham branch) around the time of the Cuban missile crisis, 1963 report on visit to Cuba, two pamphlets containing speeches by Fidel Castro, and other publications.

Additional collections:

Additional documents relating to Cuba are contained in various archive collections, including:

• , including information on the trade union situation there
• , press cuttings included in the Federation of British Industries archive
• , included in the archives of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation

• , pamphlet published by Union of Democratic Control.

• , publication from the Cuban Embassy, London
• : monthly bulletin edited by the Chamber of Commerce of the Republic of Cuba
• , including articles, interviews and text of speeches about Cuba
• : correspondence, press cuttings, ephemera, etc.

Dominican Republic

Amnesty International

The Amnesty International collection includes 15 reports, press releases and articles on human rights in the Dominican Republic between 1978 and 2009. These are included in the 'country-code' series and are individually listed in the catalogue - and .

Some Amnesty International publications will also be available .

Additional collections:

Additional documents relating to the Dominican Republic are contained in various archive collections, including:

• , included in the archives of the Trades Union Congress
• , including information on the trade union situation there
• , including documents relating to the country's trade union and labour movement, and to the Trujillo dictatorship

Ecuador

Amnesty International

The Amnesty International collection includes more than 50 reports, press releases and articles on human rights in Ecuador between 1978 and 2011. These are included in the 'country-code' series and are individually listed in the catalogue - and

Some Amnesty International publications will also be available .

Trades Union Congress

The TUC archive includes a series of . The main focus of the files is on the trade union and labour movement in the country, and they include correspondence from Ecuadorian trade unions and a set of British government reports on the labour movement and social conditions in Ecuador between 1962-1968.

Additional collections

Additional documents relating to Ecuador are contained in various archive collections, including:

• , included in the archives of the International Transport Workers' Federation
• , included in the archives of Eileen Younghusband, social worker
• , report of a Confederation of British Industry delegation

El Salvador

Trades Union Congress

The TUC archive includes documents relating to El Salvador in a . The main focus of the files is on the trade union and labour movement in the country, and there is a significant amount of material relating to human rights during the 1980s.

Amnesty International

The Amnesty International collection includes more than 100 reports, press releases and articles on human rights in El Salvador between 1977 and 2008. These are included in the 'country-code' series and are individually listed in the catalogue - and .

Some Amnesty International publications will also be available .

World University Service

The WUS archive includes .

Leamington Spa Latin America Support Group

.

Additional collections

Additional documents relating to El Salvador are contained in various archive collections, including:

• , included in the archive of the Federation of British Industries
• , 2 issues of British El Salvador Solidarity Campaign newsletters

• : file from the archives of Norman Jacobs, a trade union representative on the campaign committee

• , US publications on human rights and trade union rights, included in the archives of Jimmy Barnes, trade unionist and peace activist

• , file from the archives of the National Communications Union

Guatemala

Amnesty International

The Amnesty International collection includes more than 200 reports, press releases and articles on human rights in Guatemala between 1975 and 2009. These are included in the 'country-code' series and are individually listed in the catalogue - and .

Some Amnesty International publications will also be available .

Trades Union Congress

The TUC archive includes a . The main focus of the files is on the trade union and labour movement in the country (including human rights abuses against trade unionists in the 1970s and 1980s). They include correspondence with Guatemalan trade unions and a set of British government reports on the labour movement and social conditions in Guatemala between 1960-1965.

Leamington Spa Latin America Support Group

Additional collections

Additional documents relating to Guatemala are contained in various archive collections, including:

• , in the archive of the Federation of British Industries
• , illustrated publication produced jointly by El Salvador and Guatemala Committees for Human Rights and WOW Campaigns Ltd (War on Want)
• , magazine in Spanish

Haiti

Amnesty International

The Amnesty International collection includes more than 70 reports, press releases and articles on human rights in Haiti between 1977 and 2011. These are included in the 'country-code' series and are individually listed in the catalogue - and .

Some Amnesty International publications will also be available .

Additional collections

Additional documents relating to Haiti are contained in various archive collections, including:

• , article by George Padmore in the Communist Party journal 'The Labour Monthly'
• , including documents relating to the situation in Haiti

Honduras

Amnesty International

The Amnesty International collection includes more than 40 reports, press releases and articles on human rights in Honduras between 1980 and 2010. These are included in the 'country-code' series and are individually listed in the catalogue - and .

Some Amnesty International publications will also be available .

Trades Union Congress

The TUC archive includes , as well as documents relating to the country during the 1980s included in the general files on South and Latin America. The main focus of the files is on the trade union and labour movements in the country (including human rights abuses against trade unionists during the 1980s), and they include correspondence and ephemera from Honduran trade unions.

Central America Women's Network

The CAWN archive includes .

Leamington Spa Latin America Support Group

.

Additional collections

Additional documents relating to Honduras are contained in various archive collections, including:

• , included in the archive of the Transport and General Workers' Union
• , included in the archive of the Federation of British Industries
• , included in the archive of the Federation of British Industries
• : "the independence of Belize will bring finally to Belizeans their own unique identity" (extract from People's United Party's election manifesto),1969
• : Report of an National Union of Teachers / World University Service delegation to Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador, 1987

Mexico

Amnesty International

The Amnesty International collection includes more than 110 reports, press releases and articles on human rights in Mexico between 1978 and 2011. These are included in the 'country-code' series and are individually listed in the catalogue - and .

Some Amnesty International publications will also be available .

Trades Union Congress

The TUC archive includes a . The main focus of the files is on the trade union and labour movement in the country. They include correspondence with Mexican trade unions, reports, memoranda, ephemera, and a set of British government reports on the labour movement and social conditions in Mexico between 1961-1970. The contents are in English and Spanish.

Maitland Sara Hallinan collection

This collection of radical publications includes which contain coverage of the Mexican Revolution, and later regarding the political and economic situation in Mexico.

International Transport Workers' Federation

The ITF archive includes correspondence files and other material relating to trade union organisation and activities of ITF members in Mexico from the 1920s onwards (the contents are in various languages, including Spanish, English, German and Dutch). The collection also includes copies of the .

Federation of British Industries

The FBI archive includes . These include a .

Additional collections

Additional documents relating to Mexico are contained in various archive collections, including:

• , included in the archives of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation

• , Mexican Trotskyist journal

• , included in the archives of Jimmy Deane
• , included in the archives of the British Employers' Confederation
• , included in a Trades Union Congress file on the Dollar Export Council

• , including articles and academic papers

• , publications included in a file on 'North American radicalism', in the archives of the Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs
• : file of campaign material, including bulletins, leaflets and press statement

• , political comic book on Mexican - US relations by a Mexican artist, published by the North American Congress on Latin America

Nicaragua

Trades Union Congress

The TUC archive includes documents relating to Nicaragua in a . The main focus of the files is on the trade union and labour movement in the country, and there is a significant amount of material relating to US intervention, human rights and British solidarity movements during the 1980s.

Amnesty International

The Amnesty International collection includes more than 30 reports, press releases and articles on human rights in Nicaragua between 1976 and 2011. These are included in the 'country-code' series and are individually listed in the catalogue - and .

Some Amnesty International publications will also be available .

Central America Women's Network

The CAWN archive includes reports, etc., relating to women's rights, CAWN projects and violence against women in Nicaragua, 1988-2016.

World University Service

The WUS archive includes .

Leamington Spa Latin America Support Group

.

Additional collections

• , Trotskyist journal which includes articles on Nicaragua and interviews with leading Sandinistas
• , included in the archives of the National Society of Operative Printers and Assistants
• , included in the archives of Coventry Trade Union Council
• , Spanish newspaper of Sandinista movement for free Nicaragua, 5 issues, 1982
• , from the archive of Peter Morgan, National and Local Government Officers' Association
• : Report of an National Union of Teachers / World University Service delegation to Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador, 1987

Panama

International Transport Workers' Federation

The ITF archive includes correspondence files and other material relating to trade union organisation and shipping in Panama during the 1940s-1990s, including documents relating to the use of flags of convenience.

Amnesty International

The Amnesty International collection includes 16 reports, press releases and articles on human rights in Panama between 1988 and 1996. These are included in the 'country-code' series and are .

Some Amnesty International publications will also be available .

Leamington Spa Latin America Support Group

.

Additional collections

Additional documents relating to Panama are contained in various archive collections, including:

• , included in the archives of the British Employers' Confederation
• , included in the archives of the Federation of British Industries
• , included in the archives of the Trades Union Congress

Paraguay

Amnesty International

The Amnesty International collection includes more than 50 reports, press releases and articles on human rights in Paraguay between 1966 and 2011. These are included in the 'country-code' series and are individually listed in the catalogue - and .

Some Amnesty International publications will also be available .

Trades Union Congress

The TUC archive includes a . The main focus of the files is on the trade union and labour movement in the country, and they include correspondence from Latin American trade unions and a set of British government reports on the labour movement and social conditions in the two countries between 1960-1968.

Eric Hobsbawm

The historian Eric Hobsbawm visited Paraguay during the 1970s and his archives contain . Documents are in English and Spanish.

Additional collections

Additional documents relating to Paraguay are contained in various archive collections, including:

• , included in the archives of the International Transport Workers' Federation (in Spanish)

Peru

Amnesty International

The Amnesty International collection includes more than 180 reports, press releases and articles on human rights in Argentina between 1973 and 2011. These are included in the 'country-code' series and are individually listed in the catalogue - and .

Some Amnesty International publications will also be available .

Trades Union Congress

The TUC archive includes . The main focus of the files is on the trade union and labour movement in the country, and they include correspondence from Peruvian trade unions and a set of British government reports on the labour movement and social conditions in Peru between 1959-1967.

Eric Hobsbawm

The historian Eric Hobsbawm visited Peru during the 1970s and his archives contain . Documents are in English and Spanish.

Additional collections

Additional documents relating to Peru are contained in various archive collections, including:

• , included in the archives of the International Transport Workers' Federation
• , included in the archives of the Federation of British Industries
• , Trotskyist leaflet from c.1963
• , information bulletin of Vanguardia Revolucionaria
• , report of Confederation of British Industry delegation to Peru to consider British participation in the Peruvian development programme

Uruguay

Amnesty International

The Amnesty International collection includes more than 70 reports, press releases and articles on human rights in Uruguay between 1974 and 2011. These are included in the 'country-code' series and are individually listed in the catalogue - and .

Some Amnesty International publications will also be available .

Federation of British Industries

The FBI archive includes between 1919-1964. These include a .

Trades Union Congress

The TUC archive includes a . The main focus of the files is on the trade union and labour movement in the country, and they include correspondence from Latin American trade unions and a set of British government reports on the labour movement and social conditions in the two countries between 1960-1968.

World University Service

The WUS archive includes . These include a report on .

Additional collections

Additional documents relating to Uruguay are contained in various archive collections, including:

• , pamphlet by M. Litvinov

Venezuela

Amnesty International

The Amnesty International collection includes more than 30 reports, press releases and articles on human rights in Venezuela between 1979 and 2011. These are included in the 'country-code' series and are individually listed in the catalogue - and .

Some Amnesty International publications will also be available .

Trades Union Congress

The TUC archive includes . The main focus of the files is on the trade union and labour movement in the country, and they include correspondence from Venezuelan trade unions and a set of British government reports on the labour movement and social conditions between 1959-1970. The also includes an article ('Peron is not the only dictator in South America') about Venezuela in 1952.

Federation of British Industries

The FBI archive includes , including files relating to Federation of British Industries representation in Caracas during the 1940s and 1950s.

Additional collections

Additional documents relating to Venezuela are contained in various archive collections, including:

• , pamphlet on persecution in various countries, including Venezuela, published by the International Committee for Political Prisoners
• : file of correspondence and memoranda relating to wages and conditions in Venezuela, included in the archives of the British Employers' Confederation
• , 1955, included in a Trades Union Congress file on the Dollar Export Council
• , journal of the London Committee of the Venezuelan National Liberation Front, 25 June 1964
• , including 'Revolutionary Venezuela', year 3, no.9, 15 April 1965
• , report of a Confederation of British Industry delegation

• , "Organo de Fetra-Educacionales", Caracas, Venezuela