Consider the Source

Table of Contents:
Preface   Introduction   Worksheet for Analyzing Primary Sources   Chapter One: Land and People Dr. Diego Alvarez Chanca, Second Voyage of Columbus, 1493 Alexander von Humboldt, Travels in South America, 1799 Gabriela Mistral, Chile, 1923 Dresden Codex, ca 1000-1200 The Poem of the Cid, ca 1200 The Constant Parrot: A Yoruba Tale, date unknown   Chapter Two: From Conquest to Empire Bernal Díaz de Castillo: A Conquistador’s View, 1568 A Nahua View of Conquest, ca 1555 The Encomienda: The Queen and her Subjects            The Queen, 1503            Melchor Verdugo, 1536            Bartolomé García, 1556            Doña Isabel de Guevara, 1556 An Indigenous Cabildo Writes to the Crown, 1554 Mahommah G. Baquaqua: Biography of a Slave, 1854    Chapter Three: Independence  Early Warning:  The Túpac Amaru Revolt            The Leader: Túpac Amaru, 1780            The Wife: Micaela Bastidas Puyucahua, 1780            The Prosecutor, 1781              The Magistrate, 1781 City Council of Caracas: On Becoming "Legally White," 1796 Rebellion in Bahia: The “Conspiracy of the Tailors,” 1798 Simón Bolívar: The Jamaica Letter, 1819   Chapter Four: New Nations Simón Bolívar: Address to the Congress of Angostura, 1819 Lord Ponsonby: Great Britain’s Interest in New Republics, 1826 Domingo F. Sarmiento: Facundo, or Civilization and Barbarism, 1845 José Hernández: El Gaucho Martín Fierro, 1872   Chapter Five: The Emergence of the Modern State Nicaragua, "I Must Insist on This Matter of Race," 1883 Clorinda Matto de Turner, Birds without a Nest, 1889 Justo Sierra, The Political Evolution of the Mexican People, 1900-1902 Manoel Sousa Pinto, "City of Mist," 1905 Alcides Arguedas, "The Sick People," 1909   Chapter Six: New Actors on an Old Stage James Monroe:  The Monroe Doctrine, 1823 Francisco Bilbao, Americain Danger, 1856 José Martí, "Our America," 1891 Sen. Orville Platt:  The Platt Amendment, 1901 Theodore Roosevelt: Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, 1904 Rio Branco: The Shift of Brazil's Diplomatic Axis, 1905 Adela Zamudio, "To Be Born a Man," 1887 Fabbri, Cari and Lopes: Anarchist Women in São Paulo, 1906 José Batlle, Workers Demands and Concerns, ca 1918   Chapter Seven: The Mexican Explosion Porfirio Diaz, Speech to Supporters, 1910 Francisco I. Madero, Plan of San Luis Potosí, 1910 Emiliano Zapata, Plan of Ayala, 1911 Venustiano Carranza et al, Plan of Guadalupe, 1913 Article 27, Constitution of 1917 Folk singers, "La Adelita"    Chapter Eight: From World Wars to Cold War José Carlos Mariátegui, The World Crisis and the Peruvian Working Class, 1923 Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, What Is the APRA?, 1926 U.S. State Department, Exploring Possibilities with Honduras and Guatemala, 1934 Juan Perón, Declaration of Workers' Rights, 1947 Raúl Prebisch, The Economic Development of Latin America and Its Principal Problems, 1950 John C. Dreier, "The Guatemalan Problem before the OAS Council," 1954 Jacobo Arbenz, Resigning the Presidency, 1954   Chapter Nine: The Revolutionary Option Fidel Castro, History Will Absolve Me, 1953 Che Guevara, Notes for the Study of the Ideology of the Cuban Revolution, 1960 Nicolás Guillén, "I Have," 1964 Leonél Rugama, "The Earth Is a Satellite of the Moon," 1969 Carlos Marighella, Mini-manual of the Urban Guerrilla, 1969 FSLN: The Historic Program, 1969 Salvador Allende: First speech to the Chilean parliament, 1970   Chapter Ten: Debt and Dictatorship Ernesto Geisel: Speech to the Brazilian Cabinet, 1974 Lola Weinschelbaum de Rubino: Remembering Raquel del Carmen, 1976 CIA: Memorandum on Torture and Disappearances in Argentina, 1978 Archbishop Oscar Romero, The Last Sermon, 1980 Ronald Reagan:  Remarks to the Conservative Political Action Conference, 1985 Reed Brody: Contra terror in Nicaragua, 1985 Carmen Naranjo:  "And We Sold the Rain," 1988 Reports on Torturers: Argentina, 1986; Brazil, 1985; Guatemala, 1999    Chapter Eleven: Forward into the Past EZLN: Sixth Declaration of the Selva Lacandona, 2005 Hugo Chávez: Speech to the World Social Forum, 2005 Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy: A New Paradigm, 2009 Latin American and Caribbean Unity Summit Declaration: A New Organization, 2010