Anti-Colonial Texts from Central American Student Movements 1929–1983

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2017
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-0368-9 (ISBN)

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Collects more than sixty foundational documents from student protest from the frontlines of revolution Few people know that student protest emerged in Latin America decades before the infamous student movements of Western Europe and the U.S. in the 1960s. Even fewer people know that Central American university students authored colonial agendas and anti-colonial critiques. In fact, Central American students were key actors in shaping ideas of nation, empire, and global exchange. Bridging a half-century of student protest from 1929 to 1983, this source reader contains more than sixty texts from Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, and Costa Rica, including editorials, speeches, manifestos, letters, and pamphlets. Available for the first time in English, these rich texts help scholars and popular audiences alike to rethink their preconceptions of student protest and revolution. The texts also illuminate key issues confronting social movements today: global capitalism, dispossession, privatization, development, and state violence. Key Features
Makes available for the first time to English-language readers a diverse archive of more than sixty foundational documents and ephemera accompanied by an introduction, section introductions and further readingExpands the geographic scope of anti-colonial movement scholarship by presenting anti-colonial thought in the most contentious decades of the 20th century from a region peripheral even within anti-colonial and postcolonial studiesAdvances anti-colonial and postcolonial studies by taking urban students as critical actors and so recasting thematics of the peasantry, the rural/urban divide, and religionSuggests a new social movement chronology beyond the so-called "Global 1968," or the common notion that student movements peaked in May 1968 in Paris, New York City, Berkeley, and Mexico City

Heather Vrana is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Florida. She is also the author of This City Belongs to You: A History of Student Activism in Guatemala, 1944-1983 (University of California Press). Her articles and reviews have appeared in the Radical History Review, Journal of Genocide Research, Ethnohistory, e-misférica, and Journal of Latin American Geography. She is co-editor of Revisiting the Guatemalan Revolution (forthcoming). Her new research is on disability in Central America.

Notes on Translations

Notes on Sources

Introduction

Further Reading

Chapter 1: Central American Modernities, 1929-1944Guatemala

‘In Complete Tyranny,’ El Estudiante (1920)

Manuel Galich, ‘The Manifesto of 1942,’ in Del pánico al ataque (1949)

AEU, Manifesto (1946)

El Salvador

Address, Dr Miguel Rafael Urquia, El Estudiante (1933)

Address, Br Reinaldo Galindo Pohl, La Universidad (1944)

Nicaragua

Excerpts, Central University of Nicaragua, Report of its Foundation (1941)

David Sánchez Sánchez, ‘The Student Body as a Political Force,’ El Universitario (1945)

Juan F. Gutiérrez, ‘Let’s Build the Fatherland,’ El Universitario (1946)

Costa Rica

‘"In Costa Rica we are proud of our freedom of thought…’ La Tribuna (1931)

Excerpts, Manuel Mora Valverde, Imperialism: Our sovereignty before the State

Department (1940)

Honduras

Jorge Fidel Durón, ‘Function of the University,’ Revista de la Universidad (1949)

Jorge St. Siegens, ‘Cooperativism in Honduras,’ Revista de la Universidad (1950)

Chapter 2: Enduring Militarism, 1952-1959

Guatemala

Committee of Guatemalan Anticommunist University Students in Exile (CEUAGE),

‘Standing up to the Red Dictatorship in Guatemala’, Boletín de CEUAGE (1953)

Committee of Anticommunist University Students (CEUA), Plan de Tegucigalpa, (1954)

‘AEU Versus Discrimination,’ Informador Estudiantil (1956)

Editorial, El Estudiante (1957)

‘Association of Law Students contesting Decree 1215 of the Republic, declares Carlos

Castillo Armas traitor to the Fatherland’ (1958)

El Salvador

AGEUS, ‘Manifesto,’ Opinión Estudiantil (1956)

AGEUS, ‘Solidarity with Nicaraguan exiles,’ Opinión Estudiantil (1956)

‘Communiqué,’ Opinión Estudiantil (1956)

Nicaragua

‘Here are the murders and their Victims,’ El Universitario (1960)

‘COSEC Receives Cablegram from SOMOZA,’ El Universitario (1960)

Honduras

‘National Constitutional Assembly of 1957,’ from Historico-Juridical Study on the

Autonomy of the National Autonomous University of Honduras (1957)

‘Organic Law of the University of Honduras,’ Legislative Decree 170 (1958)

Chapter 3: Dependency, Development, and New Roles for Student Movements, 1960-1981

Nicaragua

‘Cuba and Latin America, Yes! Yankees No!’ El Universitario (1960)

Excerpts, Student Centre of the National University (CUUN), Imperialism (1971)

Guatemala

Jaime F. Pineda S., ‘The Participation of University Students in National Life,’ Tribuna

Económica (1962)

USAC Rector Roberto Valdeavellano Pinot, ‘Communiqué’ (1974)

Excerpts, ‘International Monetary Fund, Tentacle of Capitalism,’ 7 Días en la USAC

(1980)

‘Letter from a Thief to his Neighbours’ (1976)

Costa Rica

FEUCR, ‘History signals our position,’ El Universitario (1970)

‘Why I participated in the actions on the 24th’ El Universitario (1970)

Editorial, El Universitario (1970)

Honduras

‘Joint Declaration by the Federation of Honduran University Students (FEUH) and the

General Association of Salvadoran University Students (AGEUS),’ Boletin del Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales (1974)

‘The Murders of the CIA,’ Presencia Universitaria (1976)

El Salvador

Excerpts, University High Council, Freedom and culture with regard to the debate about

the university (1964)

AGEUS, ‘On the agrarian problem,’ El Universitario (1979)

Excerpts, AGEUS, Healthcare in El Salvador, another reason for the popular struggle,

(1981)

Chapter 4: Revolution and Civil War, 1966-1981

Nicaragua

Carlos Fonseca, ‘A Message to Revolutionary Students’ (1968)

Guatemala

Editorial, No Nos Tientes (1966)

JPT, ‘Who Will Benefit from the War in Belize?’ Juventud (1977)

AEU, ‘The Guatemalan student movement in the struggle for the respect of democratic and human rights…’ (1977)

Oliverio Castañeda de León, Speech to the AEU (1978)

El Salvador

‘Declaration of the University of El Salvador’s High Council on the National Situation,’

El Universitario (1979)

Communiqué, Opinión Estudiantil (1980)

‘Guatemala: In the difficult struggle for its freedom…’ Opinión Estudiantil (1980)

José María Cuellar, ‘1932’ and ‘Wars in My Country’

‘Poetry from a heroic woman from our pueblo,’ Opinión Estudiantil (1981)

Honduras

‘Honduras – Nicaragua: Form a Solidarity Committee,’ Presencia Universitaria (1976)

Excerpts, Armando Valladares, ‘Achievements and Meaning of Our University

Autonomy’ in Universidad y Autonomía: un encuentro del presente (1978)

Chapter 5: Revolutionary Futures, 1976-1982

Costa Rica

R. Morua, ‘We the students say: "We want to build our tomorrow,’’’ El Universitario

(1970)

Honduras

Federation of Honduran University Students (FEUH), ‘Public Declaration,’ Presencia

Universitaria (1976)

Excerpts, Enrique Astorga Lira, ‘Marginal Models of Agrarian Reform in Latin America:

the Case of Honduras,’ Alcaraván (1980)

Excerpts, Editorial, El tornillo sin fin: the virile Organ of the university students of

Honduras (1981)

Guatemala

Excerpts, ‘Bulletin No. 2 of the Huelga de Dolores’ (1980)

Saúl Osorio Paz, ‘Open Letter to the University High Council’ (1980)

El Salvador

‘Salvadoran students facing imperialist intervention in El Salvador,’ Opinión Estudiantil

(1981)

AGEUS, ‘Agustín Farabundo Martí, Example of anti-imperialist struggle and of the popular war for liberation,’ Opinión Estudiantil (1982)

Nicaragua

Daisy Zamora, ‘Commander Two,’ ‘Report of the Demonstration in Front of the US

Embassy Protesting the Pino Grande Manoeuvres,’ and ‘Song of Hope,’ from Clean Slate (1993)

Jaime Wheelock, ‘The University for Economic Independence: The Militant University’

in For National Independence through Revolution: The Militant University (1983)

Conclusion

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.1.2017
Reihe/Serie	Key Texts in Anti-Colonial Thought
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	373 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Anthologien
	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-4744-0368-9 / 1474403689
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-0368-9 / 9781474403689
Zustand	Neuware