History
Latin America
Documents
- Requerimiento (1513)
- Hernán Cortés: Second Letter to Charles V (1520)
- Hernando Pizarro: Letter to the Royal Audience of Santo Domingo (ca. 1533)
- Pope Paul III: Sublimus dei (1537)
- New Laws of the Indies (1542)
- Bartolomé de las Casas: A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies (1552)
- Lope de Aguirre: Letter to King Philip of Spain (1561)
- Bernal Díaz: The True History of the Conquest of New Spain (ca. 1576)
- Antônio Vieira: “Children of God’s Fire” (ca. 1660)
- Juana Inés de la Cruz: “The Poet’s Answer to Sor Filotea De La Cruz” (1691)
- Simón Bolívar: Cartagena Manifesto (1812)
- Declaration of the Independence of the United Provinces of South America (1816)
- Treaty of Córdoba (1821)
- Agustín de Iturbide and Vicente Guerrero: Plan of Iguala (1821)
- Domingo Sarmiento: Life in the Argentine Republic in the Days of the Tyrants (1845)
- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
- Gadsden Purchase Treaty (1853)
- Maria Eugenia Echenique: “The Emancipation of Women” (1876)
- Treaty of Limits between Mexico and Guatemala (1882)
- Joaquim Nabuco: “We Are Seeking Our Country’s Highest Interests” (1883)
- Panama Canal Treaty (1903)
- Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (1904)
- Rubén Darío: “To Roosevelt” (1904)
- Francisco Madero: Plan of San Luis Potosí (1910)
- Emiliano Zapata: Plan of Ayala (1911)
- Francisco Garcia Calderón: Latin America: Its Rise and Progress (1913)
- Constitution of Mexico (1917)
- José Carlos Mariátegui: History of the World Crisis (1924)
- Lázaro Cárdenas: Speech to the Nation on the Nationalization of Mexican Oil (1938)
- Juan Perón: “Twenty Fundamental Truths of Justicialism” (1950)
- Fidel Castro: History Will Absolve Me (1953)
- Che Guevara: “Guerrilla Warfare: A Method” (1963)
- Che Guevara: Address to the United Nations General Assembly (1964)
- Medellín Conference Statements on Peace and Justice (1968)
- Carlos Marighella: Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla (1969)
- Salvador Allende: First Annual Message to the National Congress (1971)
- Óscar Romero: Last Sermon (1980)
- Gabriel García Márquez: “The Solitude of Latin America” (1982)
- Chico Mendes: “The Destruction of Our Rain Forest” (1988)
- Óscar Arias: “Thoughts on Peace” (1997)
- Hugo Chávez: Speech at the Opening of the Twelfth G-15 Summit (2004)
