Human Rights and Transnational Solidarity in Cold War Latin America

Contents

v i i Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Situating Transnational Solidarity within Critical Human Rights Studies of Cold War Latin America 3 Jessica Stites Mor Part I. Critical Precursors to Transnational Solidarity 1. The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, Transnational Latin American Solidarity, and the United States during the Cold War 21 Margaret Power 2. Latin America Encounters Nelson Rockefeller: Imagining the Gringo Patrón in 1969 48 Ernesto Capello 3. The Mexican Student Movement of 1968: National Protest Movements in International and Transnational Contexts 74 Sara Katherine Sanders Part II. Solidarity in Action 4. Cosmopolitans and Revolutionaries: Competing Visions of Transnationalism during the Boom in Latin America 101 Russell Cobb 5. Transnational Concepts, Local Contexts: Solidarity at the Grassroots in Pinochet’s Chile 120 Alison J. Bruey Contents v i i i C o n t e n t s 6. Cuba’s Concept of “Internationalist Solidarity”: Political Discourse, South-South Cooperation with Angola, and the Molding of Transnational Identities 143 Christine Hatzky Part III. The Influence of Transnational Solidarity on Postnational Responsibilities 7. “As the World Is My Witness”: Transnational Chilean Solidarity and Popular Culture 177 Brenda Elsey 8. The Politics of Refuge: Salvadoran Refugees and International Aid in Honduras 209 Molly Todd Epilogue 9. Desire and Revolution: Socialists and the Brazilian Gay Liberation Movement in the 1970s 239 James N. Green Selected Bibliography 269 Contributors 285 Index 287 ...