History - Latin American

'...a cooperative digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean. dLOC provides access to digitized versions of Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials currently held in archives, libraries, and private collections.'

Declassified documents from the CIA's Freedom of Information (FOIA) electronic reading room.

"Documents on Cuban's international relations, focusing on it's relationship with the Soviet Union, China and the United States. See also the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Cuba and Southern Africa collections.

'Full text of English translations of speeches, interviews, and press conferences by Fidel Castro, based upon the records of the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS)...'

'...digital manuscripts, photographs, letters, maps and other resources held in the University of Miami Libraries Cuban Heritage Collection.'

Includes historical photographs, prints, drawings, pamphlets, manuscripts, books, rare maps and more. Includes a collection on the slave trade.

Documents in these files illuminate the Dominican Republic's relations with the U.S. for the period 1945-1959.

Part of World Scholar: Latin America & the Caribbean. 'These records are the declassified diplomatic correspondence between the U.S. State Department and the embassies and consulates within the country...The collection deals with the end of the Trujillo dictatorship (1961), including the breaking of diplomatic relations in 1960. Includes discussion of Trujillo's repression and the aftermath of the Trujillo regime...'

This collection documents the turbulent period that includes 1950 coup by General Paul Magloire, the 1957 elections in which Francois Duvalier (Papa Doc) was first elected on a populist platform and the beginnings of the creation of the Duvalier dynasty (1957-1986).

U.S. Library of Congress digital collection.  'The collection comprises 11 monographs scanned from printed copies and 39 political pamphlets and 2 monographs and a journal scanned from microfilm.' 'All pamphlets are in Spanish. Four of the books are in English and the rest in Spanish.'

'Executive branch serial documents issued by Brazil's national government during the period between 1821 and 1993, and by its provincial governments from the earliest available for each province to the end of the Empire in 1889.' Includes Provincial Presidential Reports; Presidential Messages; Almanak Laemmert, Ministerial Reports. Also a Statistical Subject Guide.

From the Library of Congress, it 'explores the history of Brazil, interactions between Brazil and the United States from the eighteenth century to the present, and the parallels and contrasts between Brazilian and American culture and history.'

This collection comprises a portion of the State Department's Central Files relating to U.S.-Brazilian relations between 1945 and 1959.

Documents from various U.S. Executive branch departments and agencies released by the U.S. National Declassification Center.

Declassified documents . Part of the Digital National Security Archive.

Davis Family Library Microfilm # 679 and # 680 (106 reels + index).