gautemala

Guatemala

The Guatemalan collections highlight political developments and social conditions. Several contain materials on the civil war from 1960 to 1996, including one (Burgos-Debray Papers) with extensive documentation on the life of the prominent Indian activist Rigoberta Menchú. The Jean Meadowcroft Papers are in part concerned with US educational assistance to Guatemala.

Overview

The Guatemalan collections highlight political developments and social conditions. Several contain materials on the civil war from 1960 to 1996, including one (Burgos-Debray Papers) with extensive documentation on the life of the prominent Indian activist Rigoberta Menchú. The Jean Meadowcroft Papers are in part concerned with US educational assistance to Guatemala.

Elisabeth Burgos-debray Papers

Venezuelan-French journalist

Center For Democracy Records

US private nonprofit foundation

Grupo De Apoyo Mutuo Issuances

Guatemalan organization investigating missing persons

Guatemalan Subject Collection

Miscellaneous materials

Jean Helen Meadowcroft Papers

United States Agency for International Development official

Additional Guides

Bartley, Russell Howard., and Stuart L Wagner. Latin America In Basic Historical Collections: A Working Guide. Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1972.

Chilcote, Ronald H. Revolution and Structural Change In Latin America: A Bibliography On Ideology, Development, and the Radical Left (1930-1965). Stanford: Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University, 1970.

Duignan, Peter, ed. The Library of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace. Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1985.

Palm, Charles, and Dale Reed. Guide to the Hoover Institution Archives. Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1980.

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Interviews by Elisabeth Burgos-Debray Digitized

More than seventy sound recordings of interviews by Elisabeth Burgos-Debray are available for immediate access at the Hoover Archives. Included are the interviews of Rigoberta Menchú that formed the basis of her autobiographical book, I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala (London: Verso, 1983), compiled by Elisabeth Burgos-Debray. Other interviewees had participated in guerrilla warfare in Venezuela, Guatemala, Colombia, and Peru, as well as several who were survivors of Che Guevara's rebel army in Bolivia.

October 25, 2012
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Interviews with Guatemalan Activist Rigoberta Menchú Join Burgos Collection in Hoover Institution Archives

The Hoover Institution Archives has just acquired the interviews with Rigoberta Menchú

June 19, 2001 STANFORD
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Recordings of Rigoberta Menchú, Nobel Peace Prize Recipient, Digitized by Hoover Archives

The sound recordings of Rigoberta Menchú that formed the basis of her autobiographical book, I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala (London: Verso, 1983), are digitized and available for immediate access at the Hoover Archives.

April 27, 2010
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