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Institute for the Study of the Americas

Uruguay: Political Pamphlets

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 3032 R 320 PAM

Held at: Institute for the Study of the Americas

Title: Uruguay: Political Pamphlets

Date(s): 1970-

Level of description: Collection (Fonds)

Extent: 1 box

Name of creator(s): Institute for the Study of the Americas

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Much of the material in this collection is concerned with the climate of violence in Uruguay in the 1970s. Some documents the activities of the Tupamaros, a left-wing urban guerrilla movement whose role in the increasing unrest in the country provided the pretext for the effective takeover of power by the armed forces in 1973. The widespread human rights abuses that occurred in the period prior to the return to civilian government in 1984 are also covered.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Pamphlets and reports, 1970, issued by Amnesty International, Facultad Latinoamerica de Estudios Teológicosm, Movimiento de Liberación Nacional (Uruguay) and the World University Service (UK).

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: Spanish and English.

System of arrangement:

Randomly within boxes (at present)

Conditions governing access:

Open for reference purposes to all researchers and postgraduate students.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies can usually be obtained - apply to library staff.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Records at item level on library catalogue (SASCAT)

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Further accruals are expected, some in electronic form.

Archival history:

The majority of the materials held in the political archives of the Library Institute of Latin American Studies originate from the Contemporary Archive on Latin America (CALA), a documentation and research centre on Latin America which donated its holdings upon its closure in 1981. This core collection has continued to be supplemented by further donations and by materials acquired through the visits of Institute staff and their contacts to the relevant countries.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Institute for the Study of the Americas

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

See also Political Pamphlet material for the rest of Latin America, as well as related material in the library's main classified sequence, all held in the ILAS library.

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Description compiled by Daniel Millum, Political Archives Project Officer at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and the Institute for the Study of the Americas.