GB 3032 EH 320 PAM - Puerto Rico: Political Pamphlets

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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.
GB 3032 EH 320 PAM 1965- Collection (Fonds) 2 boxes Institute for the Study of the Americas

Puerto Rico has been dominated by the United States since its seizure from Spain in 1898. Its ambiguous status, resolved first by making it an unincorporated territory of the United States in 1917 and then by according it Commonwealth status in 1952, persists to this day. Puerto Ricans are citizens of the United States, serve in its armed forces and yet cannot vote in Presidential elections. Unsurprisingly constitutional issues feature prominently in the materials held here, with both pro-independence groups on the island and in the United States represented as well as the United Nations Commission on De-Colonization. However, there is a lack of material from those parties which have successfully won referenda to maintain the island's current status, as well as from those who campaign for Puerto Rico to become the 51st state, and probably a disproportionate quantity from the anti-American left.

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.

Institute for the Study of the Americas

Articles, factsheets, conference documents, pamphlets, bulletins, programs, reports and histories, 1965 onwards, issued by American Friends Service Committee, Asociación Cubana de las Naciones Unidas, Caribbean Labour Solidarity, Committee for Puerto Rican Decolonization, Committee for Puerto Rican Independence, Conferecia Internacional de Solaridad con la Independencia de Puerto Rico, Liga Socialista Puertorriqueña, Movimiento de Izquierda Nacional Puertorriqueño, Movimiento de Liberación Nacional (P.R.), Movimiento Ecumenico Nacional de Puerto Rico, New Movement in Solidarity with Puerto Rican Independence and Socialism, Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño, Partido Socialista Puertorriqueña, Russell Tribunal on Repression in Brazil, Chile, and Latin America, United Nations Comité de Puerto Rico, and United States Dept. of State.

Further accruals are expected, some in electronic form.

Randomly within boxes (at present).

Open for reference purposes to all researchers and postgraduate students.

Copies can usually be obtained - apply to library staff.
Spanish and English

Records at item level on library catalogue (SASCAT)

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.

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

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Created 01/02/2005 AIM25 American Friends Service Committee Asociación Cubana de las Naciones Unidas Caribbean Caribbean Labour Solidarity Collective human rights Colonial countries Committee for Puerto Rican Decolonization Committee for Puerto Rican Independence Conferecia Internacional de Solaridad con la Independencia de Puerto Rico Decolonization Foreign relations International relations Liga Socialista Puertorriquena Movimiento de Izquierda Nacional Puertorriqueno Movimiento de Liberación Nacional Movimiento Ecumenico Nacional de Puerto Rico New Movement in Solidarity with Puerto Rican Independence and Socialism North America Partido Independentista Puertorriqueno Partido Socialista Puertorriquena Political science Political systems Politics Puerto Rico Russell Tribunal on Repression in Brazil, Chile and Latin America Self determination United Nations Comité de Puerto Rico USA US Department of State

Institute for the Study of the Americas

Articles, factsheets, conference documents, pamphlets, bulletins, programs, reports and histories, 1965 onwards, issued by American Friends Service Committee, Asociación Cubana de las Naciones Unidas, Caribbean Labour Solidarity, Committee for Puerto Rican Decolonization, Committee for Puerto Rican Independence, Conferecia Internacional de Solaridad con la Independencia de Puerto Rico, Liga Socialista Puertorriqueña, Movimiento de Izquierda Nacional Puertorriqueño, Movimiento de Liberación Nacional (P.R.), Movimiento Ecumenico Nacional de Puerto Rico, New Movement in Solidarity with Puerto Rican Independence and Socialism, Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño, Partido Socialista Puertorriqueña, Russell Tribunal on Repression in Brazil, Chile, and Latin America, United Nations Comité de Puerto Rico, and United States Dept. of State.

Further accruals are expected, some in electronic form.

Randomly within boxes (at present).

Open for reference purposes to all researchers and postgraduate students.

Copies can usually be obtained - apply to library staff.

• Engels

• Latijn

Spanish and English

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.

Records at item level on library catalogue (SASCAT)

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• Engels