Introduction
Evaluating a Document
Worksheet for Analyzing Primary Sources
Chapter One: Land and People
First Voyage of Columbus
Second Voyage of Columbus
Alexander von Humboldt Travels in South America
Gabriel Mistral, ”My Homeland”
Chapter Two: From Conquest to Empire
A Conquistador’s View
A Nahua View of Conquest
The Queen Approves Encomiendas
Spaniards and Encomiendas
An Indigenous Cabildo Writes to the Crown, 1554
Equiano: A Slave En Route to the New World
Chapter Three: Independence
On Túpac Amaru: The Fiscal Speaks
On Túpac Amaru: A Wife Speaks
Simón Bolívar: The Jamaica Letter
Chapter Four: Early Republics
Domingo F. Sarmiento, Civilization and Barbarism
“El Guacho Martín Fierro”
“I Must Insist on This Matter of Race”
Chapter Five: The Emergence of the Modern State
Just Sierra: In Support of Porfirio Diaz
The Darker Side of Modernization: “Rosaura”
Chapter Six: New Actors on an Old Stage
José Martí: Our America
The Platt Amendment
Anarchist Women in São Paulo
Chapter Seven: The Mexican Revolution
Madera’s Plan de San Luís Potosí
Zapata’s Plan de Ayala
“La Adelita”
Chapter Eight: World War to Cold War
Raúl Prébisch: The Periphery Versus the Center
John C. Dreier: Communism in the Americas
Pablo Neruda, “The United Fruit Company”
Chapter Nine: The Revolutionary Option
Fidel Castro, “History Will Absolve Me”
Nicolás Guillén, “I Have”
Leonél Rugama, ‘The Earth Is a Satellite of the Moon”
Chapter Ten: Debt and Dictatorship
Medellín Document on Peace: Pastoral Conclusions
Never Again: Reports on Torturers in Argentina, Brazil, and Guatemala
Chapter Eleven: Forward Into the Past
Statistics on Latin America and the United States, 2005
Hugo Chavez Speaks at the 2005 World Social Forum
José Emilio Pacheco: The Twentieth-Centurians