AHA Session 300
Conference on Latin American History 63
Conference on Latin American History 63
Sunday, January 10, 2027: 11:00 AM-12:30 PM
Napoleon Ballroom C2 (Sheraton New Orleans, 3rd Floor)
Chair:
Margaret M. Power, Illinois Institute of Technology
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Session Abstract
This session, “Transnational Approaches to Revolution and Counterrevolution in Latin America's Cold War” explores themes of exilehood, transnationalism, and revolutionary politics during the 20th and 21st centuries in Latin America. The panelists investigate a variety of regions throughout Latin America to analyze how exiles navigated revolutionary politics from a transnational perspective. Sydney Marshall examines former Sandinistas turned exiles by the Daniel Ortega regime in Nicaragua during the 21st century. Marshall argues that the Ortega administration co-opted Sandinista revolutionary politics as a means to consolidate political power and ostracise former Sandinistas. Emily Taylor explores how leftists sought refuge within Latin American embassies in the aftermath of the 1954 coup d'etat in Guatemala. Luis Herrán-Ávila investigates the transnational activism of anti-Castro exiles in the aftermath of the Cuban Revolution. Herrán-Avila’s work illustrates how anti-communist exiles participated in Cold War politics in their own, unique way. Nathan Ellstrand investigates the Sanctuary Movement in the United States in the 1980s. Focusing on the University of California, Riverside (UCR) as a case study, Ellstrand argues that students transferred the movement to sites of higher education as a method of raising awareness for exiled Central Americans. Taken together, these presentations illuminate ways in which exiles from Latin America utilized revolutionary politics in distinct ways.
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