The Latin American Cold War

Founded in 1985 by journalists and scholars to check rising government secrecy, the National Security Archive combines a unique range of functions: investigative journalism center, research institute on international affairs, library and archive of declassified U.S. documents. Resources in English and other languages.

Formerly Top Secret Records Shed Light on True History of Canal Negotiations

Here you can view documents released through the FOIA and other CIA release programs.

COINTELPRO The FBI began COINTELPRO—short for Counterintelligence Program—in 1956 to disrupt the activities of the Communist Party of the United States. In the 1960s, it was expanded to include a number of other domestic groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan, the Socialist Workers Party, and the Black Panther Party. All COINTELPRO operations were ended in 1971.

Resources in English, French and Spanish. The Freedom Archives is a non-profit educational archive located in Berkeley dedicated to the preservation and dissemination of historical audio, video and print materials documenting progressive movements and culture from the 1960s to the 1990s.

(Mexican, Spanish Language) Archivos de la Represión is a civil society project aimed at promoting the right to truth and the memory of Mexico’s period of repression and systematic violence by the state between 1950 and 1980.

Archives from the National Library of Chile, resources in Spanish.

Resources in Portuguese from Brazil

Resources in English and Portuguese. Project organized by Brown University and the Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Paraná, Brazil. Includes tens of thousands of declassified documents in the U.S. government archives related to Brazil from 1960 to 1980.

A vast collection of Latin American Resource links curated by Yale's library.

Human Rights Web Archive is an effort to preserve and ensure access to freely available human rights resources created mainly by non-governmental organizations, national human rights institutions, and individuals.

Scarce and unique pamphlets, primarily from Chile, Cuba, Bolivia and Mexico, published during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

The Fundación de Antropología Forense de Guatemala (FAFG) has collected more than 500 video interviews from Guatemalan survivors and witnesses in Guatemala. All conducted in Spanish or K’iche’, the testimonies are being preserved and indexed by USC Shoah Foundation, which began adding them to the Visual History Archive in 2016. Currently there are 32 testimonies searchable in the Visual History Archive.

Explore a repository of free online resources for Latin American, Caribbean, Latinx, and Iberian studies.

A database of listings that provide links to open access digitized collections of primary sources that relate to Latin America and the Caribbean. Currently, the listings may be searched by country, genre/format, hosting institution, and collection title.