Latin American Social Movements

The array of images below represent some of the major historical nationalist, labour and rural movements throughout Latin America. 

Peronismo: Images below depict the leader of the nationalist movement General Juan Perón of Argentina, and a poster from Brazil promoting the movement that spead throughout Latin America.

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Cardenismo: Images below depict the leader of the nationalist movement General Lázaro Cárdenas, and a book cover of "El Cardenismo", a book on the movement by Mexican author Roberto Blanco Moheno

 

Castrismo: Images below depict its charasmatic Cuban leader Fidel Castro, and a poster from his native Cuba promoting the movement.

 

Chavismo: Images below depict Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan leader of the nationalist movement, along with an emblem for the cause.

Sandinismo: Images below depict Nicaraguan General Sandino for whom this nationalist movement was named, and a propogandic painting of the movement.

 

Paros Cívicos: A Latin American labour movement started in Colombia. Images below depict an official poster adverstising the movement, a protestors banner at a demonstartion in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and demonstartors in Honduras.

Contag: Images below depict the emblem of the movement, started in the 1980's, for the rural poor in Brasil, along with an image of its supporters.

Brazilian MST (Landless Movement): Images below depict the emblem of the rural movement for the redistribution of land, along with a massive demonstartion of its supporters in Brasil.

 

Shining Path: Images below depict a poster promoting the Maoist communist values of this rural movement from Peru, and an image of some of its violent geurilla members.

 

Zapatistas: Images below depict two women holding up the emblem of this Mexican rural movement (ELZN - Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional ), and an image of some of its geurilla fighters.