Overview of the Jose Ovidio Puente papers

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Overview of the Jose Ovidio Puente papers

Hoover Institution Archives

Stanford University

Stanford, California

Processed by:: Hoover Institution Archives Staff
Date Completed:: 2009
Encoded by:: Machine-readable finding aid derived from MARC record by David Sun.

Collection Summary

Title: Jose Ovidio Puente papers

Dates: 1948-1993

Collection Number: 2001C110

Creator: Puente, Jose Ovidio.

Collection Size: 5 manuscript boxes (2 linear feet)

Repository: Hoover Institution Archives

Stanford, California 94305-6010

Abstract: Correspondence, writings, serial issues, clippings, photographs, and miscellany, relating to Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional guerrillas in Nicaragua. Includes writings and letters by the Sandinista leader Carlos Fonseca.

Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives

Languages: Spanish

Administrative Information

Access

Collection is open for research.

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Publication Rights

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Jose Ovidio Puente papers, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.

Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 2001.

Accruals

Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find the collection in Stanford University's online catalog Socrates at http://library.stanford.edu/webcat . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in Socrates is larger than the number of boxes listed in this finding aid.

Biographical Note

Mexican leftist activist.

Scope and Content of Collection

Correspondence, writings, serial issues, clippings, photographs, and miscellany, relating to Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional guerrillas in Nicaragua. Includes writings and letters by the Sandinista leader Carlos Fonseca Amador, widely (but incorrectly) reputed to be the founder of the FSLN in Nicaragua.

The collection also contains unpublished materials by Fonseca and several letters from Sandinista defense minister Humberto Ortega in addition to more than three hundred mostly informal photographs of leaders and other members of Mexican, Nicaraguan and other Central American leftist groups and parties between the 1960s and the 1990s. A recent increment consists of twenty-three letters written to Fonseca in 1969-70 by his wife, Maria Haydée Terán, while he was in prison in Costa Rica.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional.

Guerrillas--Nicaragua.

Fonseca Amador, Carlos.

Collection Contents

Reading room workstation

Digital copies of 270 photographic prints 1948-1993

Scope and Content Note

The only descriptive information available are the captions on the backs of the photographs. These were scanned when available, indicated as "verso" appended to the file name, and are linked to the photo image by a shared item number/file name. Most of the photographs did not have captions. The photographic prints themselves are not part of the collection.

Box: 1-5

The collection has not yet been described. Please let the Hoover Institution Archives know if you would like to see this material described. Contact us at hooverarchivesinfo@stanford.edu

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