LADI

Collections

The following collections have been contributed to LADI by a network of local and international post-custodial collaborators. Select a collection below for more information.

Archivo de Inforpress Centroamericana
Archivo de Inforpress Centroamericana

Inforpress Centroamericana was established in 1972 with the objective to analyze and present, in a professional journalistic style, economic, political, and social information of the Central American region. The news articles in this collection focus on "Violence in Guatemala" between 1978 and 1981.

Partner:Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica
Date Range:1977 - 1981
Countries:Guatemala
Genres:Newspaper Clippings, Documents, Letters
Languages:Spanish, English
Extent:
4611 objects
Archivo de la Misión de Verificación de las Naciones Unidas en Guatemala
Archivo de la Misión de Verificación de las Naciones Unidas en Guatemala

The Misión de Verificación de las Naciones Unidas en Guatemala (MINUGUA) was established as a result of the Global Agreement on Human Rights, signed by the Government of Guatemala and the Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca (URNG), on March 29, 1994 in Mexico City. The archive constitutes an important source to visualize the Guatemalan peace process.

Partner:Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica
Date Range:1994-2004
Countries:Guatemala, Mexico
Genres:Photographs
Languages:Spanish
Extent:
1433 objects
Colección Bordadoras de Memorias
Colección Bordadoras de Memorias

Embroidered textiles created by exiled Salvadoran women in shelters managed by the United Nations. Through their embroidery, the women communicated human rights violations to the world.

Partner:Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen
Date Range:1980-1989
Countries:El Salvador, Honduras
Genres:Embroidery--textiles
Languages:Spanish
Extent:
32 objects
Colección Conflicto Armado. Afiches.
Colección Conflicto Armado. Afiches.

Posters produced by insurgent groups, armed forces, and organizations in solidarity with El Salvador.

Partner:Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen
Date Range:1978 - 2006
Countries:El Salvador
Genres:Political posters
Languages:Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
Extent:
394 objects
Colección Conflicto Armado. Publicaciones.
Colección Conflicto Armado. Publicaciones.

Periodicals produced by Salvadoran insurgent groups.

Partner:Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen
Date Range:1977 - 1981
Countries:El Salvador
Genres:Books, Clippings, Documents, Magazines, Newspapers, Pamphlets
Languages:English, Spanish
Extent:
164 objects
Colección Digital del Periódico “La Información”
Colección Digital del Periódico “La Información”

La Información was a newspaper that covered the general affairs of the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua and ran from the 14th of September of 1917 until ceasing its operations in 1981. Its reporting covered mainly local, as well as national and social news, sporting affairs, and advertising from the period. The lived experience in Bluefields during those years can be seen through this publication.

Partner:BICU-CIDCA
Date Range:1920 - 1998
Countries:Nicaragua
Genres:Newspapers
Languages:English, Spanish
Extent:
892 objects
Colección Digital Fondo Real de Cholula
Colección Digital Fondo Real de Cholula

The Fondo Real de Cholula, housed in the Archives of the Judicial Branch of the State of Puebla, comprises records of legal proceedings spanning from the 16th century to the beginning of the 20th century. A careful analysis of the Fondo Real de Cholula indicates that, together with the collection protected in the General Archive of Notaries of the State of Puebla, it forms the archive of the Corregimiento de Cholula.

Partner:Archivo Judicial del Estado de Puebla
Date Range:1571 - 1834
Countries:Mexico
Genres:Acts, Announcements, Appraisals, Asset Transfer Forms, Auctions, Census, Complaints, Contracts, Executor of Estate, Debt Litigation, Deeds, Dowry Letters, Grievance Litigation, Homicides, Inventories, Leases, Legal Appeals, Letters of Sale or Purchase, Licenses, Land allotments, Financial obligations, Ordinances, Invoices, Power of Attorney Letters, Proclamations, Property Litigation, Wage loss claims, Redistributions, Requests, Statements, Theft, Wills
Languages:Spanish, Nahuatl
Extent:
708 objects
Colección Digital Libros de Hijuelas de Michoacán de Ocampo
Colección Digital Libros de Hijuelas de Michoacán de Ocampo

The Libros de Hijuelas (“deed books”) consist of 194 leather-bound volumes containing 46,045 fojas (folios). All the documents pertain to, or are precursors of, a centrally important historical process in Latin America: the privatization of Indigenous corporate property under liberal administrations, in this case in 19th-century Michoacán, Mexico.

Partner:Archivo General e Histórico del Poder Ejecutivo de Michoacán
Date Range:1713 - 1941
Genres:Mexico
Languages:Spanish
Extent:
194 objects
Colección Dinamicas Organizativas del Pueblo Negro en Colombia
Colección Dinamicas Organizativas del Pueblo Negro en Colombia

The collection contains information on the organizational activities of black communities in Colombia claiming ethnic rights over territories from the late 1980s and the early 1990s until today. The collection contains materials on the following themes: Territory and Environment, Gender and Generation, Human Rights, Ethnic Education, Ethnic Development, and Legislation.

Partner:Proceso de Comunidades Negras
Date Range:1978 - 2019
Countries:Colombia
Genres:Agendas, Books, Clippings, Magazines, Pamphlets, Photographs, Reports
Languages:Spanish
Extent:
453 objects
Quilombos do Vale do Ribeira SP/PR
Quilombos do Vale do Ribeira SP/PR

“Quilombos do Vale do Ribeira SP/PR” is an archival collection that documents the history of the founding of MOAB/EAACONE, as well as the social and political organization of quilombola communities in the Ribeira Valley over the past thirty years.

Partner:Equipe de Articulação e Assessorias às Comunidades Negras do Vale do Ribeira
Date Range:1955 - 1993
Countries:Brazil
Genres:Bulletins, Letters, Legal Documents, Books, Manuals, Notes, Reports, Meeting Minutes, Newspaper Clippings, Photographs, Publications, Statements
Languages:Portuguese
Extent:
583 objects