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Title: José Ovidio Puente papers
Date (inclusive): 1928-2010
Collection Number: 2001C110
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
Spanish; Castilian
Physical Description:
3 manuscript boxes
(1.2 Linear Feet)
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.
Creator:
Puente, Jose Ovidio
Creator:
Fonseca Amador, Carlos
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2001.
[Identification of item], Jose Ovidio Puente papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Mexican leftist activist.
Scope and Content of Collection
The José Ovidio Puente papers contain materials that largely relate to Nicaragua and, in particular, to the Sandinista movement
that overthrew the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza in 1979. Through his association with a number of Sandinista activists,
Ovidio Puente came into possession of documents pertaining to the guerrilla war waged by the Sandinistas against Somoza.
Of special note within the collection are a number of unpublished writings by Carlos Fonseca Amador, one of the original founders
of the Frente Sandinista de Liberación (FSLN). Among these is the manuscript of a general history of Nicaragua written while
the author was a political prisoner. The collection also includes correspondence and a large number of scanned photographs.
In addition to Ovidio Puente's own correspondence, the collection contains a separate series of correspondence among other
individuals. There are also some additional writings, including a lengthy manuscript by Virgilio Godoy Gutiérrez on the 1920s
guerrilla movement of Augusto Sandino, a revolutionary from whom the FSLN drew inspiration as well as its name.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Guerrillas -- Nicaragua
Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional