Register of the José Ovidio Puente papers
Finding aid prepared by David Jacobs
Hoover Institution Library and Archives
© 2012
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Stanford University
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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
Access
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.
Use
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2001.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Jose Ovidio Puente papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Biographical Note
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Of special note within the collection are a number of unpublished writings by Carlos Fonseca Amador, one of the original founders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
box 1, folder 3
Hernandez, Graciela "Chelita"
1973-1980
box 1, folder 7
Rivas de Torres, Marta
1982
box 1, folder 9
Torres Rivas, Myrna E.
1977
Other correspondence (neither to nor from José Ovidio Puente)
1960-1979
box 1, folder 13
Maria Cristina (surname unknown)
1970-1971
box 1, folder 14
Maria L. (surname unknown)
1970-1971
box 1, folder 15
Marina (surname unknown)
1970
box 1, folder 17
Guerrero Santiago, Noel
1962
box 1, folder 18
Martínez O., Eulogio
1964
box 1, folder 19
O'Cerda, Daniel Simeon
1973
box 1, folder 23
Solis Arce, Miriam de
1963
Carlos Fonseca Amador file
1964-1975
box 1, folder 25
Cards from medical laboratory
1965
box 1, folder 27
Letter from Lupe Salinas
1971
box 1, folder 28
"Ensayo sobre la situacíon economica y política nacionales"
undated
box 1, folder 29
"Mensaje al pueblo de Nicaragua desde las carceles de la aviación a la juventud"
1964
box 1, folder 31
History of Nicaragua
1970
box 1, folder 32
"Programa Sandinista"
1970
box 1, folder 33
"Nicaragua, la lucha es contra cuarenta años de tiranía"
1975
Writings by others
1928-1975
box 1, folder 35
Godoy Gutiérrez, Virgilio
1975
box 1, folder 36
Mena Solózarno, Luís
1944
box 2, folder 1
Pavletich, Esteban
1928-1975
box 2, folder 4
Communiqué and leaflet
1975
box 2, folder 6
Escobar Pérez, José Benito
1964
box 2, folder 7
Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional
1964-1968
box 2, folder 11
Fragments of interviews
1978
box 2, folder 12
List of conference participants
1979
box 2, folder 13
List of Sandinista militants
1965
box 2, folder 14
Mathematical calculations
1965
box 2, folder 19
Carlos Fonseca Amador
1958
box 2, folder 20
Heriberto Rodríguez Marín
1963-1964
Digital scans of photographs returned to José Ovidio Puente
1948-2010
Access
Digital use copies are available in the reading room.
DVD discs containing digital scans
1948-1993
box 2, folder 43
CD-Rom containing reference images
1948-1993
