Latin America 1938

Synopsis

In 1938 the fear of communist infiltration of the national labor movements spawned the creation of the multinational Confederación de Trabajadores de América Latina, or Confederation of Latin American Workers. Led by the Mexican national labor leader Vicente Lombardo Toledano, the confederation counted on the support of union organizations from 13 Latin American nations. Lombardo and the confederation led Latin American workers on a path toward nationalism and integration among the workers, a track that was untried prior to this confederation. By 1964 the organization was defunct, as it could not overcome the nationalistic tendencies of the rank-and-file members of the international union.

Timeline

• 1922: Published this year, James Joyce's novel Ulysses and T. S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land will transform literature and inaugurate the era of modernism...