Martín Almada Papers

Period  (1948-) 1966-1993
Total size   2 m.
Consultation Not restricted

Biography

Pseudonyms: M. Zuñiga and José de Antequera; born in Puerto Sastre, Paraguay 1937; educationalist, lawyer, syndicalist, writer; leader of the movement `Por un techo propio para cada educador paraguayo' and of the Federación de Educadores in Paraguay; founder and director of the experimental school `Juan Bautista Alberdi' in San Lorenzo, assisted by his wife Celestina Perez; took his Master's degree in education at the National University of La Plata, Argentina in 1974, but was subsequently imprisoned in Paraguay for three years after defending his thesis `Paraguay: Educación y Dependencia', in which he criticized the educational system in Paraguay; in 1975 Amnesty International adopted him as a political prisoner; due to the intervention of Amnesty released after a hunger strike; found political asylum in Panama; in 1978, in Paris, appointed UNESCO-consultant for Latin America and the Caribbean; published his autobiographical `Paraguay: La Cárcel Olvidada, El País Exiliado...' 1978, poems in `Las Manos Vacías' 1986 and `Paraguay: Educación y Proyecto Nacional' 1990; his poems have been set to music and distributed on records and cassettes.

Content

Correspondence with the World Confederation of Organizations of the Teaching Profession and the Movimiento Popular Colorado (MOPOCO), Buenos Aires, Argentina and others, mostly in photocopy 1978-1992; manuscripts of books, including `Paraguay: La Cárcel Olvidada, El País Exiliado...' and of articles and poems; files on several organizations, political parties and trade unions in Paraguay;

files on human rights 1972, 1976-1988; file on his case against Alfredo Stroessner 1991-1993; extensive documentation on the political and economical situation and the repression during the Stroessner regime in Paraguay 1966-1992.

Processing information

List made by Tiny de Boer in 1992