Latin American Solidarity Organization
The Latin American Solidarity Organization (in Spanish: Organización Latinoamericana de Solidaridad; in Portuguese: Organização Latino-Americana de Solidariedade), or simply OLAS, was an organization created in August 1967 in Cuba on the initiative of Salvador Allende (who would later go on to become president of Chile),[1] composed of several revolutionary and anti-imperialist movements in Latin America that, to a greater or lesser extent, shared the strategic proposals of the Cuban Revolution.[2][3] The organization's motto was "The duty of every revolutionary is to make the revolution".[4][5]
History
The proposal to create OLAS came about after the success of the Primera Conferencia Tricontinental de Solidaridad Revolucionaria (First Tricontinental Conference on Revolutionary Solidarity) held in January 1966, in which more than five hundred delegates from revolutionary organizations from
In its first statement, OLAS took stock of the strategies applied so far and clearly opted for armed struggle and
However, the death of Che Guevara in Bolivia, a few weeks after the conference, thwarted the organization's project to coordinate the Andean countries with the different existing guerrilla movements and create new ones, thus making it impossible to fulfill the proposed objective.In the 1970s, OLAS had become a center for the dissemination of struggles without real coordination capacity.[7][6]
See also
References
- ^ "::: Evocación de la Memoria del Pasado Reciente :::". www.pasadoreciente.com. Retrieved 2020-10-19.
- ^ Calvo, Patricia (June 25, 2018). "La Organización Latinaomericana de Solidaridad (OLAS) a través del Boletín de Información de su Comité Organizador (1966-1967)". Revista de Historia Social y de las Mentalidades. 22 (1): 155–185 – via www.revistas.usach.cl.
- ^ Villaça, Mariana (July 6, 2017). "Cuba e a esquerda uruguaia : o encontro da OLAS (Organización Latinoamericana de Solidaridad, 1967) nas páginas de Marcha" – via bibliotecadigital.tse.jus.br.
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(help) - ^ a b c d Calvo, Patricia (2018). La Organización Latinoamericana de Solidaridad (OLAS) a través del boletín de información de su comité organizador (1966-1967). Revista de Historia Social y de las Mentalidades.
- ^ La primera Conferencia de la Organización Latinoamericana de solidaridad. Unión Panamericana. 1967.
- ^ ISBN 9780692803882.
- ^ Sader, Emir (2009). «OLAS». Latinoamérica: Enciclopedia Contemporánea de América Latina y el Caribe. Madrid: AKAL Ediciones. pp. 909-910. ISBN 978-84-460-3060-7.