Stumbling among Giants

In the 1980s, Central America became the Cold War's centre stage as Western solidarity committees rushed to shine a global spotlight on the region's revolutionary movements. Drawing on archival research and activist testimony, this article explores the uncharted European solidarity movement with Guatemala (1979–1996) and its transnational structural weaknesses. Additionally, this contribution aims to revisit recent transnational approaches to solidarity movements that highlight the purposive role of actors of the Global South in generating and shaping solidarity. Instead, it argues that restricted political spaces severely constrained Guatemalan agency domestically, affecting the strategies and tactics deployed on the international front

Agency (philosophy · Cold war · Front (military · Geography · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Solidarity · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America

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