SOUTH AMERICA'S TRANSNATIONAL SOLIDARITY WITH SOUTHERN AFRICA CHILEAN AND ARGENTINE EXILES AS COOPERATORS IN MOZAMBIQUE, 1976-1986

After declaring the country's independence from Portugal in June 1975, the Mozambique Liberation Front focused its efforts on building a modern nationstate and implementing a development strategy to pave the way for a socialist society. The initial lack of cadres for building and managing a postcolonial national state and the new state economy led it to request the international cooperation and solidarity of the Global Left. The aim of this paper is to analyze the notions and practices of international solidarity among leftist Chilean and Argentine exiles who assumed the role of professional-technical cooperators in independent Mozambique between 1976 and 1986. The working method is based on a qualitative analysis of the information obtained from oral sources, documents of the period, and specialist literature. KEYWORDS: international solidarity; cooperation;South American exiles; Mozambique
INTRODUCTION In the international context of the Cold War during the 1970s and 1980s, those fleeing from the wave of repression in the countries of the Southern Cone of Latin [...]