Matilde Zimmermann (born September 6, 1943) is an American author and professor who ran as the Socialist Workers Party candidate for United States Vice President in 1980. The party had three different

presidential President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) *President (education), a leader of a college or university * President (government title) President may also refer to: Automobiles * Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese fu ...

candidates that year, Andrew Pulley, Richard H. Congress and Clifton DeBerry depending on the state. She was at the time a writer for the party newspaper ''The Militant''.Alexander, Robert Jackson. ''International Trotskyism, 1929–1985: a documented analysis of the movement'' p 873. Zimmermann also ran as an alternate vice presidential candidate for

Andrea Gonzales Andrea is a given name which is common worldwide for both males and females, cognate to Andreas, Andrej and Andrew. Origin of the name The name derives from the Greek word ἀνήρ (''anēr''), genitive ἀνδρός (''andrós''), that re ...

in some states in 1984;

Melvin T. Mason Melvin T. Mason (born January 7, 1943) is an American politician who ran as Socialist Workers Party candidate for President of the United States in the 1984 United States presidential election. Early life Melvin T. Mason was born in Provide ...

was the presidential candidate. Zimmermann (PhD History 1998) is the Residente Director of SLC ( Sarah Lawrence College) in Cuba and is a faculty member in History and Global Studies at SLC. She has been based in Havana the last two fall semesters (2003 and 2004) as director of SLC in Cuba. Because of the U.S. restrictions on undergraduate academic programs in Cuba, Sarah Lawrence is now the only program of U.S. students at the University of Havana. She once said that the argument that Cubans were living under a dictatorship was an "American propaganda".

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* '' Sandinista:

Carlos Fonseca Carlos Fonseca Amador (23 June 1936 – 8 November 1976) was a Nicaraguan teacher, librarian and revolutionary who founded the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN). Fonseca was later killed in the mountains of the Zelaya Department, Nicar ...

and the Nicaraguan Revolution'' (Duke, 2001) * ''Carlos Fonseca y la revolución nicaragüense'' (Managua, 2003) * ''Bajo las banderas del Che y de Sandino'' (Havana, 2004) * ''A Revolução Nicaragüense'' (São Paulo, 2005) * ''Comandante Carlos: La vida de Carlos Fonseca Amador'' (Caracas, 2008)

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