Chicago Cold War: Adriana Portillo-Bartow
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- Created Date
- 2012-08-11
- Description
Adriana Portillo-Bartow was born in 1953 in Guatemala City, Guatemala. Her large family became involved in the leftist resistance against the United States-backed Guatemalan government. On September 11, 1981, Portillo-Bartow’s father, her half-sister, and two of her own daughters were forcibly “disappeared” by the Guatemalan government. Following a number of subsequent threats by the government, Portillo-Bartow received aid from the American Frie...
- Creator
Portillo-Bartow, Adriana
Alter, Peter
- Contributing Institution
- Chicago History Museum
- Subjects
- Oral history (discipline)
Interviews
Cold War
Domestic violence
Violence
Dictatorships
Sanctuary Movement - Format
- Audio file: 2:25:05 minutes
- Language
- English
- Rights
- © 2017 Chicago Historical Society, all rights reserved
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- Chicago citation style
- Portillo-Bartow, Adriana, Alter, Peter. Chicago Cold War: Adriana Portillo-Bartow. 2012-08-11. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_oh/id/333. (Accessed March 29, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Portillo-Bartow, Adriana, Alter, Peter, (2012-08-11) Chicago Cold War: Adriana Portillo-Bartow. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_oh/id/333
- MLA citation style
- Portillo-Bartow, Adriana, Alter, Peter. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_oh/id/333>.