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 The vice president of the United States (VPOTUS) is the second-highest officer in the executive branch of the U.S. federal government, after the president of the United States, and ranks first in the presidential line of succession. The vice pr ...

1980 Events January * January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission. * January 6 – Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC. * January 9 – ...

. The party had three different presidential candidates that year,

Andrew Pulley Cleve Andrew Pulley (born May 5, 1951), better known as Andrew Pulley, is an American former politician who ran as Socialist Workers Party (SWP) nominee for Vice President of the United States in 1972 and one of three nominees the party put forth ...

, Richard H. Congress and

Clifton DeBerry Clifton DeBerry (September 18, 1923 – March 24, 2006) was an American communist and two-time candidate for President of the United States of the Socialist Workers Party. He was the first black American in the 20th century to be chosen by a p ...

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 in some states in

1984 Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast A ...

; Melvin T. Mason was the presidential candidate. Zimmermann (PhD History 1998) is the Residente Director of SLC (

Sarah Lawrence College Sarah Lawrence College is a Private university, private liberal arts college in Yonkers, New York. The college models its approach to education after the Supervision system, Oxford/Cambridge system of one-on-one student-faculty tutorials. Sara ...

) 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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: Carlos Fonseca 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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