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 ranking office 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 ...

1980 Events January * January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a United States grain embargo against the Soviet Union, grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission. * January 6 – Global Positioning Sys ...

. The party had three different presidential 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 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 Southeas ...

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

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) 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 "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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