Abstract

A special resolution had the president of the Confederation of Latin American Workers (CTAL), Vicente Lombardo Toledano, travelling all around the continent in the months following the confederation’s First General Congress. The trip was planned to be between August and December of 1942 and included 12 countries; it was an opportunity to consolidate the continental unionism organized around CTAL. During the trip there were acknowledgements, workers’ renewed expectations that they would indeed achieve labour rights, as well as conflicts due to CTAL’s political, union and strategic influence. The popular workers’ unity, the opposition to “nazi-fascism” and the desire for a better future for the continent were all part of the scope of the trip.