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![Guatemala: A Curtain of Silence](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Made one year after Cerezo’s election, this tape looks at the history of oppression, torture and genocide after the 1954 Arbenz coup backed by the CIA and at the request of the United Fruit company. The program, featuring interviews, explores the genocide experienced within the indigenous race, the disappeared, the army influence and the response of the families of those killed.
![Social Justice Movement in Guatemala](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
The speaker Jorge Tabarro (sp?) encourages awareness in Guatemalan social justice movement and its effort to the outside world. The speaker also talks about the US imperialistic policy fueling the oppression of Guatemalan government against its own people. US involvement in Latin American politics has led the nation into bloody and long civil war. Even after the war has ended, the struggle for social justice and freedom for Guatemalans continues. (Contains couple minutes of Linda Evans. See 168B)
![Guatemala 1](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Jose Ortiz , a former Guatemalan guerrilla fighter, describes the civil war. He recounts the origins of the conflict from Nov 13, 1960, the history of the war which would last over thirty years, to the conclusion of the fighting in 1996.
![Jose Maria Ortiz - Guatemalan Worker's Party – Part 1](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
This recording details how Jose Maria Ortiz became involved in guerilla movements, student movements, and communist movements in Guatemala. Interview conducted in Spanish and translated to English.
Side B.
![Jose Maria Ortiz - Guatemalan Worker's Party – Part 2](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Discusses the various guerilla movements from 1960s until the death of Luis Turcios Lima. Discusses the Movimiento Revolucionario 13 de Noviembre (November 13th Revolutionary Movement, or MR-13), the Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes (Rebel Armed Forces, or FAR), and Partido Guatemalteca del Trabajo (Guatemalan Workers Party, or PGT). Also includes discussion of Turcios Lima's leadership.
Interview conducted in Spanish and translated to English.
![Jose Maria Ortiz - Guatemalan Worker's Party – Part 3](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Discusses the setbacks and challenges guerilla movements faced following the death of Turcios Lima, the decline of guerilla movements, and his analysis on what is necessary for a revolution in Guatemala. Discusses linking class struggles across Central American and Mexico.
Interview conducted in Spanish and translated to English.
![Guatemala: Dare to Struggle Dare to Win](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
![Guatemala The People Unite!](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Two statements from the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity
![We Contiune Forever Sorrow and Strength of Guatemalan Women](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Women's International Resource ExchangeDate: 11/1983Volume Number: NovemberFormat: CompilationCollection: Guatemala
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