Latin America
This collection contains materials from Central and South America and the Caribbean. Primary topics include Cuba and the Cuban Revolution, the Sandanista revolution in Nicaragua, the Nicaragua-Contra War, the Chilean struggle for independence and US imperialism.
Subcollections
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Chile
This collection focuses primarily on the advent of the elected socialist Presidency of Salvador Allende in Chile, the 1973 fascist coup against Allende, engineered by the CIA and led by General Augusto Pinochet, and the subsequent repression of the left. -
Cuba
This collection primarily contains recordings focusing on various aspects of life in Cuba after their Communist Revolution. -
El Salvador
This collection contains materials related to the liberation struggle in El Salvador. -
Guatemala
This collection contains materials detailing the revolutionary struggles in Guatemala, the role of Guatemalan women during the revolution and the United States role in Guatemalan politics. -
NACLA
North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) is an independent non-profit organization founded in 1966 to research the political economy of the Americas and US policy towards the region. -
Nicaragua
These materials focus primarily on the Sandanistas and their struggle for national liberation. -
Struggles in Latin America
This collection contains materials from throughout Latin America. Detailed interviews, poems and accounts from the 1973 revolution in Chile, the Sandinista Contra conflict in Nicaragua, and from revolutionary forces El Salvador are all included.
Documents
En contacto directo / Art From Behind Prison Walls
Call Number: LA 032AFormat: Cass AProducers: Sylvia Mulaly AguuirreProgram: El Contacto DirectoCollection: Struggles in Latin America
Spanish and English interview with Gloria Alonzo, National Committee to Free the Puerto Rican Political Prisoners, Bill Crossman, Friends of Elizam Escobar, and Enrique Chagoya, director Galeria de la Raza, on exhibit of art by Puerto Rican political prisoners. Continues 10 minutes on Side B.
Interview with Colleta Youngers on Colombia
Colleta Youngers of the Associate Washington Office on Latin America, a nonprofit organization following issues of US Foreign Policy and human rights speaks of the political struggle and structure of the Colombian drug trade. She speaks of the main components there of: the guerillas, the traffickers and the military organizations and death squads. She addresses as well the misperceptions in the United States of who really controls the drug trade in Colombia.
Interview with Charlie Roberts
Date: 5/22/1990Call Number: LA 170AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Struggles in Latin America
Charlie Roberts of the Washington D.C.-based Colombia Human Rights Committee discusses the May 1990 Colombian presidential elections. Of particular concern are both US involvement in the country and the legitimacy of an election overshadowed by the assassinations of three presidential candidates.
CISPES Message to Salvadorans & on Autonomy Law in Atlantic Region of Nicaragua
Un-edited message from CISPES to the people about the end of the war in El Salvador and about ongoing US involvement - Spanish Translation included.
Interview about the desire of the indigenous people of the Atlantic Region of Nicaragua to obtain autonomy.
US Socialist Conference on Mexico
Continuation of LA 204-tape starts 20 minutes in, side A
Conference for US socialist solidarity with Mexican people, with guests from Mexican Comité de Defensa Popular (CDP) of Chihuahua, and the Movimiento de Liberación Nacional (MLN). Discussion of US imperialism, “occupied Mexico” (US southwest), the failures of Mexican electoral system and government, and organizing efforts against the Mexican government.
Ariel Ricardo on Cuba
Date: 4/6/1980Call Number: LA 088AFormat: Cass AProducers: Atlanta Committee on Latin AmericaProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Cuba
This brief interview with Ariel Recardo, the press attaché at the Cuban Interest Section in Washington DC, speaks about the issues surrounding the birth of TV Martì as well as the possibility of new US military aggression against Cuba.
Discussion on Cuban Communism
Raul Gomez Treto gives talk on the status of Cuban communism.
Interview with Sandy Levinson
Date: 9/1/1986Call Number: LA 183AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberProgram: Defiant HeartCollection: Cuba
The director of the Center for Cuban Studies in New York, speaks after Soviet Union Prime Minister, Mikhail Gorbachev announced the country would end assistance to Cuba. She describes the Soviet Union's "aid" as a mutual trade agreement which benefitted both countries. Also about UN Representative, Francisco Alarcon's, call for the UN to intervene in ending the 30-year economic embargo of Cuba for violating international law.
Social Justice Movement in Guatemala
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)
Juan Carlo
An interview with Juan Carlo, one of the founding members of a secretive radio station in El Salvador called the Farabundo Marti, which was created during the military government’s tyranny in the country. The radio was a way of communicating to the people the political and social events that were occurring during this time when censorship was great. The radio station was supported by the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN). Spanish responses with translations.
