Struggles in Latin America
This collection contains materials from throughout Latin America. Detailed interviews, poems and accounts from the 1973 revolution and subsequent coup in Chile and the Sandinista Contra conflict in Nicaragua are featured as well as other anti-imperialist revolutionary struggles. Furthermore, one can find materials about US imperialism and intervention in the region.
Documents
School of the Assassins Tape 1of 2
School of the Americas, WHINSEC
Discussion on the School of the Americas (SOA), now named the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC). Father Roy Bourgeois from School of the Americas Watch speaks about the institute, Jennifer Harberry speaks of her husband’s years of torture and murder by an SOA graduate and her hunger strike in Guatemala, Professor Noam Chomsky speaks in length of the school as well. This is tape one of two.
Wayne Dow Amnesty International- Chiapis, Mexico
Loretta Ross CDR on "Patriots"
Chiapis Mexico and the role of the United States.
Wayne Dow from Amnesty International interviewed by Judy Gerber of "Just Peace".
Attempt to connect Oklahoma native Americans with native people of Chiapis ,Mexico.
Music by Holly Near and Ronnie Gilbert "War of the Fleas".
Judy Gerber interview with Loretta Ross, research director from the Center for Democratic Renewal from Atlanta GA. Discussion about Oklahoma City bombing, white supremacist sentiment, media role, link to Waco, and civil liberties violations.
Rita Clark - The Chant
Rita Clark interviews the co-ordinator of the Nicaragua United States Friendship Office (July 18, 1991). The Chant reports from Atlanta on the controversy of using racist images in sports (October 23,1991).
Interview with Jorge Sanjines
Call Number: LA 179Format: Cass A & BProducers: Lincoln BergmanCollection: Struggles in Latin America
Interview of well known film director from Bolivia, Jorge Sanjines, who made the famous film about US Peace Corps--Blood of the Condor. Interview by Lincoln Bergman, with English translation by Margaret Randall.
Contragate: The Secret Team (part 2)
Date: 1/1/1987Call Number: KP 383Format: Cass A & BProducers: The Other American RadioCollection: Struggles in Latin America
Daniel Sheehan of the Christic Institute speaks about US covert operations in Latin America, especially the Contra War in Nicaragua and against Cuba.
Ben Clarke & Clifton Ross on EZLN
Date: 1/1/1994Call Number: LA 186Format: Cass A & BProducers: Judy GerberProgram: KPFACollection: Struggles in Latin America
The editors of "Voice of Fire: Communiques & Interviews from the Zapatista National Liberation Army" describe their involvement with the movement and the popular support in Mexico for the Zapatistas. They discuss the international impact of the EZLN vision, the importance of global alliances and media technology, the “poetry of the communiqués,” and how EZLN politics arise from daily indigenous struggles in Chiapas.
Barbara Trent: The Making of the Panama Deception
Date: 8/9/1994Call Number: LA 188Format: Cass A & BProgram: Alternative RadioCollection: Struggles in Latin America
Barbara Trent, the writer and director of The Panama Deception, a documentary about the 1989 invasion of Panama talks about its production. Some challenges in making the movie include exclusion from press pools, interference by the US military, and a lack of funding.
Healthcare in Zonas de Control, El Salvador
Clara Mendez and translator Rene Vallez are guest speakers at a discussion in Georgia; Mendez, a nurse in the “Zonas de Control” of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMNL), discusses the challenges of providing access to health care, preventative and curative methods of care, and health education to rural communities despite government repression.
Saul Landau on US Intervention in Central America
Saul Landau is the guest speaker discussing US foreign policy in Central America. Landau discusses what he calls the "national security" state, anti-communism, and the American public opinion. Landau makes connections between the Nixon and Reagan administrations, and discusses the Arias Plan. Followed by Q&A.
US Socialist Conference on Mexico
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.
