Chuy Varela Collection
This collection takes its name from Jesse “Chuy” Varela, a Bay Area radio host who frequently interviewed political, activist, and labor figures connected to issues affecting Latin and Central American communities. Topics includes immigration to the US, the 1994 NAFTA treaty, labor issues such as the activism of Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, and the UFW, and related political developments affecting the region (1994 Mexican election, CA Prop 187, Sandinistas, Zapatistas, (EZLN) etc.) and others.
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![National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights - Part 4](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Maria Flores of Centro Obrero of El Paso, speaks on the lack of immigration rights and access to education. Robert Martinez of the American Friends Service Committee discusses hate crimes being committed against Mexican and Central American immigrants in border cities and southern Florida. Jorge Hinojosa on tracking immigrant abuse by the INS.
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