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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![Mexican Election and Beyond (Part 1)](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
A panel of academic and political representatives from the United States and Mexico exchange ideas, stimulate discussion and debate the 1994 Mexican election. Includes the electoral results and issues of political legitimacy, building a modern, competitive and open political party system, racism, injustice, human rights violations, NAFTA, indigenous uprising, declining education rate, increasing unemployment rate and more.
![Mexico Elections and Beyond (Part 2)](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Part 2 continues the panel's discussion on the outcome of the 1994 election in Mexico. Bilingual
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