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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![Colombian Flower Workers](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 4/15/1993Call Number: CV 095AFormat: Cass AProducers: Chuy VarelaProgram: Noticiero LatinoCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Silbina Torres, a Colombian flower worker, talks about the unsafe working conditions and poverty-level income in the flower industry.
![Nelson Fajardo - Colombia](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
About human rights abuses in Colombia funded by the US war on drugs and counterinsurgency programs. Right wing paramilitary groups are also discussed. Interview in Spanish.
![Special on US Role in Colombia](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 3/18/1993Call Number: CV 182AFormat: Cass AProducers: Mario MurilloCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Mario Murillo discusses the violence after the "state of internal emergency" was announced in Colombia in late 1992. He interviews Colombian and US politicians and military spokespeople about the increase of US military bases for the ostensible purpose of training and supporting the Colombian effort in the 'War on Drugs.' The US military presence is challenged. Side B is audio of Mexican comedian Cantinflas.
![Pedro Alcantara](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Pedro Alcantara of the Patriotic Union political party speaks about the unstable political situation in Colombia. He addresses large-scale violence to organized labor, massacres by drug cartels, government military, and right-wing paramilitary groups. Also the penetration of drug cartels to the elite and how the instability and corruption at the national level allies with US intervention.
4 Documents Found