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![Speech by Jose Ponce, 1st Secretary of the Cuban Interest Section](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 10/21/1994Call Number: JG/ 089AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Jose Ponce, 1st Secretary of the Cuban Interest Section in the U.S. (the only formal forum of Cuba/U.S. diplomatic contact) speaks at Emory University, GA, October 5, 1994. Ponce summarizes the history of Cuba following the Spanish-American War. He glorifies the achievements of the Cuban communist system: full literacy, power, free education, universal healthcare, antiracism efforts, advances for women, Cuban aide to needy foreign countries. He decries U.S. attempts to sabotage Cuba, specifically the trade embargo which has cost $40 billion dollars, restrictions on remittances, travel bans, and assassination attempts. He argues that the embargo and subsequent loss of infrastructure gave Cuba with no other choice but to ally itself with COMECON and copy the Soviet model. He explains how the 1989 USSR collapse and subsequent loss of 85% of its national trade greatly diminished the Cuban standard of living. He discounts the Cuban pro-democracy protests because he argues Cuba is already a democracy with a rich grassroots political life and elected parliament, just not a multiparty system. He discusses how Cuba is currently debating the first tax in its post-revolutionary history to help revive the declining economic infrastructure.
![Cuba: Nueva Trova](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1975Call Number: Vin 037Producers: Discos Pueblo, Silvio Rodriguez, Pablo MilanesCollection: General materials
Songs from the Nueva Trova, a movement in Cuban music characterized by an emergence of a new political and social consciousness following the Cuban revolution. Silvio Rodriquez and Pablo Milanes founded the Nueva Trova, encouraging introspection and expression about the social struggles of the Cuban people in the 1960s and 70s.
![Canta Cuba Libre (Songs of Free Cuba)](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1972Call Number: Vin 045Producers: I Dischi Dello Zodiaco, Canzoniere InternazionaleCollection: General materials
Protest songs in solidarity with revolutionary Cuba by the 1970s Italian pop group, Canzoniere Internazionale. Although the album concentrates on Cuba, there are also topical songs about other social movements, namely the struggle of the Viet Cong. Includes liner notes in Italian.
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