Latin America
This collection contains materials from Central and South America and the Caribbean. Primary topics include Cuba and the Cuban Revolution, the Sandanista revolution in Nicaragua, the Nicaragua-Contra War, the Chilean struggle for independence and US imperialism.
Subcollections
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Chile
This collection focuses primarily on the advent of the elected socialist Presidency of Salvador Allende in Chile, the 1973 fascist coup against Allende, engineered by the CIA and led by General Augusto Pinochet, and the subsequent repression of the left. -
Cuba
This collection primarily contains recordings focusing on various aspects of life in Cuba after their Communist Revolution. -
El Salvador
This collection contains materials related to the liberation struggle in El Salvador. -
Guatemala
This collection contains materials detailing the revolutionary struggles in Guatemala, the role of Guatemalan women during the revolution and the United States role in Guatemalan politics. -
NACLA
North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) is an independent non-profit organization founded in 1966 to research the political economy of the Americas and US policy towards the region. -
Nicaragua
These materials focus primarily on the Sandanistas and their struggle for national liberation. -
Struggles in Latin America
This collection contains materials from throughout Latin America. Detailed interviews, poems and accounts from the 1973 revolution in Chile, the Sandinista Contra conflict in Nicaragua, and from revolutionary forces El Salvador are all included.
Documents
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![El Savador in Focus; Program of Atlantic Committee on Latin America](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 10/21/1989Call Number: LA 086Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberProgram: El Savador in FocusCollection: El Salvador
Radio Farbundio Marti - Samuel Adams and Penelope Jones - News
- Negotiations between the FMLN and Christiani Government, call for a cease fire to end government repression. Negotiations ended with agreement to meet again.
Arnold Ramos (statement) FMLN FDR, need for international pressure, definitive end to govt. repression.
-Ten students from the National University are captured by security forces. Wave of repression against universities, send telegrams demanding their release.
Oct. 13 Gov. denies accusations by former soldier and death squad member of death squad activity.
National Union of Salvadorian workers released list of officials who participated in death squads.
Program of Atlantic Committee on Latin America, Host Judy Garber Discussion on Nicaragua and El Salvador. Announcing a protest on Mon. Nov. 6,1989 to denounce the bombing of legal civilian organizations in El Salvador and recent Contras attacks in Nicaragua.
Salvadorian Government attacked so called “Front Groups” including Mothers of the disappeared. UNTS responded with a letter stating that the general had fulfilled a promise to kill workers and that the workers were now at war with the government.
Sandinista Government has a cease fire with Contras yet they continue to come in to the country on the premise that they are registering to vote.
1 Documents Found