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Moncada Memorial
Date: 7/26/1986Call Number: FI 077Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude MarksProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
This is the memorial program for the 1953 attack on the Moncada Barracks in Cuba
Association of Caribbean States (ACS) speeches
Date: 8/15/1995Call Number: SS 025Format: CassetteProducers: Sue SuprianoCollection: Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
Opening ACS speeches includes Castro, recorded in Trinidad.
Speech by Jose Ponce, 1st Secretary of the Cuban Interest Section
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.
Nothing is More Precious Than
Date: 7/26/1974Call Number: NI 037Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude Marks, Nancy BarrettProgram: Nothing is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Special program to mark the anniversary of the July 26, 1953 attack on the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba, which sparked the Cuban Revolution.
Revolutionary Dissident
Interview with Enrique, a Cuban professor and translator of Portuguese and French. Enrique talks about his support for the revolution in spite of his seemingly contradictory interests in religion, British radio, and books of ill repute. Interview includes discussions about race in Cuba, Enrique's time in the military and agronomy school, which resulted in a six-month jailing.
The Last Revolutionary
Date: 7/18/1996Call Number: V 489Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Dan Rather interviews Fidel Castro about his life and the state of Cuba in the 1990s for 60 Minutes. Discussions of the Bay of Pigs victory for Cuba, as well as interviews with anti-Castro figures such as Castro's own sister.
Oye Latino!
Date: 1/1/1997Call Number: CV 282Format: Cass A & BProducers: MNF 88.5 FMCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Wrangler Jeans upsets many Puerto Ricans when they refer to the island as Indians and Creoles. The Broadway show the Cape Man focused on the life of Salvador Argon, a 16 year old Puerto Rican youth who became the youngest person sentenced death. The show had a musical score that included Ruben Blades and Marc Anthony. The history of the musicians Arsenio Rodriguez, and Javier Solis. The visit of Pope John Paul to Cuba, and the Pope’s denunciation of the US embargo on the nation. Dr. Kenya Jimenez of UC Berkley, discusses the book The Buried Mirror by Carlos Fuentes, and details the life of Juana Ibanez de la Cruz. The music of Cuban musician Ernesto Lecuona.
Lincoln Bergman reports from Havana, Cuba
Three programs.
Side A
1. Interviews with the 7th contingent of the Venceremos Brigade, who are visiting Cuba in a solidarity trip.
2. Report about Prime Minister Pham Van Dong’s visit to Cuba. Includes translated excerpts from speeches by Van Dong and Fidel Castro.
Side B
3. Report about the history of the Peronist movement in Argentina in the 1960s.
Karen Wald on Cuba
Date: 8/16/1986Call Number: FI 196Format: 1/4 1 7/8 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Emiliano EcheverriaProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Lincoln Bergman interviews Karen Wald, who has lived and worked in Cuba for many years. Covers a wide range of topics in depth, including how Cuba has changed since she was first there (1968) until the present, as well as detailed discussion on Cuban youth, Cuban aid to other countries and struggles, and Cuban prisons.
Fidel: La historia no contada (Fidel: The untold story)
Call Number: V 707Format: DVDCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
This documentary presents the story of Fidel Castro through interviews from Castro, friends, historians, and through other archives of the Cuban Revolucion.
