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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![Hearts of Fire](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 10/10/1987Call Number: CV 283AFormat: Cass AProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
The movie, set in Grant County New Mexico, is to debut and be the first movie directed and produced by Mexican American women. Ed Asner and Tony Onaya comment on the film production, feeling that movies such as this one and others such as La Bamba will pave the way for Latinos in Hollywood.
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