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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Date: 3/30/1992Call Number: CV 223AFormat: Cass AProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
The Executive Director of the Latino Issues Forum speaks about voting power and consumer power in the Latino community. Also about economic and political inequalities that misrepresent Latinos as non-voting, powerless, or disinterested in their political lives.
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