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
4 Documents Found
![Interview With Colonel Jaime Guzman](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Colonel Jaime Guzman of the El Salvadorian army, in an interview held at the School of the Americas, explains the women’s involvement in the military as social workers and their impact on society, the fight against the guerillas, the effect of Nicaragua’s change of government on El Salvador, and why Central Americans train at the School of the Americas.
![El Salvador Focus](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
El Salvador, the internal dynamics of peace negotiations are discussed, such as UN mediation, the outside support for the FMLN, Washington’s position on providing aid and women’s issues in El Salvador.
![School of the Assassins Tape 1of 2
School of the Americas, WHINSEC](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Discussion on the School of the Americas (SOA), now named the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC). Father Roy Bourgeois from School of the Americas Watch speaks about the institute, Jennifer Harberry speaks of her husband’s years of torture and murder by an SOA graduate and her hunger strike in Guatemala, Professor Noam Chomsky speaks in length of the school as well. This is tape one of two.
![Wayne Dow Amnesty International- Chiapis, Mexico
Loretta Ross CDR on "Patriots"](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Chiapis Mexico and the role of the United States.
Wayne Dow from Amnesty International interviewed by Judy Gerber of "Just Peace".
Attempt to connect Oklahoma native Americans with native people of Chiapis ,Mexico.
Music by Holly Near and Ronnie Gilbert "War of the Fleas".
Judy Gerber interview with Loretta Ross, research director from the Center for Democratic Renewal from Atlanta GA. Discussion about Oklahoma City bombing, white supremacist sentiment, media role, link to Waco, and civil liberties violations.
4 Documents Found