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
![Chile 5 and 6](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
A panel of representatives from the socialist and communist parties in South America speak on various issues facing Chile after the coup d'tat in September of 1973. Speakers discuss the history of Chile's armed forces, why these armed forces provided insufficient defense during the coup, the Junta's political prisoners, and the United State's involvement in the demise of the Unidad Popular.
![Chile 7 and 8](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
A panel of representatives from the Unidad Popular on their resistance to the Fascist dictatorship that took over Chile in the coup d'etat in September of 1973. The panel discusses the Socialist Alliance as a combination of communists, socialists, workers, the Radical Party and members of the Christian Left. Speakers outline expanding the Unidad popular outside of Chile and South America, keeping the working class at the center of the movement but incorporating members of the "petty bourgeoisie" and the "middle bourgeoisie."
![Fidel Castro](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Discussions of Fidel Castro's role in the Socialist-Cuban revolution, the U.S. Bay of Pigs invasion, the second declaration of Havana, and the solidarity with Chile and Angola.
![Cuban Oil](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Discussion of the oil shortage in Cuba.
![US Socialist Conference on Mexico](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Conference for US socialist solidarity with Mexican people, with guests from Mexican Comité de Defensa Popular (CDP) of Chihuahua, and the Movimiento de Liberación Nacional (MLN). Discussion of US imperialism, “occupied Mexico” (US southwest), the failures of Mexican electoral system and government, and organizing efforts against the Mexican government.
![US Socialist Conference on Mexico](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Continuation of LA 204-tape starts 20 minutes in, side A
Conference for US socialist solidarity with Mexican people, with guests from Mexican Comité de Defensa Popular (CDP) of Chihuahua, and the Movimiento de Liberación Nacional (MLN). Discussion of US imperialism, “occupied Mexico” (US southwest), the failures of Mexican electoral system and government, and organizing efforts against the Mexican government.
![Lincoln Bergman reports from Havana, Cuba](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
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.
![NACLA Report On The Americas](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: The North American Congress On Latin AmericaYear: 2002Volume Number: Vol. 36-3 November-DecemberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: NACLA
NACLA: A 35 Year Retrospective
![NACLA Report On The Americas](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: The North American Congress On Latin AmericaYear: 1997Volume Number: Vol. 31-3 November-DecemberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: NACLA
Still Paying: Ten Years After Debt Crisis. Plus Venezuela: The Politics of Privatization; Hawaii: Stirrings in the Colony; Anniversary Essay on Socialism
![NACLAs Latin America & Empire Report](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: The North American Congress On Latin AmericaYear: 1972Volume Number: Vol.6-3 MarchFormat: PeriodicalCollection: NACLA
A New Stage in the Mexican Struggle: Interview with a Political Exile; Latin American Christians in the Liberation Struggle: Chile, Dominican Republic, Argentina; Miami Company Employing Ex-Marines or Training Members of the Haitian Forces; US Military and Police Assistance Programs.