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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![US/Mexican Free Trade](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 8/21/1992Call Number: CV 209Format: Cass A & BProgram: En Contacto DirectoCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Forum with professors Raul Hinojosa of UCLA and Andres Jimenez of UC Berkeley about a much debated free trade agreement between the United States and Mexico. Discussion includes migration of rural workers in Mexico, the ending of the communal farm system, job creation and job loss around the border, and the "integration" economies of Mexico and the US.
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