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
3 Documents Found
![Chile: Cantos Para La Resistencia; Pablo Neruda poetry](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Side A: Chile: Cantos Para La Resistencia (Chile: Songs for the Resistance)
Protest/political music from 1974 by the Chilean band, Karaxú and other various Chilean exiled artists from the 1973 Chilean coup d'état.
Side B: Pablo Neruda reading and commenting upon his poetry. Poems recited include “Nuevo canto de amor a Stalingrado,” “Lautaro,” “Americas,” “Oda a la Poesia,” etc. Some hissing.
![Chilean Resistance Courier: Press Conference by the Secretary General of the MIR](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Contents includean evalution on the importance of Active solidarity for the triumph of the popular resistance, the revolutionary's response to the growing instability of the dictatorship, developments in the resistance including, comments by Lumi Videla, Miguel Enriquez, Carmen Castillo, international solidarity, construction of the Revolutionary Party, call on the common soldier
![Chilean Resistance Courier: Press Conference by the Secretary General of the MIR](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Contents includean evalution on the importance of Active solidarity for the triumph of the popular resistance, the revolutionary's response to the growing instability of the dictatorship, developments in the resistance including, comments by Lumi Videla, Miguel Enriquez, Carmen Castillo, international solidarity, construction of the Revolutionary Party, call on the common soldier
3 Documents Found