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Jose Maria Ortiz - Guatemalan Worker's Party – Part 1
This recording details how Jose Maria Ortiz became involved in guerilla movements, student movements, and communist movements in Guatemala. Interview conducted in Spanish and translated to English.
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Jose Maria Ortiz - Guatemalan Worker's Party – Part 2
Discusses the various guerilla movements from 1960s until the death of Luis Turcios Lima. Discusses the Movimiento Revolucionario 13 de Noviembre (November 13th Revolutionary Movement, or MR-13), the Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes (Rebel Armed Forces, or FAR), and Partido Guatemalteca del Trabajo (Guatemalan Workers Party, or PGT). Also includes discussion of Turcios Lima's leadership.
Interview conducted in Spanish and translated to English.
Jose Maria Ortiz - Guatemalan Worker's Party – Part 3
Discusses the setbacks and challenges guerilla movements faced following the death of Turcios Lima, the decline of guerilla movements, and his analysis on what is necessary for a revolution in Guatemala. Discusses linking class struggles across Central American and Mexico.
Interview conducted in Spanish and translated to English.
Songs from SUTAUR 100 1989 Strike (Mexico City)
Music and songs from the 1989 strike by SUTAUR 100, a bus drivers union in Mexico City, Mexico.
Silvio Rodríguez Domínguez
Music and songs by Silvio Rodríguez Domínguez, a Cuban folk singer who writes about love and revolutionary politics.
Vamos Haciendo Historia, Pancasan - Nicaraguan music
Music from the second LP by the Nicaraguan group Pancansan who formed part of the Frente Estudiantil Revolucionario and were supporters of the FSLN (Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional). Songs about revolution, anti-imperialism and resistance.
Venezuela: Revolution From The Inside Out (2008)
Call Number: V 651Format: DVDCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Director Clifton Ross toes his camera with him through Venezuela on bus and car trips to discover the back workings of the Bolivian Revolution. Through interviews and lasting images Ross takes the audience through the country to show the ability of a people to unite amidst a struggle.
Che
Date: 5/21/2008Call Number: V 657Format: DVDCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Che is a two-part 2008 biopic about Ernesto "Che" Guevara directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Benicio del Toro. Part One is entitled The Argentine and focuses on the Cuban revolution from the landing of Fidel Castro, Guevara, and other revolutionaries on Cuba to their successful toppling of the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista two years later. Part Two is entitled Guerrilla and focuses on Guevara's attempt to bring revolution to Bolivia and his death.
Turmoil - Venezuela's political violence, economic sabotage and oil
Date: 1/1/2012Call Number: V 665Format: DVDCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Explores the centrality of how oil has affected both the political situation and foreign relations between the US and Venezuela. Also how the progressive changes are met with opposition from the wealthy elites and US government.
Ciudad en Rojo
Date: 1/1/2008Call Number: V 666Format: DVDProducers: Rebeca ChavezCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
How violence escalates in the calm life of various persons and social groups in a city and forever changes not only daily lives but also the relationship between parents and children, between friends, lovers and even the most hidden and intimate feelings of the people and their dreams. This reflection is not abstract, but stems from very specific stories of a group of characters, mainly young. These are stories full of truth not only inspired by the pages of José Soler Puig’s novel Bertillón 166, but by the very history of Santiago de Cuba towards the end of the ‘50s. They are fiction stories which nevertheless bear witness of a historic moment in which the entire city was covered with blood.
