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![Interview with Paul Fitch](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Paul Finch, a former Co-Administrator from the Lutheran church in El Salvador, talks about his experience during the war in El Salvador in the 1970s. Finch worked for the children who were displaced after the war, organizing activities for children who were in their shelter with his wife. The Church had open doors for whoever needed help, even when the Army of El Salvador began to settle in the church. He mentions how in the beginning of the war, the Guerillas and the Salvadorian Army used different tactics to attack one another, some more drastic than others. Citizens and anyone who were against the Salvadorian government were being tortured to death. He also discusses how he managed to get out of jail before being killed.
![Judy Gerber's Report on El Salvador](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 3/29/1992Call Number: JG/ 112Format: Cass A & BProducers: Judy GerberProgram: slide show presentationCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Audio recording of a slide show presentation. Gerber describes the country two months after the Feb. 1st cease-fire, particularly in terms of women's conditions and rights. Issues of health care, land ownership, sexual and domestic abuse, single female heads of households, illiteracy, and women-as-property are addressed amid discussion of El Salvador's path to reconstruction.
![Assassination of Herbert Ernesto Anaya Sanabria](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 10/26/1987Call Number: CV 012AFormat: Cass AProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
At a press conference held on October 26, 1987 Kate Bancroft and Carolina Castaneda answer questions concerning the recent assassination of Herbert Ernesto Anaya Sanabria. Bancroft summarizes Sanabria's efforts to end human rights violations in El Salvador, while both women discuss the corruption of the El Salvadorian government. During the conference a video is shown, created by Sanabria, disclosing testimonies given by prisoners in La Esperanza of tortures they've received.
![Henry Cisneros Speech](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 5/2/1990Call Number: CV 018Format: CassetteProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Henry Cisneros delivers a speech on the merging of Latin and American culture for immigrant populations and how that merging will prepare people for positions of leadership. *Note: This tape contains only part 2 of speech.
!["Noticiero Ahora" El Salvador elections](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: CV 062Format: Cass A & BProducers: KPFAProgram: Noticiero AhoraCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Chuy Varela interviews El Salvador elections observers Lynn Haug and Elaine Ellinson in 1994. They discuss the transition from civil war to the electoral process, and continued instances of voter fraud and intimidation. Verela also interviews UCLA professor Raul Hinojosa about the upcoming elections in Mexico and the assasination of Luis Donaldo Colosio. Much of the tape is an R&B mix.
![New Voices: Health care and unions in El Salvador](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Patrick Esmond White and Rosetta Robinson host public radio news program. One segment of interest addresses the lack of health care and unions in El Salvador.
![Musica De El Salvador En Lucha 1980-1986](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Tape of revolutionary music from El Salvador during the civil war. Music sung in Spanish.
![The Crisis In El Salvador](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Jacqueline Bradley and Andre Herrera of the Central American Refugee Committee in Santa Cruz about the continued Civil War in El Salvador and the extreme poverty and unemployment as a result of the war. Increased protests for peace and jobs by Salvodoran workers, violently suppressed by the military.The catastrophic effect of deported refugees on the already starved economy where military jobs are the only ones available.
![El Salvador Solidarity](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 5/12/1994Call Number: CV 114Format: CassetteProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Discusses plans for trade and solidarity activities.
![Veterans from El Salvador](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 12/10/1993Call Number: CV 176AFormat: Cass AProducers: Chuy VarelaProgram: KPFACollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Discuss their experiences in the conflict and their hope to return to their country to help those who were injured and maimed during the war.