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El Savador in Focus; Program of Atlantic Committee on Latin America
Date: 10/21/1989Call Number: LA 086Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberProgram: El Savador in FocusCollection: El Salvador
Radio Farbundio Marti - Samuel Adams and Penelope Jones - News
- Negotiations between the FMLN and Christiani Government, call for a cease fire to end government repression. Negotiations ended with agreement to meet again.
Arnold Ramos (statement) FMLN FDR, need for international pressure, definitive end to govt. repression.
-Ten students from the National University are captured by security forces. Wave of repression against universities, send telegrams demanding their release.
Oct. 13 Gov. denies accusations by former soldier and death squad member of death squad activity.
National Union of Salvadorian workers released list of officials who participated in death squads.
Program of Atlantic Committee on Latin America, Host Judy Garber Discussion on Nicaragua and El Salvador. Announcing a protest on Mon. Nov. 6,1989 to denounce the bombing of legal civilian organizations in El Salvador and recent Contras attacks in Nicaragua.
Salvadorian Government attacked so called “Front Groups” including Mothers of the disappeared. UNTS responded with a letter stating that the general had fulfilled a promise to kill workers and that the workers were now at war with the government.
Sandinista Government has a cease fire with Contras yet they continue to come in to the country on the premise that they are registering to vote.
El Salvador in Focus
Date: 10/14/1989Call Number: LA 091Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberProgram: El Salvador in FocusCollection: El Salvador
News from radio Farbundio Marti with Samuel Adams and Penelope Jones. Archbishop denounces Christiani Government., Salvadorian Mothers occupy Costa Rican embassy, Congress debates El Salvador, FLMN commander Lenal Gonzales comments on Current dialogue with Christiani Government.
Pinochet assemblea
Date: 11/1/1989Call Number: CD 266Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Pinochet addresses a group of people in Spanish about the liberty of the press in Chile as well as the difference in the conditions of the country from Allende’s time to the, then, present time.
Pinochet assemblea
Pinochet addresses a group of people in Spanish about the liberty of the press in Chile as well as the difference in the conditions of the country from Allende’s time to the, then, present time.
El Salvador In Focus
Date: 10/5/1989Call Number: LA 103Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberProgram: Radio El FarbeCollection: El Salvador
Salvadorian defense minister rejects Talia accord. No Negotiations between the Christiani Government and the FLMN. National UNTS union of workers demands negotiations based on human rights violations.
El Salvador in Focus
Date: 12/30/1989Call Number: LA 105Format: CassetteProducers: Sam AdamsProgram: Radio El FarbeCollection: El Salvador
FLMN offensive continues. Arnaldo Ramos interview. Recent accord signed by president. Role of the international community.
El Salvador in Focus
Date: 12/2/1989Call Number: LA 106Format: CassetteProducers: Sam Adams, Penelope Jones, Judy GerberProgram: Radio El FarbeCollection: El Salvador
United Nations passes resolution on situation in El Salvador. Americas Watch accuses the Bush Administration of defending the indefensible. A North American citizen is tortured by a national guard with a US embassy official present. FLMN expressed willingness for an internationally supervised cease fire.
El Salvador in Focus
Date: 11/4/1989Call Number: LA 110Format: CassetteProgram: El Salvador in FocusCollection: El Salvador
On October 31, 1989 a bomb explodes in the National Federation of Salvadoran workers (FINASTRAS) headquarters killing 12 people. The military had recently named human rights organizations and labor unions as front groups for the FMLN. The labor unions hold the military responsible for the bombing. Earlier the same morning a bomb exploded in the building of the Mothers of the Disappeared and Assassinated. The Salvadoran Government, with the aid of U.S. tax dollars, is violently and openly targeting dissenters. This tape also contains exerts of an interview with Robert Dabuson, Arena Party President for Life. Dabuson was named in an unpublished U.S. embassy report as the mastermind behind the assassination of Archbishop Oscer Romero in 1980. Also, 1600 refugees are allowed to return from Honduras to their native villages in El Salvador.
El Salvador In Focus
Date: 11/25/1989Call Number: LA 109Format: CassetteProgram: El Salvador In FocusCollection: El Salvador
Fighting intensified last week, forces launch second wave National Political military offensive. Christiani Government claims victory. FMLN targets major military institutions, wealthiest neighborhoods. Major FMLN military offensive in the province of San Miguel. FMLN forces occupied Sheraton Hotel. Salvadorian Legislature passes Penal reform code that outlaws possession and distribution of subversive material, prohibits nonviolent protest and outlaws subversive organizations.
El Salvador in Focus
Date: 10/1/1989Call Number: LA 111Format: CassetteProgram: El Salvador in FocusCollection: El Salvador
Arena Government escalates repression targeting civilians as well as the FMLN. Aerial bombings and ground troop attacks on villages increase in frequency and severity. The FMLN lift their voluntary cease fire in response to the government and military violence. On September 18 the National trade Union of Salvadoran Workers (FINASTRAS) held a protest march in San Salvador demanding the release of union organizers in government custody. Police attacked the protesters with tear gas and beatings. Those arrested reported being tortured. Eight women reported being raped by the police in jail. Meanwhile, In Washington D.C. The U.S. Senate votes overwhelmingly to increase military aid to El Salvador.
