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El Salvador in Focus
Date: 11/11/1989Call Number: LA 113AFormat: Cass AProgram: El Salvador in FocusCollection: El Salvador
FMLN wages nation wide offensive. A group of young officers publish a letter condemning the military high command. President Christiani forms a commission to investigate last weeks bombings. Three opposition political activists are found assassinated. FMLN states what is needed for peaceful negotiations to occur.
El Salvador in Focus
Date: 11/18/1989Call Number: LA 114Format: CassetteProgram: El Salvador in FocusCollection: El Salvador
Fighting escalates across all 14 provinces of El Salvador. House to house fighting in San Salvador is accompanied by the bombing of neighborhoods by the El Salvador air force, Eye witnesses report numerous atrocities committed by the El Salvador military including firing on a red cross ambulance and torturing and executing 6 Jesuit priests. Some U.S. Senators speak out against U.S. financial and military support of the El Salvador government.
El Salvador in Focus
Date: 10/6/1989Call Number: LA 118AFormat: Cass AProgram: El Salvador in FocusCollection: El Salvador
Wounded FMLN combatants are evacuated to Cuba, an action seen as a diplomatic victory for FMLN and defeat for the Christiai Government. In response, the government increases repression of civilians across the country, targeting workers, peasants, and religious organizations. The FMLN ends a 10-day cease fire and launches their largest offensive to date on September 25. On October 2 Christiani addresses the United Nations General Assembly. His words contradict many of the actions his government has been taking against poor people in El Salvador.
El Salvador in Focus
Date: 10/28/1989Call Number: LA 119AFormat: Cass AProgram: El Salvador in FocusCollection: El Salvador
More allegations arise implicating the El Salvador military and their direct involvement with the Death Squads torturing, executing, and terrorizing the civilian population. Members of the military and the national police have been repeatedly identified as active in the Death Squads. A deserter from the First Infantry Brigade and former Death Squad member testifies that high ranking military officials and U.S. advisors directly support Death Squad activity. Students at the National University are targeted. Sixteen hundred refugees begin a long march home from Honduras. Refugee and repatriation leaders are captured by the El Salvador military on their way to the border and their whereabouts are unknown. In San Jose, Costa Rica, peace talks between the FMLN and the Christiani government end with no resolution.
El Salvador in Focus
Date: 9/23/1989Call Number: LA 121Format: CassetteProgram: El Salvador in FocusCollection: El Salvador
Members of the FMLN and the Christiani Government met in Mexico City. They reached an agreement to open formal negotiations in San Jose, Costa Rica in October, negotiations aimed at finding peaceful political solutions to the current conflict. This tape includes a recording of a speech delivered by an FMLN commander in Mexico City. In San Salvador, 100,000 people march in support of the peace talks. Protesters are abducted by the military on their way to the march and health workers are abducted by the national guard.
West Block (Gun Rail) Bay Side
Date: 6/2/1989Call Number: V 178Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
In this video, prison guards videotape a cellblock tier in order to determine ideal prisoner surveillance.
U.S. Out of El Salvador
Date: 11/21/1989Call Number: V 179Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
This video contains footage of demonstrators protesting the U.S. war on El Salvador by linking arms and sporadically impeding traffic at the San Francisco Federal Building. Some are arrested by SFPD.
U.S. Out of El Salvador II
Date: 11/21/1989Call Number: V 180Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Demonstrators protest at the San Francisco Federal Building against the U.S. war on El Salvador. Footage contains brief barricade of Market Street.
US Out of El Salvador III
Date: 3/20/1989Call Number: V 186Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
This video contains footage of a demonstration against the US war on El Salvador in which protestors attempt to disrupt traffic into and around the San Francisco Federal Building. The SFPD is seen using batons against demonstrators and undercover officers make violent arrests.
US Out of El Salvador V
Date: 3/20/1989Call Number: V 190Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Virtually the same as V186, this video contains footage of a demonstration against the US war in El Salvador at the Federal Building in San Francisco in which police use batons and make violent arrests.
