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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.
Side B.
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.
Silvio Rodríguez Domínguez
Music and songs by Silvio Rodríguez Domínguez, a Cuban folk singer who writes about love and revolutionary politics.
Chile: Cantos Para La Resistencia; Pablo Neruda poetry
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.
Cuba and Fidel
Call Number: V 678Format: DVDCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Recorded in 1974, filmmaker Saul Landau documents a tour of urban and rural sections of Cuba by Fidel Castro. Topics discussed include class domination, the Cuban Revolution and democracy.
Hagase la Luz (Let There Be Light)/ Desafio (Challenge)
Call Number: V 689Format: DVDCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
This film contains two documentaries. One discusses the health field in Cuba, specifically Operacion Milagro. In the second film, the main focus is the political and economic changes in Cuba following the Fall of the Soviet Union and the US embargo.
Karen Wald on Cuba 1
Date: 8/5/1986Call Number: FI 255Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Emiliano EcheverriaProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Interview with Karen Wald, who has lived and worked in Cuba. She discusses how she thinks Cuba has changed, problems, possible plans for invasion of Cuba. In-depth discussion of health care system and her response to charges that Cuba tortures political prisoners, the Armando Valladares case, juvenile delinquency, and prison conditions in general.
Karen Wald on Cuba 2
Date: 8/5/1986Call Number: FI 256Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Emiliano EcheverriaProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Interview, before final editing, with Karen Wald, who has lived and worked in Cuba. She discusses how she thinks Cuba has changed, problems, possible plans for invasion of Cuba. In-depth discussion of health care system and her response to charges that Cuba tortures political prisoners, the Armando Valladares case, juvenile delinquency, and prison conditions in general.
The August 29th Movement
Date: 8/8/1975Call Number: FI 261Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Portion of a speech by a representative of the August 29th Movement. a Chicano Marxist-Leninist organization, at an "Anti-Revisionism Forum." Emphasis on "party building"." Question and answer period includes challenges from audience related to other left organizations, especially the Revolutionary Union and the October League.
