Search Help

How does this work?
There are many ways to search the collections of the Freedom Archives. Below is a brief guide that will help you conduct effective searches. Note, anytime you search for anything in the Freedom Archives, the first results that appear will be our digitized items. Information for items that have yet to be scanned or yet to be digitized can still be viewed, but only by clicking on the show link that will display the hidden (non-digitized) items. If you are interested in accessing these non-digitized materials, please email info@freedomarchives.org.
Exploring the Collections without the Search Bar
Under the heading Browse By Collection, you’ll notice most of the Freedom Archives’ major collections. These collections have an image as well as a short description of what you’ll find in that collection. Click on that image to instantly explore that specific collection.
Basic Searching
You can always type what you’re looking for into the search bar. Certain searches may generate hundreds of results, so sometimes it will help to use quotation marks to help narrow down your results. For instance, searching for the phrase Black Liberation will generate all of our holdings that contain the words Black and Liberation, while searching for “Black Liberation” (in quotation marks) will only generate our records that have those two words next to each other.
Advanced Searching
The Freedom Archives search site also understands Boolean search logic. Click on this link for a brief tutorial on how to use Boolean search logic. Our search function also understands “fuzzy searches.” Fuzzy searches utilize the (*) and will find matches even when users misspell words or enter in only partial words for the search. For example, searching for liber* will produce results for liberation/liberate/liberates/etc.
Keyword Searches
You’ll notice that under the heading KEYWORDS, there are a number of words, phrases or names that describe content. Sometimes these are also called “tags.” Clicking on these words is essentially the same as conducting a basic search.

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Mexico: People's Revolutionary Armed Forces Mexico: People's Revolutionary Armed Forces
Date: 2/2/1974Call Number: KP 306Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Margaret Randall (translator)Collection: Struggles in Latin America
Interview with two members of the FRAP of Mexico who had just been released from prison and liberated to Cuba in 1973, in exchange for the US consul who had been kidnapped in Mexico.
Interview and Poetry on Peru Interview and Poetry on Peru
Call Number: KP 310Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln BergmanCollection: Struggles in Latin America
Interview with Margaret Randall about her time in Peru, includes analysis and poetry.
Puerto Rico Superport: Rest of the News Puerto Rico Superport: Rest of the News
Date: 10/7/1974Call Number: KP 314Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: rest of the newsCollection: Puerto Rico
Report on plans for building a super port in Puerto Rico, includes discussion of UNB decolonization resolution, mass sterilization of Puerto Rican women, US control of Puerto Rican government.
State of Siege in Chile, 1984 State of Siege in Chile, 1984
Call Number: CV 068BFormat: Cass BProducers: Press, Information Committee of Casa ChileCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
About the events of the fall of 1984 in Chile. Recounts the sequence of mass protests and strikes by labor and leftist organizations that led to state terror and a "state of siege" by the Pinochet regime.
Radio Havana Cuba Radio Havana Cuba
Date: 9/14/1973Call Number: RH 319Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Radio Havana, Emiliano EcheverriaProgram: English broadcastCollection: African liberation movements
This is the Engloish language news and feature broadcast, as taped in the United States. Emphasis on fascist coup in Chile, solidarity with Chilean resistance, Vietnam. Opens with historic summary relating to Cuban revolution.
Radio Havana Cuba Radio Havana Cuba
Date: 9/29/1973Call Number: KP 320Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Radio Havana CubaProgram: daily English broadcastCollection: Cuba
Opens with "From the Land of Music," a regular feature on English language Radio Havana Cuba. Includes translation of first half of speech by Fidel Castro on Chile and other Chile solidarity news.
Oscar Arias Speech Oscar Arias Speech
Date: 4/12/1994Call Number: CV 088Format: CassetteProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Nobel prize winner and former Costa Rican President speaks about overcoming poverty, peace not war, investment in social progress, not military, building a better world.
NAFTA Debate NAFTA Debate
Call Number: CV 089Format: CassetteProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Raul Hinojosa, UCLA professor, and others discussing NAFTA and its impact.
Dr. Carlos Tablada Interview Dr. Carlos Tablada Interview
Date: 4/21/1990Call Number: CV 103AFormat: Cass AProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Chuy Varela interviews Dr. Carlos Tablada, the Cuban economist and author, about the state of Cuba following the breakdown of the Soviet Union. Tablada responds to charges and assumptions common in North America about the freedom and success of the Cuban revolution. Tablada highlights the economic growth in techonological, industrial and health sectors as successes of the revolution and dismisses Cuban-American propaganda from Miami. Interview in Spanish only, Side B is music section of the show.
The Latin American left The Latin American left
Date: 10/25/1993Call Number: CV 090Format: CassetteProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Interview with Jorge Castenada, analysis of Latin American left/populist movements, social conditions, nd negative impact of North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)