Struggles in Latin America
This collection contains materials from throughout Latin America. Detailed interviews, poems and accounts from the 1973 revolution and subsequent coup in Chile and the Sandinista Contra conflict in Nicaragua are featured as well as other anti-imperialist revolutionary struggles. Furthermore, one can find materials about US imperialism and intervention in the region.
Documents
Interview with Colleta Youngers on Colombia
Colleta Youngers of the Associate Washington Office on Latin America, a nonprofit organization following issues of US Foreign Policy and human rights speaks of the political struggle and structure of the Colombian drug trade. She speaks of the main components there of: the guerillas, the traffickers and the military organizations and death squads. She addresses as well the misperceptions in the United States of who really controls the drug trade in Colombia.
Interview with Charlie Roberts
Date: 5/22/1990Call Number: LA 170AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Struggles in Latin America
Charlie Roberts of the Washington D.C.-based Colombia Human Rights Committee discusses the May 1990 Colombian presidential elections. Of particular concern are both US involvement in the country and the legitimacy of an election overshadowed by the assassinations of three presidential candidates.
Women in Panama
An account of devastating unemployment situation in Panama. A female leader of women's trade union in Panama speaks out about Panama, Panama Canal, Panama's economy and its relationship with United States and her views on anti-imperialism. She also speaks about the workers' right to bear arms for self defense. She emphasizes on Panamanian women workers' rights and their importance in their families as breadwinners.
Wayne Dow Amnesty International- Chiapis, Mexico
Loretta Ross CDR on "Patriots"
Chiapis Mexico and the role of the United States.
Wayne Dow from Amnesty International interviewed by Judy Gerber of "Just Peace".
Attempt to connect Oklahoma native Americans with native people of Chiapis ,Mexico.
Music by Holly Near and Ronnie Gilbert "War of the Fleas".
Judy Gerber interview with Loretta Ross, research director from the Center for Democratic Renewal from Atlanta GA. Discussion about Oklahoma City bombing, white supremacist sentiment, media role, link to Waco, and civil liberties violations.
Latin American Report: Repression in Brazil
Date: 5/25/1971Call Number: KP 043Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Hal LevinProgram: Latin American ReportCollection: Struggles in Latin America
Fred Goff of NACLA on repression in Brazil.
Rita Clark - The Chant
Rita Clark interviews the co-ordinator of the Nicaragua United States Friendship Office (July 18, 1991). The Chant reports from Atlanta on the controversy of using racist images in sports (October 23,1991).
Interview with Jorge Sanjines
Call Number: LA 179Format: Cass A & BProducers: Lincoln BergmanCollection: Struggles in Latin America
Interview of well known film director from Bolivia, Jorge Sanjines, who made the famous film about US Peace Corps--Blood of the Condor. Interview by Lincoln Bergman, with English translation by Margaret Randall.
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
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.
Contragate: The Secret Team (part 2)
Date: 1/1/1987Call Number: KP 383Format: Cass A & BProducers: The Other American RadioCollection: Struggles in Latin America
Daniel Sheehan of the Christic Institute speaks about US covert operations in Latin America, especially the Contra War in Nicaragua and against Cuba.
