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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

Lincoln Bergman Interview with Mexican F.R.A.P. members Lincoln Bergman Interview with Mexican F.R.A.P. members
Call Number: KP 075Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsCollection: Struggles in Latin America
Lincoln Bergman interviews two FRAP (Fuerzas Revolucionarias Armadas del Pueblo) members, Francisco Pizarro and Pablo Martinez, on the details of their organization and the bank robberies and hostages held in exchange for political prisoners in 1972. The interviewees discuss the student movement as well.
Call Number: LA 088Collection: Struggles in Latin America
Wayne Dow Amnesty International- Chiapis, Mexico
Loretta Ross CDR on "Patriots" Wayne Dow Amnesty International- Chiapis, Mexico Loretta Ross CDR on "Patriots"
Call Number: LA 177Format: Cass A & BCollection: Struggles in Latin America
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.
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.
Ben Clarke & Clifton Ross on EZLN Ben Clarke & Clifton Ross on EZLN
Date: 1/1/1994Call Number: LA 186Format: Cass A & BProducers: Judy GerberProgram: KPFACollection: Struggles in Latin America
The editors of "Voice of Fire: Communiques & Interviews from the Zapatista National Liberation Army" describe their involvement with the movement and the popular support in Mexico for the Zapatistas. They discuss the international impact of the EZLN vision, the importance of global alliances and media technology, the “poetry of the communiqués,” and how EZLN politics arise from daily indigenous struggles in Chiapas.
US Socialist Conference on Mexico US Socialist Conference on Mexico
Date: 5/21/1983Call Number: LA 204Format: Cass A & BCollection: Struggles in Latin America
Conference for US socialist solidarity with Mexican people, with guests from Mexican Comité de Defensa Popular (CDP) of Chihuahua, and the Movimiento de Liberación Nacional (MLN). Discussion of US imperialism, “occupied Mexico” (US southwest), the failures of Mexican electoral system and government, and organizing efforts against the Mexican government.
US Socialist Conference on Mexico US Socialist Conference on Mexico
Date: 5/21/1983Call Number: LA 205AFormat: Cass ACollection: Struggles in Latin America
Continuation of LA 204-tape starts 20 minutes in, side A Conference for US socialist solidarity with Mexican people, with guests from Mexican Comité de Defensa Popular (CDP) of Chihuahua, and the Movimiento de Liberación Nacional (MLN). Discussion of US imperialism, “occupied Mexico” (US southwest), the failures of Mexican electoral system and government, and organizing efforts against the Mexican government.
Songs from SUTAUR 100 1989 Strike (Mexico City) Songs from SUTAUR 100 1989 Strike (Mexico City)
Call Number: LA 209Format: Cass A & BCollection: Struggles in Latin America
Music and songs from the 1989 strike by SUTAUR 100, a bus drivers union in Mexico City, Mexico.