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.
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![Interview with Colleta Youngers on Colombia](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
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.
![School of the Assassins Tape 1of 2
School of the Americas, WHINSEC](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Discussion on the School of the Americas (SOA), now named the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC). Father Roy Bourgeois from School of the Americas Watch speaks about the institute, Jennifer Harberry speaks of her husband’s years of torture and murder by an SOA graduate and her hunger strike in Guatemala, Professor Noam Chomsky speaks in length of the school as well. This is tape one of two.
![Barbara Trent: The Making of the Panama Deception](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 8/9/1994Call Number: LA 188Format: Cass A & BProgram: Alternative RadioCollection: Struggles in Latin America
Barbara Trent, the writer and director of The Panama Deception, a documentary about the 1989 invasion of Panama talks about its production. Some challenges in making the movie include exclusion from press pools, interference by the US military, and a lack of funding.
![John Stockwell Speaks at Berkeley](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
John Stockwell speaks at Berkeley about the CIA and the results of various programs and covert operations he was involved with during his time with the Agency and Bush's involvement with the CIA as Director.
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