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 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.
En contacto directo / Art From Behind Prison Walls
Call Number: LA 032AFormat: Cass AProducers: Sylvia Mulaly AguuirreProgram: El Contacto DirectoCollection: Struggles in Latin America
Spanish and English interview with Gloria Alonzo, National Committee to Free the Puerto Rican Political Prisoners, Bill Crossman, Friends of Elizam Escobar, and Enrique Chagoya, director Galeria de la Raza, on exhibit of art by Puerto Rican political prisoners. Continues 10 minutes on Side B.
Interview with Joane Camell on Peru
Joane Camell and an unidentified radio interviewer discuss the dynamics of the Peruvian cocaine trade, the history of its prominence in the Huallaga valley, its effects on the economy of Peru and the pressure to eradicate from the American government.
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.
Viewpoints from the FMLN and Palestine Solidarity Committee
Call Number: LA 112Format: CassetteProducers: Atlanta Commitee for Latin AmericaCollection: Struggles in Latin America
Jaime Suriano of the FMLN speaks of the dynamics of rebellion and social discontent in El Salvador in Central America, the truth behind attempted reform and the reality of peace negotiations. A speaker from the Palestine Solidarity Committee explains that there is no peace in the Middle East and describes the harsh reality of the occupation and the resistance movement. Donations are taken and a question and answer session follows.
Maurice Bishop at Hunter College (Tape 1 of 2)
Part 1 of 2:
Leader of the New Jewel Movement and Prime Minister of Grenada, Maurice Bishop (1944-1983) gives a rousing speech to a fiery audience at Hunter College in New York City shortly before his US-backed overthrow and execution. Speaking on the vision of a new Grenada, Bishop emphasizes an institutional system of popular democracy that would strive to include the participation of all Grenadians especially that of women, youth, and labor-segments of the population previously subject to brutal repression under corrupt previous governments and British colonialism. Bishop also speaks on the necessity of an internationalist perspective especially when standing in solidarity with Latin American and African nations struggling against imperialism and counterinsurgency terrorism, and for self-determination.
School of the Assassins Tape 1of 2
School of the Americas, WHINSEC
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.
Call Number: LA 088Collection: Struggles in Latin America
Linda Evans on U.S politics in prison and in Central America
Interview inside prison in 1990 or 1991. Linda Evans, a long time activist and anti-imperialist, talks about her years of prison experience due to her political beliefs. Evans also speaks against the U.S imperialism in Latin America. Evans covers various topics ranging from racism, the meaning of women's liberation in anti-imperialist struggle, unfair treatment of political prisoners and poor prison conditions, prejudice against gays and lesbians inside prison and in society in general, and U.S imperialism in Latin America and the world.
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.
