Latin America
This collection contains materials from Central and South America and the Caribbean. Primary topics include Cuba and the Cuban Revolution, the Sandanista revolution in Nicaragua, the Nicaragua-Contra War, the Chilean struggle for independence and US imperialism.
Subcollections
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Chile
This collection focuses primarily on the advent of the elected socialist Presidency of Salvador Allende in Chile, the 1973 fascist coup against Allende, engineered by the CIA and led by General Augusto Pinochet, and the subsequent repression of the left. -
Cuba
This collection primarily contains recordings focusing on various aspects of life in Cuba after their Communist Revolution. -
El Salvador
This collection contains materials related to the liberation struggle in El Salvador. -
Guatemala
This collection contains materials detailing the revolutionary struggles in Guatemala, the role of Guatemalan women during the revolution and the United States role in Guatemalan politics. -
NACLA
North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) is an independent non-profit organization founded in 1966 to research the political economy of the Americas and US policy towards the region. -
Nicaragua
These materials focus primarily on the Sandanistas and their struggle for national liberation. -
Struggles in Latin America
This collection contains materials from throughout Latin America. Detailed interviews, poems and accounts from the 1973 revolution in Chile, the Sandinista Contra conflict in Nicaragua, and from revolutionary forces El Salvador are all included.
Documents
3 Documents Found
![Social Justice Movement in Guatemala](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
The speaker Jorge Tabarro (sp?) encourages awareness in Guatemalan social justice movement and its effort to the outside world. The speaker also talks about the US imperialistic policy fueling the oppression of Guatemalan government against its own people. US involvement in Latin American politics has led the nation into bloody and long civil war. Even after the war has ended, the struggle for social justice and freedom for Guatemalans continues. (Contains couple minutes of Linda Evans. See 168B)
![Rita Clark - The Chant](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
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).
![Healthcare in Zonas de Control, El Salvador](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Clara Mendez and translator Rene Vallez are guest speakers at a discussion in Georgia; Mendez, a nurse in the “Zonas de Control” of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMNL), discusses the challenges of providing access to health care, preventative and curative methods of care, and health education to rural communities despite government repression.
3 Documents Found