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
Coup in Chile
Date: 10/6/1973Call Number: LA 003Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln BergmanProgram: Radio HavanaCollection: Chile
Report from Lincoln Bergman at Radio Havana about the coup in Chile and the murder of Victor Jara, death of Salvador Allende
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.
Cuban women
A native Cuban woman visits the United States and discusses the state of the women in Cuba in 1989, 30 years after the communist revolution. She speaks of the improvement of women in the job market and in politics. However she also expresses concern that the women's servant-like role in the house has not changed. Topics such as divorce and abortion in Cuba are also raised. The woman has a translator.
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.
Maurice Bishop at Hunter College - Part 2
Date: 1/1/1983Call Number: KP 141Format: CassetteProducers: KPFACollection: Struggles in Latin America
Leader of the New Jewel Movement and Prime Minister of Grenada, Maurice Bishop (1944-1983) continues his rousing speech to a fiery audience at Hunter College in New York City shortly before his US-backed overthrow and execution. Bishop addresses Grenada's relationship with Cuba and pays special attention to the construction of the Grenadian International Airport and the disinformation campaign promulgated by the U.S. surrounding Grenadian-Cuban solidarity. This section of the speech take on an eerie air as it was the construction of this airport and Grenada's relationship with Cuba that was used as pretext for the US invasion of the island, resulting in the murder of Bishop.
Che Guevara in New York - Radio Rebelde - Fidel Castro
Che Guevara in New York City 12/18/1963
Radio Rebelde (in Spanish) broadcast by radio Havana, Cuba in 1971 - towards the end is the first victory message by Fidel Castro over Radio Rebelde
A speech by Fidel Castro (date unknown)
Cuba’s new Family Law
Lincoln Bergman on fighting machismo and sexism in Cuba and the new Cuban Family Law
Commentary about the International Human Rights Tribunal on US war crimes in Vietnam and the struggle for Blacks in the US. Appeal to Black GIs encouraging them to refuse to fight in the Vietnam War.
US POW statements from captivity in Vietnam.
Andreas Gomez-U.S. Policy in Cuba
Journalist Andreas Gomez gives a lecture on the Cuban revolution and U.S. Policy in Cuba. Gomez opposes U.S. Policy in Cuba and speaks about the imprisonment of 35,000 Cuban prisoners arrested and held at Guantanamo while trying to go the United States. Through his personal experiences in Cuba he recalls the state of the country from 1993 to 1995, and the progress that has been made by the revolution in that time period.
Gomez's lecture straddles traditional political bounds. He describes life in Cuba at this time as against the grain of a socialist society, of Cuban beliefs and of the national consensus. He does however discuss how these factors are necessary in order to rehabilitate Cuba. He explains that the U.S. plans not to infiltrate but use other means that will have long term negative effects, and that the U.S. retaliation has no relevance to what is actually going on in Cuba.
The overall perspective of the lecture is one that strongly opposes the U.S. destruction of the Cuban Revolution, but also that Cuba is in a state that is not optimal but to support the Cubans so they can get what they need done to change their country in a positive way.
Chile 3 and 4
A panel of representatives from the Socialist and Communist parties in South America speak on various issues facing Chile after the coup d'etat in September of 1973. Topics discussed include: Chile's natural resources, boycotting imports from countries supporting the military Junta, United States support of Pinochet's fascist repression of the Unidad Popular, information of disappeared people and the National Liberation Movement's fight to regain socialist momentum. Speakers reflect on the effectiveness of Allende's Socialist party's dedication to equality for women, and the failures of the party's armed forces.
Trip to Cuba
An anonymous man and woman visiting Cuba. It's an account of each day there and the how everything has changed since the revolution put in place a communist government.
