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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

  • Chile
    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
    Cuba
    This collection primarily contains recordings focusing on various aspects of life in Cuba after their Communist Revolution.
  • El Salvador
    El Salvador
    This collection contains materials related to the liberation struggle in El Salvador.
  • Guatemala
    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
    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
    Nicaragua
    These materials focus primarily on the Sandanistas and their struggle for national liberation.
  • Struggles in Latin America
    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

Che Guevara in New York - Radio Rebelde - Fidel Castro Che Guevara in New York - Radio Rebelde - Fidel Castro
Date: 12/18/1963Call Number: KP 168Format: DATCollection: Cuba
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)
Discussion on Cuban Communism Discussion on Cuban Communism
Call Number: LA 156AFormat: Cass ACollection: Cuba
Raul Gomez Treto gives talk on the status of Cuban communism.
Trip to Cuba Trip to Cuba
Call Number: KP 224Format: CassetteCollection: 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.
Fidel Castro speech on Chile Fidel Castro speech on Chile
Date: 11/1/1975Call Number: KP 241Format: Cass A & BProducers: Lincoln BergmanCollection: Cuba
Most of a speech by Fidel Castro not long after Chilean coup. On Side B, before speech continues, are several statements by US airmen captured in Vietnam and a Vietnam interview with a GI who took asylum in Sweden.
Fidel Castro Interview Fidel Castro Interview
Date: 6/1/1977Call Number: KP 277Format: Cass A & BProgram: ABC NewsCollection: Cuba
In an interview conducted by Barbara Walters, Fidel Castro speaks about the CIA, different U.S. presidents, intellectual freedoms, political prisoners, US-Cuban relations, Soviet-Cuban relations, and Cuba's role in Africa. Walters also asks him several questions about his personal life.
Fidel Castro Fidel Castro
Date: 1/23/1976Call Number: KP 278BFormat: Cass BCollection: Cuba
Discussions of Fidel Castro's role in the Socialist-Cuban revolution, the U.S. Bay of Pigs invasion, the second declaration of Havana, and the solidarity with Chile and Angola.
Radio Havana Cuba Radio Havana Cuba
Date: 9/29/1973Call Number: KP 320Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Radio Havana CubaProgram: daily English broadcastCollection: Cuba
Opens with "From the Land of Music," a regular feature on English language Radio Havana Cuba. Includes translation of first half of speech by Fidel Castro on Chile and other Chile solidarity news.
Lincoln Bergman reports from Havana, Cuba Lincoln Bergman reports from Havana, Cuba
Date: 4/13/1974Call Number: KP 519Format: Cass A & BCollection: Cuba
Three programs. Side A 1. Interviews with the 7th contingent of the Venceremos Brigade, who are visiting Cuba in a solidarity trip. 2. Report about Prime Minister Pham Van Dong’s visit to Cuba. Includes translated excerpts from speeches by Van Dong and Fidel Castro. Side B 3. Report about the history of the Peronist movement in Argentina in the 1960s.
Voices from Radio Habana Cuba Voices from Radio Habana Cuba
Producers: Radio RebeldeCollection: Cuba
Sample from actual broadcast of Radio Rebelde, the clandestine station of the Cuban Revolution. The announcer introduces Fidel Castro, who calls for a general strike to defeat the Batista tyranny.
NACLA Report On The Americas NACLA Report On The Americas
Publisher: The North American Congress On Latin AmericaYear: 1997Volume Number: Vol. 31-2 September-OctoberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: NACLA
Getting Our Way: Inside Clinton's Latin American Policy. Plus Peru: Reflections of a Hostage; Chiapas: Election Day in a Conflict Zone