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
Last interview with Archbishop Oscar Romero
Date: 3/22/1980Call Number: LA 029Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: John Clemente, Arnaldo RamosCollection: Struggles in Latin America
The last interview done with Archbishop Oscar Romero, recorded the day before his assassination. Interviewed by John Clemente & Arnaldo Ramos. English translation by Andres Alegria. Same as CD183.
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.
Interview with William Leo Grand on Panama
Date: 12/29/1989Call Number: LA 085BFormat: Cass BProducers: Atlanta Committee for Latin AmericaProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Struggles in Latin America
This interview with William Leo Grand, a professor of government at the American University explores the dynamics of the recent US invasion of Panama. He explains the relationship of Noriega with the CIA, the relationship of Panama with Nicaragua and Cuba, nationalism in Panama and the predicted outcome of the invasion.
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.
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.
