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
2 Documents Found
Fernando Alegria y Nelson Villagra
Date: 1/24/1979Call Number: LA 182Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Casa de las AmericasCollection: Struggles in Latin America
Recital de poemas y canciones
0. Afinacion y acrordes de la guitarra, Nelson
1. Palabras introductorias de fernando
2. Fernando : Schneider - ragueo en mayor; Victor - la mayor y do; Letelier - SIN GUITARRA
3. La Companera - se continuan los acordes suaves para acompanar regreso
4. Fernando - Regreso
5. La Batalla en la Moneda guitarra se queda en tonada, en menor
5.1 Heridas traigo de muerte
6. El Congelado
7. El Comite de Resistencia
8. Me gustan todas las coses
9. El Ultraunitario
10. Fernando - Ponerle y no ponerle; rasgueo de tonada; Gallito de la pasion rasgueo de cueca
11. El Clandesta
Joan Turner Jara interviewed by Christian Opaso
Christian Opaso interviews Joan Turner Jara about her experience in Chile, cultural and political, and about the life of her late husband Victor Jara. Joan speaks about the difference of the Chilean culture before and after the coup. She also gives an account of Victor Jara’s death in the Chilean National Stadium as well as the censorship that his music and memory faced after his death.
2 Documents Found