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
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.
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
Songs from SUTAUR 100 1989 Strike (Mexico City)
Music and songs from the 1989 strike by SUTAUR 100, a bus drivers union in Mexico City, Mexico.
Silvio Rodríguez Domínguez
Music and songs by Silvio Rodríguez Domínguez, a Cuban folk singer who writes about love and revolutionary politics.
Cantandole al Che (Songs devoted to Che Guevara)
This film is a homage to Che Guevera with about 20 songs dedicated to El Che and his comrades. Along with the music tracks the film includes picture of Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution along with pictures taken by Che himself.
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.
Chilean musical concert, March 1973
Popular Chilean revolutionary music concert at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Devlopment (UNCTAD) Building, with Quilapayun and Dean Reed.
Chilean musical concert, March 1973
Continuation of popular Chilean revolutionary music concert at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Building, with Quilapayun and Dean Reed.
Chile: Cantos Para La Resistencia; Pablo Neruda poetry
Side A: Chile: Cantos Para La Resistencia (Chile: Songs for the Resistance)
Protest/political music from 1974 by the Chilean band, Karaxú and other various Chilean exiled artists from the 1973 Chilean coup d'état.
Side B: Pablo Neruda reading and commenting upon his poetry. Poems recited include “Nuevo canto de amor a Stalingrado,” “Lautaro,” “Americas,” “Oda a la Poesia,” etc. Some hissing.
Interview with Luis Godoy
1989 interview with Nicaraguan revolutionary musician, Luis Godoy. Godoy was born in 1945 during the Samoza dictatorship. He speaks about the responsibility of an artist to send an important message and raise the consciousness of the people. Godoy then explained that from a very young age he realized that he could express the injustices of Nicaragua through songs, "I realized that my music could be used as a social tool". Throughout the interview, Godoy discusses those who have influenced his music, his involvement with past bands, and his visions for the future in both his musical career and for his country.
