New Resources
SOLIDARITY RESOURCES Guatemala: The Gathering Storm is the most recent production by GCR Media Arts which also produced slideshows on Nicaragua and El Salvador. This 25-minute slideshow makes...
...A more scholarly and thorough approach to the first year and a half of Sandinista rule, the period also covered by the above book...
...Write for price, paper, 223 pgs...
...Labor statistics for 180 countries and territories, mostly 1970-79, are presented with Spanish, French and English text...
...Purchase: $450, Rental: $50...
...Part two documents the process itself...
...CISCAC Publications, GPO Box 5421CC, Melbourne 3001, Australia...
...Write for price, paper, 125 pgs...
...Good account of FMLN military strategies and actions...
...EL SALVADOR David Samuel Kruse and Richard Swedberg, El Salvador Bibliography and Research Guide (Central America Information Office [CAMINO], 1982...
...An introductory essay offers guidance on how to do research on El Salvador...
...Write for rental or purchase cost: Center for Latin America, The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, PO...
...A moving account of their struggles with hunger, disease and the fear of violence and deportation...
...This 12-page booklet compiles documents and articles on the historic role of the Church in the Nicaraguan revolutionary process...
...Beginning with the pre-Colombian period, the book moves into a dependency analysis of Nicaragua to help explain the need for a revolution and the directions it might take...
...The show, narrated in English and Spanish, is designed for those with some previous knowledge of Central America...
...Mostly in Spanish...
...Westview Press, 5500 Central Avenue, Boulder, CO 80301...
...8, paper, 293 pgs...
...This 25-minute slideshow makes use of stunning photography and presents the sounds and scenes from the 1982 elections and military coup...
...Useful both to those interested in events in Nicaragua and in the Church's role in social change...
...57, cloth, 687 pgs...
...Obviously impressed by what he saw in the post-victory flush, Walker's before and after accounts of culture, society, economy, etc., form a concise and helpful introduction-particularly for students and political tourists...
...policy, agrarian reform, church, culture, women, etc...
...Solid analysis of land reform program, including what has happened after the 1982 elections...
...politics since World War II have been based on continued economic growth, even Reaganomics...
...Gale Research Company, Book Tower, Detroit, MI 48226...
...Institute for Food and Development Policy, 2588 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94110...
...By looking up El Salvador, one may, for example, find the name of experts on minerals, agriculture and commerce, or desk officers at State and the International Communications Agency...
...and key post-triumph statements on the victory strategy, human rights, religion, economy and imperialism...
...Casa de las Americas, 3ra...
...Laurence R. Simon, James C. Stephens Jr., 1982 supplement by Martin Diskin, El Salvador Land Reform 1980-1981 (Oxfam America, 1982...
...CAMINO, 1151 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138...
...Australian $3, paper, 72 pgs...
...Dollars and Dictators is a 30-minute slideshow on the U.S...
...The Resource Center, Box 4726, Albuquerque, NM 87196...
...Fifth in a series on contemporary Latin American nations by Westview and first in an ongoing love affair with Nicaragua by Walker (see below...
...32.95, cloth...
...The book is aimed at making the wealth of free information and analysis culled by the federal government accessible to the public...
...Very stimulating history and political analysis...
...Includes twenty-three contributions on topics including the insurrection...
...75, paper, 645 pgs...
...Alan Wolfe, America's Impasse: The Rise and Fall of the Politics of Growth (South End Press, 1981...
...20006, or ILO Publications, ILO, CH-1211 Geneva 22, Switzerland...
...Well illustrated...
...y G, El Vedado, Ciudad de la Habana, Cuba...
...Illustrated...
...Jeanne Gallo, SND, 24 Curtis Avenue, Somerville, MA 02144...
...Rental: $25 per week...
...Particularly valuable in this collection is a description of the Movimiento Pueblo Unido and its pre-victory program, unification documents of the FSLN, and clearly enumerated socio-economic data about Nicaragua during the last years of the Somoza regime...
...Available in 1/2 inch VHS and 3/4 inch video cassette formats...
...Praeger Publishers, 521 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10175...
...Speeches, documents and interviews by five central leaders of the FSLN: Tomas Borge, Daniel Ortega, Humberto Ortega, Jaime Wheelock and Carlos Fonseca Amador...
...also good maps...
...politics...
...Box 413, Milwaukee, WI 53201...
...160 35-mm slides with casette soundtrack: $85 or $90 from abroad...
...Prices are same as above...
...130, cloth-, 1388 pgs...
...Purchase price: $65 to individuals and citizen groups...
...7, September 1982...
...Doris Hermes, Kielortalle 4, 2000 Hamburg 13, West Germany...
...In this film, the actors speak: corporate and military officers, coop workers, union leaders and the local priest...
...An extremely comprehensive and useful listing of 2000 bibliographical entries from Spanish and English-language periodicals, scholarly literature, Salvadorean and U.S...
...Pathfinder Press...
...International Labour Office, Washington Branch, 1750 New York Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C...
...Thomas W. Walker, Nicaragua, the Land of Sandino (Westview, 1981...
...Entries are grouped thematically in 16 sections on such topics as U.S...
...English translation of the first major speech on women's status by a Nicaraguan government leader since the 1979 triumph...
...17 for institutions, $11 for individuals, paper, 230 pgs...
...aid, intervention, regionalization, primarily from Mexican and Latin American press...
...role in Central America-agribusiness, influence in industry and the media, military and economic aid, loan policies...
...50 El Parcial, El Salvador: La Intervencion Estadounidense (No...
...and early considerations of the international aspect...
...The 38 tables are by country and cover employment, unemployment, length of the working day, wages, consumer prices, industrial accidents and disputes...
...government documents...
...A Selected Bibliography of Key Statistical Sources is followed by 20,000 subject headings, listed alphabetically, which cite 30,000 print or "live" sources...
...Write for price, paper, 255 pgs...
...125 to institutions...
...Washington Researchers, 916 16th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C...
...post-revolutionary interest groups (mass organizations, armed forces, working class, women, churches, news media...
...A useful index of references and sources sends those seeking more detail in the right direction...
...Editorial Revolucion, Gran Via, 88, Bloque 6, 90, puerta 3, Madrid-8, Spain...
...And Also Teach Them to Read and Five Months That Changed a Nation are one-hour video documentaries on Nicaragua's national literacy crusade produced by the University of Wisconsin in cooperation with the Nicaraguan Ministry of Education...
...Las Isletas, a successful worker-controlled banana cooperative, became the symbol of hope throughout Central America...
...A useful listing of 15,000 specialists in the federal government-their area of expertise, location and phone number...
...Empar Pineda, ed., La Revolucion Nicaraguense (Editorial Revolucion, 1980...
...Omar Cabezas Lacayo, La montana as algo mas qua una Inmensa estepa verde (Casa de las Americas, 1982...
...Selection of news and analytical accounts of land reform, U.S...
...20006...
...10.95, paper, 137 pgs...
...Seeds of Revolution is an award-winning documentary produced by Howard Enders with assistance from the Institute for Food and Development Policy...
...14.95, paper, 410 pgs...
...Spot checks turned up errors in indexing and at least one wrong telephone number...
...20, cloth...
...We hear the voices of Rios Montt, Indian leader Rigoberta Menchu, U.S...
...Ambassador Fred Chapin and the guerrillas...
...CISCAC, El Salvador: A Dossier (CISCAC, 1981...
...When it tried to break Castle & Cooke's (Dole) marketing monopoly, the cooperative became the target of military and corporate attacks...
...South End Press, 302 Columbus Avenue, Boston, MA 02116...
...NICARAGUA Tomas Borge, Women and the Nicaraguan Revolution (Pathfinder Press, 1982...
...Sandinistas Speak (Pathfinder Press, 1982...
...Written by clergy and lay people, sections address unity and disunity within the Catholic Church, the country's Protestants, the Pope and Nicaragua...
...a 1969 politicalhistorical overview by Carlos Fonseca...
...More than just for Nicaragua watchers, it is an important contribution to the general debate for its theses that women's oppression is rooted in historic economic dependence on men (pre-dating class exploitation) and cannot be resolved without changing economic structures...
...Interesting but inevitably uneven, the whole is not more coherent than the sum of its parts...
...Good, basic pamphlet on origins of revolution by an Australian solidarity group...
...Part one examines the social and historical context in which the crusade was conceived and implemented...
...Editorial Revolucion...
...Antonio Alvarez-Solis and others, El Salvador: la larga marcha del pueblo (Editorial Revolucion, 1982...
...Oxfam America, 115 Broadway, Boston, MA 02116...
...Pathfinder Press, 410 West Street, New York, NY 10014...
...This hefty volume can tell you where to turn...
...Thomas W. Walker, ed., Nicaragua in Revolution (Praeger Special Studies, 1982...
...5, paper, 61 pgs...
...4.95, paper, 160 pgs...
...Write for price, paper, 284 pgs...
...The collection concludes with Borge's speech at the Second Anniversary and Daniel Ortega's 1981 address to the United Nations-- 'An Appeal for Justice and Peace...
...revolutionary programs and policies...
...Thirdly, this process of change is insufficient unless accompanied by simultaneous ideological/cultural struggle...
...2.50 single copy, 10-99 copies, 50% discount, over 100 copies, 60% discount, Central America Update, Box 2207, Station P, Toronto, Canada M5S 2T2...
...Fully indexed...
...The Resource Center...
...Documents current situation in light of brief historical overview...
...Paul Wasserman and Jacqueline O'Brien, eds., Statistics Sources-A Subject Guide to Data on Industrial, Business, Social, Educational, Financial, and Other Topics for the United States and Internationally (Gale Research Company, 1982...
...Nine selections include the 1969 FSLN program...
...Church and Revolution In Nicaragua is a special supplement to the November'82 issue of the Canadian Central America Update...
...In Pursuit of Refuge is a 25-minute slide/tape show featuring the voices, faces and music of Guatemalan and Salvadorean refugees...
...MISCELLANEOUS 1980 Yearbook of Labour Statistics (International Labour Office, 1980...
...One of the earliest in the growing library of key FSLN documents which help explain the Sandinista struggle...
...16-mm, also on 3/4" video casette, 30-minutes...
...Michele M. Newman, ed., Researcher's Guide to Washington Experts (Washington Researchers, 1982...
...Growth, Wolfe argues, is no longer a viable basis for political ideology and strategy, hence, the paralysis of U.S...
...Winner of the 1982 Casa de las update . update * update * update Americas prize for testimonials, this first-person account relives episodes of the anti-Somoza struggle from Comandante Cabezas' 1968 entry into the FSLN as an 18-year-old law graduate...
...Use of mules in Uruguay...
...75, paper, 30 pgs...
...Currently head of policy planning in Nicaragua's Ministry of the Interior, Cabezas has written a poetic, humorous, raw, powerful and personal narrative of the pre-insurrectionary period...
...From Spain, basic history of origins of current struggle...
...Best single source on subject...
...Ever wonder about cheese production in Haiti...
...businessman Fred Sherwood, U.S...
Vol. 17 • March 1983 • No. 2
