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...time we went to do When The Mountains Tremble there had been no serious film on Guatemala. To this day there really is almost no film material on Guatemala. Yet the level of the war there was every bit as awful and as serious as the war in EI Salvador, and the United States was becoming involved. We wanted to break that wall of silence...
...thing, thirty years ago the revolution in Cuba hadn't happened, the revolution in Nicaragua hadn't happened and the insurgency in EI Salvador hadn't gotten to the point it has now. Some of the same inequities still exist, but the historical context is very different. The opposition in Guatemala today are opposing the military on a whole different level. If and when they're ever victorious, it will be a far more profound change than they saw with the election of Aravenz [the first democratically elected president of Guatemala, deposed by a CIA coup...
...free and open setting, citing the Vietna, War, race relations, and other such topics. Nothing on the order of those disturbances now threatens free speech--at least openly. But try, at dinner or in a section, to start an argument against divestiture, or for U.S. military involvement in EI Salvador, or in favor of Reagan--ior against affirmative action, for that matter...
About a quarter of the state's representative districts, including Cambridge, Somerville, Watertown and Brookline, will be vote on a proposition to sense military aid to EI Salvador, Honduras, and Guatamala and to withdraw support from the Nicaraguan "centers...
Farrell called Reagan's policy "jack-booted brutish mentality" and desired military aid to EI Salvador...