Fri, 7 May 2010
7.2Mb 64kbps mono 15 minutes 26 seconds. Toni Solo of tortillaconsal gets behind the media facade and explains some of the subtleties of the situation in Central America. The growing success of the Sandinista party and President Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua, in spite of US hostility, the potential of a new elected Costa Rican President after decades of the established figurehead Arias, and the surprising and paradoxical role of the Salvadoran President in the fraught relationship with the coup regime in Honduras, and the contentious recognition of the newly inaugurated President there. |
Fri, 7 May 2010
11.5 Mb. 128 kbps mono 24 minutes 35 seconds. Entire interview with Tamar Sharabi. Tamar Sharabi had been working in Honduras on projects involving sustainability and water for several years when she was witness to the effects of the coup in Honduras at the end of June last year and turned to working on a media project. As a media worker she was directly affected by the heavy repression and was witness to the numerous human rights violations of the coup regime. She has much to say about the particular effects of domination of Honduras a by a small elite on the situation of women, and how resistance to the coup and the coup regime has led to new levels of self empowerment. |
Fri, 7 May 2010
13Mb. 128 kbps. mono 21 minutes 31 seconds Singer Karla Lara had just completed a tour of the US when she did this interview for community radio. She tells how she began singing at the age of 16 when she was invited to work with the Salvadoran guerilla band Cutumay Camones and how the New Song movement sweeping Latin America informed her political commitment and her life as an activist. Karla is touring to bring attention to the situation in Honduras where a regime that resulted from a coup last year is responsible for continuing gross human rights violations. |
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