Fund-raising
NACLA hosted its first fund-
raising party in November, for NY-
area sustainers. Two hundred peo-
ple came to hear guest speakers
Ramsey Clark and Edmundo
Desnoes (author of Memories of
Underdevelopment). They also
came to share a sense of
NACLA’s history, and the history of
struggle in Latin America, by Former Pres. Juan Bosch and NACLA Associate Julia Preston at fund-raiser.
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welcoming Juan Bosch-ex-
president of the Dominican
Republic. Readers may remember
that NACLA was formed in 1966,
in response to the U.S. invasion of
that island to prevent a popular
rebellion from reinstating the
democratically elected govern-
ment of Juan Bosch.
To all NY sustainers, thank you
for making it an encouraging even-
ing of solidarity and support.
Filling the Gap
Traditional news sources have
given at best scanty coverage to
events in Central America and, at
worst, grossly distorted accounts
of El Salvador’s bloody war of
liberation. NACLA speakers have
been in great demand to provide
an alternative view of the conflict.
Bob Armstrong has spoken at col-
leges throughout the Northeast
and as far west as Missouri in the
past two months, and took a
2-hour documentary on the
Salvadorean struggle, “Revolution
or Death,” to Elmira State Prison
for a showing to Latin inmates.
NACLA also participated in a
UN-sponsored “Southeast
Dialogue on the Changing World
Economy” in Atlanta, Georgia. In a
workshop examining the role of
multinational corporations in Latin
America, we took on the vice-
presidents of Castle & Cooke and
Coca-Cola. Ray Pagan, the C&C
representative, alienated the au-
dience all by himself, however, by
citing Chile as the model of what
corporations can do for Latin
America!
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