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Its not just jobs and prosperity that draw immigrants to the United States. Many Latin American’s were brought here, or forced to come by dangerous or deadly conditions. And the US often had a role in creating those crises. Over the next 2 weeks, we’ll hear “Harvest of Empire” a documentary film written and narrated by Democracy Now’s Juan Gonzalez. Today, in part one, Gonzalez traces the history of Guatemalan, Dominican, and Mexican migration to the United States.
Featuring:
Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now co-host and Harvest of Empire author; Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize-Winning author, Robert White, Former US ambassador to El Salvador; Rigoberta Menchu, Guatemalan political activist and 1992 Nobel Peace Prize winner; Melvin Goodman, Former CIA division chief; Mariana Cabrera, Guatemalan immigrant; Mariana Zamboni; Mariana Cabrera’s daughter; Lorenzo Meyer, historian and political analyst
More information:
American Latino Theme Study
Pewhispanic
The American dreams and Latino Immigrants
Dr Lorenzo Mayer
A look back at immigration
Democracy Now
Harvest of Empire
Rigoberta Menchu
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao