https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/b09302a8-dbda-4259-b4ee-3e678cda81c4 Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Help us preserve, scan and post more rare and endangered films! Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com Directed by Sandra W. Bradley and produced by the American Security Council Foundation for the Coalition for Peace Through Strength, “Attack on the Americas” (1980) is a propaganda film that warns against the expansion of Cuban-style communism across the Caribbean and Central and South America. Appearing are President Ronald Reagan, Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, and Alfonso Robelo, a former Sandinista leader. Chaotic scenes from riot (0:08). Cuban President Fidel Castro at mass rally held in Managua, Nicaragua, to commemorate the first anniversary of the triumph of the Sandinista Revolution (1980) (0:47). FAPU (Unified Popular Action Front) graffiti tags in El Salvador (1:00). Sandinista militants with red and black bandanas stand with guns (IWI Uzi) in forest; Militants train volunteers in gun handling (1:09). Map marking spread of Soviet-style communist ideology across Central and Latin America (1:28). Nicaragua: More footage Silvio Mayorga, Castro observing same military parade in Managua 1980 (1:32). El Salvador: Graphic footage civilian casualties of civil war (1:53). Guatemala: Young soldiers conduct raids on small villages looking for guerrilla forces (2:11). Grenada: Maurice Bishop (leader of New Jewel Movement) makes speech (2:28). Return to map, Castro’s goal of dominating land bridge between the Americas (3:35). Interview with Lt. Gen, Gordon Sumner Jr. (former chairman, Inter-American Defense Board) (3:42). Oil wells along coastline of Caribbean basin and Gulf of Mexico; Oil tanker ships pass through Panama Canal (4:11). Soviet-Cuban relationship: Castro visit to Moscow (1963), standing next to Nikita Khrushchev on Lenin’s Tomb; Cuban-Soviet strategy at Tricontinental Conference (1966); Castro addressing Soviet Communist party congress (1976) (5:03). Castro and Angola: José Eduardo dos Santos shakes Castro’s hand, Cuban proxy forces patrol street in Angola; Interview with Jeremias Chitunda (5:49). Military parade in Ethiopia (6:17). Launching of rockets, the Soviet Brigade in Cuba; Soviet military jets in Cuba i.e. MiG-21, MiG-23, Tupolev Tu-95; Soviet submarine base (6:43). Jimmy Carter, "Commencement Address at Notre Dame University" (May 1977); Carter new anti-communist policy (8:03). US Department of State, interview Jeane Kirkpatrick (8:38). Nicaraguan Revolution 1970s: Castro training of FSLN guerrilla forces in Costa Rica, stockpiles of weapons transported through Costa Rica and Panama, battle with Somoza backed gov troops (9:25). Sandinista fighters storm capital city of Managua (11:22). Interview Alfonso Robelo (11:53). Footage surveying damage done to Nicaragua’s infrastructure, human toll (12:00). Committees for the Defense of the Sandinistas social programming: Literacy campaign, building roads, political parades, censorship (12:44). Sandinista official signs communiqué in Moscow (1980) approving Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (15:04). Carter televised speech absolving Cuba of Nicaragua meddling (15:15). Interview Warren Christopher (15:21). Interview Jeane Kirkpatrick (15:52). Grenada: Cuban supplied weapons to People's Revolutionary Army (PRA), Komatsu bulldozers pave way for new airfield (16:14). Maurice Bishop speaks in Nicaragua at Sandinista rally mass rally held in Managua, Nicaragua (1980) (17:09). El Salvador: Hostage taking, riots, guerrilla and police fighting in San Salvador (17:40). Interview Warren Christopher, explains Carter policy towards South America (18:48). Interview Jeane Kirkpatrick (19:13). Guatemala: Jungle, aerial view of Mayan pyramids, government troops patrol jungle where guerrilla troops have been operating, graphic images of injured troops in hospital (20:12). Interview Lt. Gen, Gordon Sumner Jr. discussing Carter admin’s human rights criteria; Continued by Jeane Kirkpatrick (20:53). Interview Henry Kissinger (22:04). Interview Alfonso Robelo (22:22). Footage aftermath Puerto Rican separatist group Macheteros attack on U.S. Navy bus (22:44). Michael Manley (Jamaican PM) delivers speech in packed hall; Loses re-election campaign (1980) to Edward Seaga (23:23). Ronald Reagan campaign video (23:49). Montage civilian suffering from war and riots in El Salvador and Guatemala plays (24:07). Ronald Reagan segment continues (24:50). 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