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We owe black people something; we have a legacy of slavery. But I have to say about the Dominican Republic, Id really like to make a point, that one of the main reasons we made this film is really personified by Junot Daz, who is now contributing as one of our great American writers. JUAN GONZLEZ: Yeah, well, I think that throughout Central Americain Salvador, in Nicaragua, in Hondurastheres always been a very small elite that has benefited from being a comprador group, basically facilitating the exploitation of their own countries by American businesses, largely. date the date you are citing the material. ", "Harvest of Empire is a breakthrough documentary in the way it connects the historical interaction between the US and Latin America with the immigration debate. Description "A sweeping history of the Latinx experience in the United States. co-director and producer of the new feature-length documentary. Gonzalez seeks to reveal the story hidden behind many of these stereotypes as he explores over 500 years of history, providing readers with a fuller and more honest account of the past. JUAN GONZLEZ: Well, the harvest of the empire, as I explain in both the book and in the movie, is that thestarting at the end of World War II, really, the people of the third world started coming to the West, and they came precisely to those countries that had once been their colonial masters, so that, in France, they dont know what to do about all the Algerians and the Tunisians and the Moroccans; in England, they dont know what to do about all the Indians and the Pakistanis and the Jamaicans; in the United States, they dont know what to do about all the Latin Americans. Publication date 2001 . publication online or last modification online. And our actions in 1954 in Guatemala taking down the rbenz government unleashed decades of civil war in that country that ended up killing more than 200,000 people. And we beingboth of us being Latino immigrantsWendy from Peru and me from El Salvadorwe knew the real story. JUAN GONZLEZ: There have been two major U.S. occupations of the Dominican Republic. JUAN GONZLEZ: The reality is that America is changing. You know, you cant grow if you admit no mistakes. Then we wrap up on Monday at Virginia Tech. And Rigoberta Mench is the person who most personifies that struggle of the Mayan people throughout that time. ", "Directors Peter Getzels and Eduardo Lopez wisely strip their argument of passion, and pile on history and facts to highlight the U.S. role in the surge of immigrants crossing the border in the past century a refreshing approach in this age of punditry and choir-preaching. JUAN GONZLEZ: They never teach us in school that the huge Latino presence here is a direct result of our own governments actions in Mexico, the Caribbean and Central America over many decades. Latinos are now the largest minority group in the United States, and their impact on American popular culture-from food to entertainment to literature-is greater than ever. AMY GOODMAN: An excerpt of Harvest of Empire, premiering this week in New York and Los Angeles, based on the book Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America by the award-winning journalist and Democracy Now! It handpicked a former railway security officer, Rafael Trujillo, to lead that guard. I want to play a clip from Harvest of Empire that talks about the history of U.S. involvement in the Dominican Republic, where many of the immigrants here in New York City hail from. By Juan Gonzlez (Penguin, Updated Release 2011), Harvest of Empire: New Book Exposes Latino History in America as Obama Campaigns for Latino Vote, Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License, Sudans Army Agrees to 24-Hour Ceasefire with Rival Faction as Civilian Toll Mounts, Kansas City Homeowner Charged for Shooting Black Teen Who Rang Wrong Doorbell, Grand Jury Wont Indict Akron, Ohio, Police Officers Who Shot Jayland Walker 46 Times, Two Indianapolis Cops Charged with Manslaughter for Killing Herman Whitfield in Parents Home, Video Shows New Mexico Police Fatally Shooting Homeowner After Knocking on Wrong Door, Florida Gov. France has an immigration problem. AMY GOODMAN: Thats right. AMY GOODMAN: An excerpt of Harvest of Empire. In Harvest of Empire, Juan Gonzalez tells a sweeping history of Latinos in the United States, from the early colonial era to the present day. They understand that it could spell the doom of the Republican Party for a generation to come. The film is based on a book by Juan Gonzlez , Democracy Now! Rather than attribute English success to the often touted Protestant work ethic, the author points out that the domination is a direct cause of the Anglo settlers consistently seizing more and more Latino land. Harvest of Empire by Juan Gonzalez: what are chapters 15 about, with details? My father was the standard kind of crazy Latino military guy who would check his childrens hands and their shoes and their clothes and their hair before we left the house. In the census of 1980, there were less than 100,000 Salvadorans listed, and just 32 years later, we are poised to become the third-largest Latino population in the United States. Documentary that examines the direct connection between the long history of U.S. intervention in Latin America and the immigration crisis we face today. The first option involves the induction of Puerto Rico as a full-fledged state. Ov>xBH"9-cSH"NcrHd?MJ:1) Jokjc=T=[g{KI;INmC 9>&x { y}xy/ka%1 ;M(dYb]H 02+ f%1p ", "I hope that "Harvest of Empire" gets a billion viewers, that it wins an Academy Award or an Emmy and that its producers and author strut at Cannes on a red carpet, if only as an expression that there's a reward for telling the truth, doing good and getting an overdue conversation going between neighbors. Harvest of Empire attempts to fill in the gaps, and the reasons dont include some naive notion about streets being paved with goldRaises a very important moral question, and one that rarely enters the immigration debate: If America is responsible for destabilizing a country, what is our role when the countrys citizens suffer as a result?, Rachel Saltz, N.Y. Times Harvest of Empire has a journalistic pedigree and a punch that comes from political advocacyThe filmmakers retain a touching faith that most Americans wont tolerate injustice when they know about it. Read the Review. The problem was that there was enormous repression against the Bosch forces, killings on an almost daily basis. But that really was from the 60s into the 90s, you had throughout Latin America the rule of these dictators and military leaders that were largely backed by the United States. %PDF-1.6 % Spanning 500 years of Hispanic history, from the first New World colonies to the 19th century westward expansion in America, this narrative features family portraits of real-life immigrants along with sketches of the political events and social conditions that compelled them to leave their homeland. AMY GOODMAN: Allen Dulles and John Foster Dulles. But where this money came from and the people who gave it to him is something that he really should have looked at much more closely, because it is related to the most terrible atrocities. Note: When citing an online source, it is important to include all necessary dates. This film is meant to teach them., Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter Makes the devastating case that intervention by both the U.S. government and multinational corporations has been directly or indirectly partly responsible for much of the mass influx of immigrants from Latin AmericaWith the immigration debate currently consuming much of the current political climate, theres no better time for the release of Harvest of Empire., Peter Hartlaub, S.F. Gonzalez attributes the rise in Central American immigration to the United States directly to US interventionism in the region. DAVID BROOKS: But when the immigrants come, they come with a culture of criminality. And we just felt compelled to take action, because we really felt that the United States, that our fellow citizens needed to know why Latinos had come to the United States, the real reasons, the rootsthe root causes of immigration. Gonzalez cites US support for dictators such as Fulgencio Batista in Cuba and Rafael El Jefe Trujillo in the Dominican Republic as examples of US interference. California, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Coloradothis was all part of Mexico. However, despite being politically recognized as United States territory, much of the land that forms the Southwestern United States traditionally belonged to Mexico. And the Republicans dont understand. A sweeping history of the Latino experience in the United States- thoroughly revised and updated. But I think the Dominican Republic really, in terms of this idea not just of U.S. intervention in the '60s, but going back earlier in the 20th century, that the United States has always really dictated a lot of what goes on in the Dominican Republic. And this, again, is a testament to the team that created this. So when the United States government basically backed the coup against Juan Bosch, it sent a message throughout Latin America that the government was going to beour government was going to be the enemy of real social change in the region. EDUARDO LPEZ: Yes. The U.S. Army trained a new Dominican National Guard. So the United States then began allowing large numbers of Dominican former rebels to come to the United States as a way, again, of using migration as a safety valve. This led to a rise in broader anti-immigrant attitudes, which negatively impacted many Latin American groups. Its on 13th Street. The last date is today's Latinos are now the largest minority group in the United States, and their impact on American . And we could see all the Guardia that were on all the roofs. Oh, Lord. Furthermore, Gonzalez analyzes the dependency on seasonal labor that free-trade policies and economic exploitation have created for both the United States and Latin America. AMY GOODMAN: And so, Juan, nowI mean, the first day of the Democratic convention in Charlotte, a bus pulled up in front of the gates, the UndocuBus, and scores of people got out chanting No papers, no fear! Ten got arrested in the pouring rain as the police poured in. The film examines how New York Daily News columnist. Yes, itsthe Dominican Republic really is one of the many examples, but there are others, of Salvador, Guatemala and Cuba, as well, in terms of the effect of American foreign policy on the migration. It was Reagan who approved thewho signed into law the Simpson-Rodino bill that provided the opportunity for about three million people who were then in the country, undocumented, to legalize their status. The film is premiering in Los Angeles at the Laemmle Theater in Pasadena and at the Quad theater here in New York beginning on the 28th, on Friday, right through the 4th, here at the Quad theater. ", "With the immigration debate currently consuming much of the current political climate, there's no better time for the release of Harvest of Empire. Presents a history of Latinos in America, from the first colonies in the New World through today, and offers portraits of distinguished Americans of Hispanic descent that have played a key role in the evolving face of American life. And, to me, its unbelievable that now Governor Romney talks about immigrants with derogatory terms like illegals, and yet he profited from the funding that actually caused so much of the immigration to the United States from El Salvador. Using rarely seen newsreel footage and interviews with prominent migrants from countries in the Caribbean, Mexico, and Central America, the film puts a human face on an issue too often reduced to vulgar stereotyping. The final option, and the one that Gonzalez endorses, is a voluntary association model, wherein Puerto Rico maintains its relationship with the United States while also receiving a greater degree of local autonomy. EDUARDO LPEZ: Well, the way was quite difficult, because it was a seven-year journey between the time we first met with Juan about the book and today. AMY GOODMAN: That was Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney speaking during an interview on Univision last week. Host George Stephanopoulos asked Coulter about her claim. 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