AMDigital Reference: N-507118

Director, Illya Nashevnika ; script, Sergey Losaiov, Igor Timorfavov ; camera, Aleksandr Iminaiov

Electronic reproduction. Marlborough, Wiltshire : AM, 2017. Digitized from a copy from the British Film Institute and made available by AM.

British Film Institute

Description based on online resource (viewed August 19, 2024).

Alternate version. Documentary film focusing on the role that the US government plays in Latin America. Philip Agee discussing the secret war being waged by United States at a press conference in Nicaragua. The CIA and US terrorism. Footage of Castro speaking on the 20th Anniversary of Playa Girón (Bay of Pigs). Scenes of the Sandino (Sandinista) National Liberation Front and US news report of a chain reaction in Latin America. Footage of President Reagan and Secretary Haig describing revolutionaries as terrorists. Stock footage of CIA buildings and Cuban counter-revolutionaries. Saboteurs recruited in Miami are interviewed. Footage of soldiers training for guerrilla warfare. Footage of Castro and a Senate Commission questioning Richard Helms, former CIA chief, about assassination attempts on Castro. A man shot dead in the street, juxtaposed with Nicaraguan troops. Footage of the dictator Somoza and an interview about torture, intercut with images. Agee confirms that the CIA are in contact with the Salvadoran junta. Footage of Duarte in El Salvador and civilians with their hands raised in surrender. Scenes of weapons being prepared and the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front fighting to the sounds of a Chilean revolutionary song. Official statistics of tortured and killed, by international terrorism.

Content warning: includes footage of dead bodies and torture.

T︠S︡entral'naia Amerika : stavka na terror

Socialism on Film. Module I, Wars & revolutions.

Socialism on film module I: wars & revolutions

Latin America > Foreign relations > United States.

Latin America > Politics and government > 1948-1980.

Latin America > Politics and government > 1980-

United States > Foreign relations > Latin America.