so much and getting it so wrong, but people who have been deeply involved in issues. to have those deeply involved meet analysts' is remarkably different. we ask you to make the call for authenticity, for independent media. the number to call is 866-359- 4334. today we focused on harvest of empire, the untold story of latinos in america. that is the name of a new film out, based on my colleague juan gonzales, who you have seen here on democracy now! as a founding co-host. he wrote a book a decade ago called "harvest of empire," published it for revised editions, and it is required reading around the country.

filmmakers were astounded by this book and they decided to .ake a film based on that today we're offering you that film and it is rare that we can offer it to you. $100 contribution, the book and movie together, $150. i want to encourage you to pledge even as you watch it. for the first time, we are able to play a larger excerpt of the helm. "usesilm "harvest of empire rarely seen archival material revealing a direct connection between a long history of u.s. intervention in latin america and today's immigration crisis. the international documentary association presented it with an award for best use of archival footage. there was a ceremony in los angeles. for the first time we are

planning these extended segments for link tv. you want to go to a segment that deals with the assassination of oscar romero. it was 1980 in el salvador. this clip features the voices of a former u.s. ambassador to ambassador -- el salvador, but begins with a father when the same -- talking about what he witnessed in el salvador. >> i had never seen anything like el salvador. i was more frightened there, than in vietnam. i had never seen such brutality of a military towards their people. the death squads were running wild. what was going on there was the slaughter of the innocent.

anyone against u.s. foreign landy -- talking about reform -- were labeled subversive, enemies. >> [speaking spanigh] [speaking spanish]

>> we could talk for hours about bishop romero. he was special. like most of us, he went through this conversion, silent, aloof, but something happened to bishop romero. he began to hear the cry of his

people, he felt their suffering. i am a said was, catholic bishop with a lot of influence and power. i must speak for my people who do not have a voice. >> every sunday, the whole country listened to him. you could walk down the block and not here -- miss a word he said because everyone was listening. and he would say, is enough already, stop the killing. of archbishoprmon oscar romero that he gave in the cathedral before he was assassinated, he made a special plea to the military saying, stop the killing. weapon, disobey your superior officers telling fellowkill your

countrymen, and obey a higher law. the law that says thou shalt not kill. >> his assassination in church stunned the entire nation. grow,the crowd started to they realized this was going to be a very difficult time. , all of ald see sudden, there were shots fired. .nd then the bomb went off everybody scattered. then they opened fire.

lord. it is important the world now .hat we stood behind him for the first time, someone had said, you are killing the people you are sworn to protect. we received a telephone call saying a man had seen the bodies .f four women .ery definitely american he began reading the

descriptions of the four women. as he read each one, i could say, that was jean. that's jean. that's dorothy. got down there a to pray. my prayer, as i said before, how long, god, must this continue to happen? this fellow. what is your position? repression in el salvador. >> let me say a word about all saw the door. maybe it will help. >> are we killing priests in el salvador? if youwill understand, read our reporting that it was

the military that killed these women. no doubt about that. we learned that the vast majority of those who participated in these massacres and human rights abuses were trained right down the street from here. united nations truth commission report on el salvador documented that those who killed bishop oscar romero trained here at this school. killed theaped and churchwomen of those responsible, four of them were graduates. of the 12 responsible for the killings of children, 10 of them are graduates of this school of the americas. it was highly secret.

some of the worst tyrants in central american history have come through the school of america's, and it is essentially an indoctrination tool to build close ties with the people we identify as future military leaders in central america and south america, and american military representatives. when you finance and train a game of uniformed butchers, and they began wholesale killing, wiping of whole villages, the people do not immigrate, they they flee.igrate,

>> paul salvador is a prepared example of how u.s. policy in latin america affects migration. in 1980, there were only 94,000 salvadorans in the united states. , tens ofar escalated thousands of salvadorans fled to this country. today, the salvadoran population of the united states is the third largest of all latino groups in the country. >> i believe in the idea of amnesty for those who have put down roots and have lived here, even though some time back they may have entered illegally. >> a lot of people forget it was president ronald reagan, perhaps the most conservative president lawll time, signed into the immigration reform of 1986.

[inaudible] >> you have been watching an excerpt of "harvest of empire," the remarkable one told story of latinos in america. to guatemala,yond

dominican republic, mexico, and honduras. this documentary is yours for $150. for a $100 contribution, if you call and might now, you can get the book. one gonzales has written the book on which this film is based. together, $150. perhaps you want to send a set to the public library, high school, college library, prison library. the number to call is 866-359- 4334. on to themove dominican republic and "harvest of empire," but in order to them -- to do that, we need you to call. we are asking you to call in because this is remarkable. as the immigration debate rages in washington, it is also happening in every community

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on the dominican republic. please call in and fill up our phone lines. 866-359-4334. the american nation cannot, and will not permit the establishment of another communist government in the western hemisphere. >> i am here because the united states invaded my country in 1965, an illegal invasion, complete trunk of excuse to invade intimate -- dominican republic and crush our democratic hopes. we have lived the consequences of that illegal invasion, politically, economically, and in the bodies of those wounded and killed. we have been living here for over 40 years.

there have been two major u.s. occupation of the dominican republic. first was in 1916. the u.s. army trained a new dominican national guard. it hand-picked a former railway security officer to lead that and he then uses the power of the military to seize control of the government. he was the most horrific imagination of a dictator. kill people with impunity. he basically ruled the dominican republic for 30 years with absolute, total control. he routinely kidnap and

assault and the wives even of his supporters. , made itt his career extremely easy for american companies to do business in the dominican republic, but was a savage dictator. nine state even the government could not stomach his the ciaof operation, so join with disgruntled military officers to organize his assassination. >> for the first time in 30 years, the people of the dominican republic are breeding the sweet air of liberty, and the streets are jammed with celebration. [music] >> 1963, you had the election of a liberal, social democrat,

who attempted to institute new social reforms. but his government did not last long, only a few months into his term in office, there was a military coup. popular turn, started a resurrection that led to the u.s. invasion of the dominican republic in 1965. when the rebels finally agreed to lay down their arms, the u.s. government scheduled new elections, but it also allowed he right hand man of trujillo to run in those elections. he would go on to win those elections. the problem was there was enormous retraction -- repression on the former administration, killing on an

almost daily basis. so the united states than began allowing large numbers of former dominican rebels to come to the way, again,s as a of using migration as a safety valve. thousands of dominicans started to come to new york city. tothey said we are coming the united states, whatever that meant. i thought we were going up the road to some mystical place. when i finally saw a map of how we -- how far we traveled, i remember being astonished and literally terrified. standard was your phraseology a military guy that would check his children's hands and jews and hair before we left the house. we had to tie our shoes a certain way. i lived in what i called the littered the dictatorship of our house. when i moved to new jersey, it

was a crazy time. i immigrated in 1974, a few months before the fall of saigon. this was not a place that was very welcoming. i found myself facing a tremendous amount of racism and bigotry, not just from white americans, but from black americans, and latinos. think of any -- every immigrant child in the country. if it were a lot to tell the real emotion and truth of their experience here, people with discarded. we make immigration a more horrific experience than it needs to be. i feel as a country, we are in a dream, where there are no mistakes, there is no evil, we are always good, we hurt no one. you cannot grow if you do not admit mistakes. all those hundreds of

thousands that sneak into our country could be diseased. >> illegal immigrants are attacking our culture and way of life. >> you are watching "harvest of untold history of latinos in america. we are asking you to go to the phones and stand up for independent media. it is an on inspiring, educational film like we have never seen, go to the roots of immigration in this country. it deals with cuba, mexico, the dominican republic, guatemala, el salvador. the rockwell as well. we urge you to call 866-359- 4334. -- nicaragua as well. maybe you are from one of these countries or you are just interested. we ask you to go to the phone right now, 866-359-4334.

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4334. now we want to go back to "harvest of empire" to the section on guatemala that is so relevant today. as a former dictator that came coup, this mana was tried in the last few months and was found guilty of murder, crimes against to manatee -- humanity. this man was tried in the last few months and was found guilty of murder, crimes against to manatee -- humanity. acord has set aside the verdict, but the trial can happen again. these trials are not easy they often indicate that the current government may be involved. that is certainly what is going on in guatemala, so there is a lot of fight back. we urge you to go to the phones. if you want to see what happened in the background, why the

people of guatemala have attempted to try their former dictator. 866-359-4334. make the call that makes a difference. as we return to the film "harvest of empire." pick one day to where u.s. foreign policy toward latin america went wrong, the date would be 1954 in guatemala. that was the beginning of this terrible, terrible attitude the nine states develop towards latin america, particularly towards central america, where change became our enemy. [speaking spanish]

>> guatemala was one of the few countries in latin america after world war two actually experienced a period of democratic rule. the president was determined to reduce poverty by affecting

major land reform in guatemala. owners controlled 75% of the arable land. those, the united fruit company was the largest, with some 600,000 acres of property. it was such a powerhouse, owning its own railroads, shipping lines. it really was more powerful than any government throughout most of the 20th-century. became, latin america the incubator for all of the great american multinational companies. principles in the government, secretary of state under president eisenhower, his brother, the head of the cia, had both been partners in the main law firm that presented the

united fruit company. we couldeling was that easily overthrow this progressive government and make it easier for the united fruit company and other businesses to operate in central america. got heavily involved in managing public opinion, of the the image president as a crazy radical. was a systematic effort, mobilization of financing, opposition forces, until the government was overthrown. allcious repression of progressives and supporters of the government ensued. guatemala began to establish a new pattern whereby the united

states government used covert operations, employed local proxy's to destabilize and overthrow governments in the region. >> it is a great day for the liberation leader as the populist demonstrates their joy from been rescued from the tyranny that prevailed during the tyranny pure the end of the civil war and more important, the end of another attempt by the kremlin to get a foothold in the new world. >> after the overthrow, you had the beginnings of a civil war. people were picked up on the streets in the middle of the night, kidnapped, assassinated. you have the growth of a guerrilla war and of the government's efforts to counterinsurgency. as the rebels retreated into the countryside, they built up big

support among the my and and other people who had always been discriminated against by the guatemalan government. the civil war when from the 1960 cost to the 1980's. as it escalated, the government responded with resettlement campaigns and a genocidal war against them. >> [speaking spanish]

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linty be alive. let's go to the trailer of th "harvest of empire." the streets of our country were taken over today by people who do not belong here. >> immigrants come with a culture of criminality. >> they put a strain on our social security, health care. school never teach us in that the utility a presence here is the direct result of our own actions in the latin american countries and caribbean over the decades. thousands of porter reiskin were recruited to come to work in the u.s. >> the feeling was we could overthrow this progressive government and make it easier for the united fruit company and other businesses to operate in central america. >> from the very beginning, the west depended for its labor on mexicans. >> are due to a communist?

>> wait for history. history will say who we are. >> i have never seen anything like el salvador. what was going on there was the slaughter of the innocent. >> when you finance and train a gain of uniformed butchers, and they made in the wholesale killing, people do not emigrate, they flee. >> the instability we have contributed to creates the kind of instability and disorder that leads to more immigration. >> i believe in the idea of amnesty, and even those who may have put down roots, even if they may have entered illegally. >> the reality is, america is changing. the majority of the people will trace the origins not to europe,

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