Hey I think this is what you are looking for. for some reason I only
could find the film on 16mm but as to my research most local colleges
have it on file.
You can find the film, "Blood of the Condor," in New Yorker Films.
They have it. Their address is: 16 West 61st Street, New York, New
York 10023 Ph: 212-247-6110
The following is my source and where I located the item.
I hope this is able to help on your search.
The following suggestion is a bit off point, but...you may want to
track down a 1969 Bolivian film directed by Jorges Sanjines, "Blood of
the Condor," which was set in a fictitious Latin American country and
denounced the involvement of a U.S. Peace Corps-like agency engaging
in sterilization abuse. I saw it 20 years ago and remember being
impressed.
From Christine Ehrick chris.ehrick@uni.edu 19 Mar 1998
It is hard to locate these days, but you might try and locate a copy
of the Bolivian film, "Blood of the Condor,"(made in the early '70s, I
believe), which deals precisely with the topic of sterilization of
Andean women.
From Thomas A. Abercrombie taa2@is6.nyu.edu 20 Mar 1998 [Cross-post from H-LatAm]
On "Blood of the Condor": This is a powerful film produced by the
Sanjines group, depicting a Peace Corps operation for the
sterilization of indigenous women. It has had a significant impact on
Bolivian politics (leading to a plank in the platform of the MRTK
indianista party denouncing family planning programs as an ethnocidal
yanki plot), and led to the expulsion of Peace Corps from the country
for many years. They are back now. It should be noted that the Peace
Corps did not in fact run a sterilization program. Instead, an
unfortunate event churned through the rumor mill (which includes the
press) until the government was forced to act, which substantiated the
rumors in the public eye. As far as I know, the following is what
actually happened:
An idealistic volunteer, besieged by Andean women seeking information
on birth control (this part of the scenario is familiar to all who
have done fieldwork in the countryside). The volunteer referred one
woman elsewhere, and she was in fact sterilized, as I recall from
published accounts by Peace Corps volunteers and directors. What I do
not recall is where I read those accounts. One, I think, was in the
Bolivian Times (an English language paper in La Paz), perhaps in 1995.
Incoming volunteers learn the story and avoid dispensing birth control
information.
In 1988, rumors circulated wildly through the country about an
American couple who had purchased an infant in the countryside, then
cut it open to stuff it with cocaine to smuggle back into the US.
Rumor led to press reports, and then legislative action, a law
requiring both parents' signed consent on a license before children
could travel on the highways. Officials then boarded buses and trucks
inspecting such documents for many months before the scare died down.
As it turned out, the source of the rumor was a short story published
in the literary section of Presencia, a respectable La Paz newspaper.
From Raysa E. Amador amador@adlibv.adelphi.edu 20 Mar 1998
You can find the film, "Blood of the Condor," in New Yorker Films.
They have it. Their address is: 16 West 61st Street, New York, New
York 10023 Ph: 212-247-6110
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