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For Central America: A Radical Prescription (1986-10-02)
About this film
Mr. Ayau's university had been a tremendous success. Imagine: a genuine university, teaching everything from literature to engineering to biology, but teaching also the ideas of a free society--and all this in a country that has known very little of such a society. Mr. Ayau's "radical perspective" involves offering these ideas to his countrymen and their neighbors. Not the fastest-moving show, but a helpful look at a region that North Americans tend to regard as the home of bananas, revolution, and corruption. MA: "The State Department's intromission throughout Latin America has been very harmful. They really don't like capitalism. They blame Latin America's backwardness on capitalism and we haven't really tried it."
Directors & creators
Southern Educational Communications Association
Subjects
public broadcasting, AAPB, William F. Buckley Jr., Manuel Ayau, Firing Line, Central America, Latin America, United States Department of State, Free market economics, Capitalism, Economic development, Political philosophy, Universidad Francisco Marroquín
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