Punk en Latin America Collection

This collection of zines and books is for institutional acquisition. For individual titles for independent people, you can reach out directly to the organizations. Proceeds go towards Redes Ayuda and Provea to help finance initiatives for immigrants and political prisoners.

9 zines (most of them silkscreened), 4 books, one silkscreened broadside, one cassette, and ephemera.

We have teamed up with Rafael Uzcategui to curate this selection of materials and make it accessible through university libraries across the USA and Canada. Titles mostly cover Venezuelan punk, Latin American anarchism, and social movements. Techniques include: xerox, offset, silkscreen, digital printing, etc. This collection also includes extra materials, like ephemera, that are free of charge and that might not be reflected in the group photograph.

“When the Sex Pistols’ album 'Never Mind the Bollocks' was released in 1977, Venezuela was one of the six Latin American countries with a democratic government. A year earlier, in 1976, the State had nationalized the oil industry. For this reason, it had a political and economic situation different from other countries in the region, not exempt from social problems of all kinds. In 1978 the band Kamara de tortura appeared in the city of Maracay. In 1980, the PP’S group was formed in Caracas. Both started a path that would be followed by other bands, modifying the pop-rock scene of the country. During the 80’s and 90’s, punk bands would be the soundtrack of the crisis of the governance model that had been created in 1958, when the former dictator fled the country in an airplane. Today, Venezuela has returned to authoritarianism. However, the new generations of punks have left the territory as forced migrants. When the future is uncertain, they look to the past for inspiration.”

Uzcátegui is a sociologist and the Co-Director of Laboratorio de Paz, an NGO dedicated to promoting democracy and human rights in Venezuela. Previously, he was the General Coordinator of PROVEA, another Caracas-based NGO focused on defending economic, social, and cultural human rights.

Redes ayuda es una ONG venezolana que se dedica a defender derechos fundamentales como la libertad de expresión y el acceso a internet.

Naufrago de Ítaca es un proyecto editorial que cree en  la urgencia de crear en medio del desierto impuesto. De estimular comunidades de afectos y deseos compartidos, con canales alternativos de expresión, difusión y convivencia, promoviendo circuitos de vida en medio de la pulsión de muerte y conformismo.