# \[Home movie: Recovering American and Puerto Rican Narratives from the Caribbean, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina and Peru\]

Synopsis A home movie circa 1970 by Carmen Vázquez and Antonio Vázquez on their trip to several countries in Latin America. The film documents their visit to Rio de Janeiro and Paraguay, with footage of the Iguazu Falls. The video also shows the cities of Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Lima (Peru). Collection description This film (Heydari_0016) is part of the collection Recovering American and Puerto Rican Narratives from the Caribbean . This media belongs mainly to the Vázquez family. Much of the footage was captured by Lt. Col. Juan Vázquez, and his family. He acquired movie and photo cameras during his military career and on the way to the Korean War, where he was a commander with the Korean Military Advisory Group (KMAG). He had also been with the decorated Borinqueneers (65 de Infantería) regiment, and then returned to Puerto Rico. His was one of the first citizen movie cameras on the island. Lt. Col. Vázquez was given the honor of being the translator and liaison for President Franklin Roosevelt when he visited Puerto Rico in the 1930s. There are Army brass and political figures in the material. His son Dennis Vázquez also served in the Army, specifically in Vietnam and he testified in the My Lai trial. Carmen Vázquez is the family historian and has done a good job of archiving and preserving the media, and over generations added to the collection. The recorded media reflects cultural and historic significance in the Caribbean and the mainland. U.S. Army families in…

- Kind: Home movie
- Year: 1970
- By: Carmen Vázquez
- Genres: Travel
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/ALCF_Heydari_0016)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: what its record states (its uploader's public-domain mark, or a licence not shown to be its rights holder's) leaves its US term to decide, and it is dated 1970; under US law a work of that year is free only on facts the site does not hold for it (its US renewal records, or its own country's term on 1 January 1996 for a work published abroad), and otherwise its US term runs to the end of 2065. Unclear is not offered.