Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...COLONELS, of course, are merely busboys for the Pentagon, literally busboys. Only Brazil is the proper comparison, or South Korea, something like that. That's the proper comparison. There's nothing nationalistic about this regime, nothing at all. It's a sellout. This particular regime, you see, may be used to develop relationships with colonels in North Africa to make infiltration also on other fronts, in other lands. So, it seems to me, then, that the resumption of military aid-you can talk forever about that...
...Brazil, for instance, has emphasized the safety of the victims, and met kidnapers' demands for the release of jailed revolutionaries-but in so doing has all but turned the gates of its prisons into revolving doors. Uruguay, by contrast, has refused to negotiate for the release of any foreign hostages. The policy is a risky one. U.S. Police Adviser Daniel Mitrione was murdered last August by his captors, the Tupamaro guerrillas. British Ambassador Geoffrey Jackson has been held by kidnapers for more than two months, and last week the guerrillas seized Attorney General Guido Berro Oribe for "questioning." Nonetheless...
Death Squads. Meanwhile, the bodies of petty criminals keep turning up. The circumstances suggest the existence of Brazil-style "death squads"-gangs of policemen and others that round up and execute criminals who have eluded the law. Some Guatemalans insist that people with ten or more arrests are being disposed of "to help clear the courts of pending cases." On two occasions, police claimed the victims were killed "attacking an army patrol," an unlikely venture for inveterate pickpockets and drunks...
...birth of the Harlem Dance Theater stems indirectly from the death of Martin Luther King. At the time, Mitchell was directing the National Company of Brazil. King's assassination prompted him to ask himself what he could do for his own people back home. The answer: "Pay homage to the thing you do best." With the help of a Ford Foundation grant and the teaching skills of Karel Shook, the American-born ballet master of The Netherlands National Ballet, Mitchell was able to launch the Harlem company in the fall...
Rocha treats these conflicts between elites and masses in two other films about primitive religion in the impoverished northeast of Brazil, Black God. White Devil (1964) and Antonio das Mortes (1969) where the people are actually killed off during the fighting between the elite revolutionary cangaceiros and the beatos, the hired killers of the landowning aristocracy. Rocha deals with Warrior Saints and Dragons of Evil, cut off from the masses by their self-consciousness as legend and their mystical level of existence. Sebastiao, for instance, the revolutionary "Black God," seeks to "revenge the death of Christ with the blood...