Word: uruguayans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Volunteers from places as diverse as Cuba and Thailand are streaming into enlistment posts just behind the Socialist American lines. Jose Garcia, who once was a member of the Tupamaros, the Uruguayan urban guerrilla organization, explained that the dictatorship in his country was withering away...
...Uruguay is not a thriller like his Z but a memorable portrait of dedicated revolutionaries hardened by their struggle against a police regime trained in torture and counter-revolution by the United States. Many of the film's details have been confirmed through smuggled documents and testimony of former Uruguayan police officials. Uruguay's military regime opposed the making of the film, of course, and it had to be made in Chile, where many of the film's most frightening scenes have doubtless since become reality...
...Moments after the Uruguayan Congress wound up a midnight session last week in Montevideo, radio stations began broadcasting military marches. While the city slept, columns of troops and armored tanks moved into the capital. The next afternoon, President Juan Maria Bordaberry, backed by his military overseers, announced on television that he had dissolved Congress and replaced it with a 20-member "Council of State" headed by himself...
...doctors, one Israeli and one Czechoslovak; a French diver, who will be responsible for repairs to the raft; and an Algerian oceanographer. The men include a Greek who will do the cooking and a cameraman who has not yet been chosen, along with a South Vietnamese photographer, a Uruguayan anthropologist and an Angolan priest, all of whom will have little to do but enjoy the scenery-and perform a variety of secondary tasks at the bidding of their female superiors...
...film of major significance: Costa-Gavras (Z, The Confession) powerfully indicts covert American action to support Latin American dictatorships. Yves Montand plays a character who represents Daniel Mitrione -- the AID officer killed by Tupamaro insurgents in 1970 -- but emphasized his kidnapping less than his previous activities: training the Uruguayan police, teaching torture, repression, use of explosives. The film is committed, not biased -- and based to a surprisingly large degree on public information. 1973. (At the Charles Cinema, Boston...