Etiqueta: Revolution
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Ghetto Brother
GANGS OF NEW YORK meets WARRIOR. Ghetto Brother tells the true story of Benjy Melendez, a Bronx legend, son of Puerto-Rican immigrants, who founded the notorious, multiracial gang, the Ghetto Brothers. From the seemingly bombed-out ravages of his neighborhood, wracked by drugs, poverty, and violence, he led the historic Hoe Avenue Peace Meeting, which brought an end to the violent gang…
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Aramburu
The crime that divided a country. The origin of Montoneros 29th May 1970, Buenos Aires, plain daylight. A group of men in their twenties dressed in army uniforms show up at the house of the Argentinian President, Mr. Pedro Eugenio Aramburu. One of them, Fernando Abal Medina, tells the President: “General, you are coming with…
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Saga President by Surprise (Saga Presidenta por sorpresa)
President by Surprise | Suddenly Disobedient She wanted to be class delegate but became president of the nation. Marta Chacras is 13 years old and she was never interested in politics. However, after a quarrel with her biggest enemy and classmate, Héctor Rufián junior, the son of the nation’s president – and although she…
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The Silence Has Arrived (Ahora llega el silencio)
Two options left: to give up or to fight. Astrea never gives up. Overnight, people over 22 years old die for no apparent reason. This tragic event, known as “The Silence”, has spread chaos throughout the city, leaving only children and young people. The population has been segregated into different sectors and tribes. Nobody knows…
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Women (Mujeres)
The rebellious Mexican women who changed the curse of History. In the 1970s, in front of the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, an old woman sells the tourists ancient photos: photographies of women. A young poet realises the seller is Nahui Oli, a Mexican artist, writer, pianist and model who used to shine…
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Goodbye Boys (Adiós muchachos)
Adiós muchachos are the memoirs of the author himself during the Sandinist Revolution: a social movement that in 1979 put an end to the Somoza dynasty in Nicaragua. Sergio Ramírez took part in the rebellion and fought against one of the most cruel and corrupted dictatorships in Latin America. Furthermore, the author also explains…
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Captain César Sánchez’s Saga
Where crimes meet psychological complexity Years after Bianca Rossana Micussi’s disappearance (World of Shadows, 2011), captain César Sánchez is re-hired in La Ciudad in order to work on the death of Cuco Mondongo; a pauper whose corpse was found in strange circumstances. Colonel Hernández Padrón feels that Sánchez fits in the required…
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The Invisible Witness (El testigo invisible)
After years of absolute silence, the only witness of the death of the Romanovs will tell the truth. Leonid Sednev, who worked as a chimney sweep for the imperial family and later on as a kitchen helper, was only 15 the night of July 17th, 1918. Those were the latest hours of the Romanovs, who…
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The coup d’état of Guadalupe Limón (El golpe de estado de Guadalupe Limón)
Can the tenacious enmity between two women trigger a revolution? In The coup d'etat of Guadalupe Limón we witness the gestation of a popular uprising and its culmination in a bloody coup d'etat where it is difficult to distinguish the heroes from the puppets and the epic gestures of the tragicomic ones. And at the…
