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Today we're joined by El Güero to discuss the Costa-Gavras classic, État de Siège.
Based on the 1970 killing of an American official by the Tupamaro guerrillas in Uruguay, this film examines how police states backed by the United States in Latin America forced the hands of rebels.
We all know how this ended up for Uruguay: The following year, leftists formed the Broad Front coalition, which eventually got former Tupamaro/political prisoner José Mujica elected president.
But many countries suffered much deeper blowback from US intervention. Stay tuned for further film discussions in this series (next up, our dear friend Hesse is planning to join us for an Argentine classic).
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