Sem dúvida, Santiago Álvarez (1919-1998, foto acima) realizou um dos documentários que mais nos iluminam sobre a Revolução Cubana, suas raízes e seus frutos: “A Guerra Necessária” (1980, 110 min, assista na íntegra). Também é um dos melhores filmes para se debater, com conhecimento de causa, a vida e...
“To kill oblivion with a little memory, we cover our chests with lead and hope.” SUBCOMANDANTE MARCOS, Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN). In: ‘Our Word is Our Weapon: Selected Writings’, Foreword: José Saramago (Nobel Prize In Literature) Published by Seven Stories Press (New York, 2003, Pg. 100.) PART I...
CHAPTER III – THE CLASH BETWEEN OBLIVION AND MEMORY “…there once was a man named Zapata who rose up with his people and sang out: ‘Land and Freedom!’ The campesinos say that Zapata didn’t die, that he must return… They say that hope is also planted and harvested. They also...