Maria Auxiliadora Lara Barcelos
Birthday: 1945-02-25
Place of Birth: Minas Gerais, Brazil
Biography: Maria Auxiliadora Lara Barcelos (Antônio Dias, March 25, 1945 - West Berlin, June 1, 1976) was a guerrilla member of the organization Vanguarda Armada Revolucionária Palmares – VAR-Palmares – who participated in the armed struggle against the military dictatorship installed in Brazil in 1964. On November 21, 1969, she was imprisoned and brutally tortured, being released in January 1971 and sent to Chile after the swiss ambassador Giovanni Bucher was kidnapped by the armed guerrilla VPR which damanded that political prisoners were set free in exchange for the ambassador's life. She died by suicide in 1976.
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O Grande Irmão: O Dia que Durou 21 Anos 2
With confidential and unpublished documentation, the film shows the background and behind-the-scenes...
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Brazil: A Report on Torture
The filmmakers spoke to ex-political prisoners who had been tortured by the military government who ...
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Seventy
In 1970, Brazil was in the throes of a military dictatorship that lasted 20 years. Persecutions, arr...
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Quando Chegar o Momento
Her name was Maria Auxiliadora Lara Barcellos, but she was called Dora. She was 31 years old, born a...
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It's Not Time to Cry
Through the testimony of the victims of the Brazilian dictatorship, and the re-creation of the pract...
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Clandestine Soul
"Clandestine Soul" is a sensory and emotional biography of the Brazilian political activist, Maria A...
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Retratos de Identificação
Among the many victims of the military dictatorship that raged in Brazil from 1964 to 1985, a small ...
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