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Premium Episode 120 - Paranoiac Films 12 - State of Siege and the Tupamaros pt. 2 - “Everyone Dances or No One Dances”, Cuban Intelligence, the Mormon Tupamaro, and the Mitrione Family, feat. Dr. Pig Bodine
🕑 Added 2024-01-25 14:43:08 +0000 UTCToday I'm rejoined by Dr. Pig Bodine aka CJ (@pussy___teeth) to continue our discussion on the 1972 film State of Siege by Costa-Gavras. We open with a discussion on the death squad as a general concept and in its specific applications in Uruguay.
Then, we discuss exactly why the Tupamaros were so effective and, despite that, why they were brought down so quickly. As it turns out, they were brought down due to the same factors that made them so effective: espionage and infiltration. We discuss both Cuban, Uruguayan, and CIA intelligence. I introduce Manuel Hevia Cosculluela, the double (or triple) agent embedded within this story.
Then I tell the story of the Mormon Tupamaro within the story of the incredible jailbreak from the Punta Carreras prison of 1971. After, we discuss the infiltration against the Tupamaros by fascist drug and weapons smugglers.
We talk about the JCR, the Junta Coordinadora Revolutionaria, and place the Tupamaros within the continental revolutionary context. Finally, we cover the downright cocaine cowboy shenanigans of Mitrione's son. Believe it or not, however, we are not done with the MLN-T.
artwork by @DEEP_RED_BELLS
Songs:
Death Squad by Sacred Reich
Por una Cabeza by Carlos Gardel
Falling From Sleeves by Calexico
Abre los Ojos by Los Muertos de Cristo
Sprawl by Calexico
Miami Vice Intro by Jan Hammer
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Comments
can you do one on Confessions of a Dangerous Mind ?? i always think of the weird connections between chuck barris and rodney alcala with him going on the dating game and the fact that he was a student of roman polanski as well.
Scott Siegel
Fantastic series, so much to watch and read after this one.
isn't it though
NYCM&AHole
lol joining the FBI to uncover the US conspiracy feels like Fox mulder vibes
FamilyGorgeous
calexico is so great
