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Green is the New Red, the seeds of the Condor plan
The 37th edition of the Amsterdam Documentary Film Festival is taking place from 14 to 24 November. Directed by Anna Recalde Miranda and co-produced by Lardux Films, the feature film " Green is the new Red " has been selected in this international competition. Dive into the roots of the Condor Plan
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Operation Condor, this secret alliance of terror, initiated by Augusto Pinochet in 1973, made official in 1975, conducted jointly by the secret services of the military dictatorships raging in Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay, is today widely documented with regard to the massive campaign of assassinations, acts of torture and disappearances orchestrated in these countries (1) of South America, against hundreds of thousands of political opponents and civilians . In particular thanks to Martin Almada, one of the prisoners of the Stroessner dictatorship who discovered the archives of the terror in 1992 in Paraguay, the cradle of Condor plan.This state terrorism, perpetrated with the tacit support of the United States, notably the influential Henry Kissinger, reached its peak from 1976 to 1978, and continued until 1981.
What is less known outside this continent, and which is meticulously recorded in the film "From the Green War to the Cold War", is the extent to which this multinational repressive company also exercised itself with farmers and environmental activists. How it was the beginning of land grabbing in South America. Thus laying the foundations of a globalized agribusiness model, without limits, polluting, destroying soil, groundwater, people, living things.
To cite just one example, Argentina is one of the five largest producers of soybeans in the world (corn, sunflower, sorghum, lemon). It is also one of the 15 largest producers of wheat, barley and grapes in the world. And one of the five largest beef producers in the world. The agricultural sector accounts for 61% of total exports. Less than 1% of landowners own 40% of the land.
In Paraguay, more precisely on the border with Brazil, where 96% of soya production is now transgenic, the director has carried out a great deal of research into this recent past, bringing to light little-known and sometimes buried history. Capturing the present with her camera, the Italian-Paraguayan documentary filmmaker has, at the same time, brought the present into the picture, gathering testimonies about both the peasants' struggles and the massacres of which they continue to be victims. The peasants are still the enemy from within, as are their peers in other South American countries: "The Condor is still flying", says Martin Almada. A long-time fighter and memory of the Terror of those dark years, the lawyer/writer left this world in March 2024, joining his wife Celestina, who was arrested at the same time as him and died at the age of 33 in Stroesnner's jails.
The bloody repression of opponents of this system continues in all these South American countries. In the name of defending this monstrous and ecocidal model, some 2000 ecologists and defenders of the land - trade unionists, peasants, Amerindians in particular - have continued to be murdered there since 2012.
The author, great-granddaughter of a farmer, founder of the Socialist Party, has unravelled the genealogy of this disaster, using eyewitness accounts and archives to extricate it from the complicit silence that surrounds it. She is conducting an unprecedented investigation into this economic model, which is both capitalist and feudal, and which was deliberately designed by the architects of the Condor Plan.
By placing it in its geopolitical and historical context, past and present, Anna Recalde Miranda explores the roots of this endemic violence, carried out with impunity by the big landowners, their militias and the state police forces.
For their part the countries that import agricultural produce from these areas pretend to be unaware of the real human and environmental cost of this trade.
Lasting 1 hour 45 minutes, this essential documentary will be screened on November 17 and 18 at the Pathé City* , before moviegoers can see it in french movie theaters on March 2025, 26th.
