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El Regreso: A 2013 film about a 2004 Venezuelan drug massacre you never heard of |
2023-12-09 |
[ARCHIVE.PH] Alas the film is in Spanish without subtitles or English dubbing. You should have a basic working knowledge of Spanish language to follow event depicted in the film. The film is based on the 2004 massacre of a Wayuu Indian village on the Caribbean Sea coast, which killed between 12 and 40 unarmed villagers, and scattered and wounded the rest. The star of the film is a 10 year old girl who flees the attack, winding up in a border town without money or resources. After befriending a woman on a bus, she is sold as a sex slave, but subsequently escapes after her captor gets into an argument with another, slightly older girl, The two, her newfound friend and her, after a time and some personal problems become friends. They witness one of the drug gang Bad Guys murder her aunt. Eventually, she makes it back to her village only to find it deserted. Says Wikipedia: The BahÃa Portete massacre (Spanish: Masacre de Bahia Portete) was a massacre in the Colombian town of BahÃa Portete (municipality of Uribia), in the Department of La Guajira on April 16, 2004. It was perpetrated by paramilitary groups of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) Wayuu Counter-Insurgency Bloc led by alias "Jorge 40" killing 12 people and the disappearance of one. Some 600 people were displaced against their will and took refuge in neighboring Venezuela.[1] You can read about the Wayuu here. You can read about the film (translated from Spanish) here. The film is available on Tubi The dubbing is in Spanish since the indians used their own language. |
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