Etiqueta: Policy
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The Children of Morelia (Los niños de Morelia) – TV Series Original Project
During the Spanish Civil War, the government of the Republic accepted the offer of the Mexican authorities to take in a big number of children to take them away from the horrors of war. This is how Antonia, a Spanish school teacher who saw her students die in a bombing by the Nationalist faction,…
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The Shape of the Ruins (La forma de las ruinas)
An exhilarating trip to one of the darkest political moments in Colombia. In the year 2014, Carlos Carballo is arrested for attempting the robbery of the suit of trying to steal from a museum the suit of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán (political leader murdered in Bogotá in 1948) from a museum. Carballo is a tormented…
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Reputations (Las reputaciones)
The wrath of public opinion. A life altered forever. Javier Mallarino is the most influential political caricature artist of the country, a man able to cause the repeal of a law, to disrupt the ruling of a judge, to knock down a town mayor or to seriously threaten the stability of a Ministry, and…
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The Fourth Sword (La cuarta espada)
An immersion within the mind of the murderer that became a god. Abimael Guzmán was the most dangerous man in Peru, and the most lethal terrorist in Latin America. The day he got in jail, arrived the long-awaited end of the war between the government and the Shining Path, a terrorist group that caused more…
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Shooting Up The Sky (El cielo a tiros)
The children of drug cartels were the real victims. After twelve years without setting foot on his country, Larry goes back to Colombia, for they have found his father’s body in a common grave. His childhood friend, Pedro, picks him up at the airport and takes him directly to the Alborada celebration, a popular festival…
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Jack, Knight and King (Jota, Caballo y Rey)
A political satire about power, vanity, corruption… and a horse. Set in the Latin American dictatorship landscape of the 50s belonging to tropical tyrants that were corrupt, violent and usually eccentric. With the dictatorial regime of Rojas Pinilla in the Colombia of 1954, this novel is an analysis of power, vanity and corruption with a…
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The Ones in Saint Patrick’s Batallion (Los del San Patricio)
The story of the men whose morality made them move to the opponent side. The real story of John Riley and his colleagues, the irishmen who fought in 1846 within the side of the Americans during the Mexican-American War. They, who had escaped from hunger and the oppression in Ireland, could not remain submissive in…
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The Author of “Las Meninas” (La autora de las Meninas)
Revolution is pounding at the gates! There is no money for pensions, expired food is sold in the supermarkets, free medical assistance is over, and even drugstores are out of stocks. In the 2030s, the welfare state has disappeared and a populist party is governing in Spain. Europe no longer exists as such and international…
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Awaken – Original Project
Wake up, nothing is real. Mysterious disappearances are taking place in the USA once and again: a Boeing 747 crashed, and no bodies are found; a ferry without passengers beached in Monterrey; in a children’s baseball match in Detroit the audience disappears. The FBI investigations point to alien abductions as the main cause of the…
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Goodbye Boys (Adiós muchachos)
Adiós muchachos are the memoirs of the author himself during the Sandinist Revolution: a social movement that in 1979 put an end to the Somoza dynasty in Nicaragua. Sergio Ramírez took part in the rebellion and fought against one of the most cruel and corrupted dictatorships in Latin America. Furthermore, the author also explains…
