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Maria Auxiliadora Lara Barcelos
Minas Gerais, Brazil
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 – VA…
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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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2022
O Grande Irmão: O Dia que Durou 21 Anos 2
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2018
Clandestine Soul
Movie Self - Archive Footage
- 2014
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2013
Seventy
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1978
Quando Chegar o Momento
Movie Herself
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1971
Brazil: A Report on Torture
Movie Herself
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1971
It's Not Time to Cry
Movie Self
