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An interview with Mexican documentarian Juan Francisco Urrusti, director of In Exile: A Family Film
15 minutes readKEVIN MITCHELL—”Much later in life, I found out about these backgrounds and views. As a child, I didn’t know that this one was a Communist and this other one was an anarchist, this one was a syndicalist, this other one a Catalan nationalist. So, yes, in a way, the film is shallow. It doesn’t go into some of the reasons why the Spanish Republic lost the war, but, on the other hand, it gives some of the background. As you said in your review, it doesn’t go deeply into the history or give an analysis of the political situation…”
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ANDREAS SCHLUTER—If the concerned EU members will in the end fall on their knees, all good and fine! If not and out of the resistance an “Old-World“ front may be forming with possible economic consequences also for the US, possibly also strengthening the efforts to break_the_Dollar-hegemony, then the moment might have come to finally get rid of Trump in favor of Pence waiting to become the next Neocon puppet!
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JOSEPH THOMAS—It is clear that Vietnam’s so-called opposition is in no way “nationalist,” and merely opposes Chinese interests in Vietnam because Washington opposes them. By taking US and European funding and carrying out Western directives, they are actively undermining Vietnam’s sovereignty, not upholding it.
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FRANK SCOTT—“Tens of thousands of Americans are in our prisons and jails for non-violent law breaking, like crossing borders illegally, and their children are left without parents. We demand these families be brought together and enjoy living in prisons with full access to the pleasures of family life.”