Fernando suarez del solar

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Fernando Suárez del Solar

The filmmaker, whose most famous previous credit was the film September 11, — a documentary on the military coup on that date which overthrew the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende in Chile and replaced it with the brutal military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet — seized on the fact that two of the earliest combat fatalities on the U.

He had to cross two heavily policed borders — between Guatemala and Mexico as well as between Mexico and the U. Much against the wishes of his American foster father, who wanted him to stay and help build Guatemala, Gutierrez saw his future in the U. All he got in the end was the macabre distinction of being the first U.

He hooked up with Activist San Diego and the San Diego Coalition for Peace and Justice, and these organizations invited him to speak at virtually all of their anti-war rallies. In November he went to Iraq himself, insistent on seeing the place where his son had been killed, and brought back video footage some of which is seen in A Senseless Death and stills which he showed to San Diego audiences.

At the library showing, Fernando and his friend Mariscal both spoke after the movie, not only about the war but about the need to confront the deceptive strategies of U. During his presentation, he noted grimly that Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia and Canada all offer free higher education, while the U. With the economy down, the military is really having a field day.

One of the best things that happened to the U. According to anti-war activists, the military is using this information to target the poorest people in this country, as well as opening offices in Mexico, the Philippines and other countries to recruit them from abroad.