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Havana, Dec 12 (Prensa Latina) The National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) will grant its Titon Award on Tuesday to Bolivian filmmaker Jorge Sanjines, one of the references of Latin American cinema, the organization confirmed on Monday on its social networks.
National Deputy José Luis Martiarena from the province of Jujuy s Frente de Todos party of President Alberto Fernández Thursday submitted a bill whereby bank deposits would be nationalized “to reform the financial system.”
Argentine filmmaker Fernando “Pino” Solanas dies from coronavirus at 84
Argentine filmmaker Fernando “Pino” Solanas died in Paris on November 6 at the age of 84, a victim of the COVID-19 pandemic. At the time of his death, he was Argentina’s ambassador to UNESCO, appointed by the Peronist government of President Alberto Fernandez.
Solanas was born in Buenos Aires in 1936 during the Great Depression, in a period of Argentine history known as the “Infamous Decade” (
Década Infame) characterized by military coups and the threat of coups, political corruption and economic misery for the masses.
Fernando Solanas (Guadalajara Film Festival, 2008)
These tumultuous years also brought into being an organization of radical intellectuals known as FORJA (Fuerza de Orientación Radical de la Joven Argentina Force for the Radical Orientation of Young Argentina), which opposed British and US imperialism. Fernando Solanas was influenced in particular by FORJA, as well as later by