"AUGUST In Latin America, it is wintertime." "Confirmed seven cars." "There's the eighth." "Over." "Plaza de Garibaldi." "Nothing." "379, I read you." "Still nothing." "Confirmed." "Over." "Here's car 52." "Sector 7 control." "Request schedule." "Confirmed." "Over." "Forget the schedule." "Continue." "Get all the vehicles, one by one." "379, I read you." "Patrol 25 calling Headquarters." " This is Headquarters." "Do you read me?" " Yes." "Headquarters to Patrol 25." "Go ahead." "Apparent age: 50 years." "Dark eyes, fat." "I think that he is an American, Philip Michael Santore." "White hair, impregnated with a coloured substance." "He was in a car that was stolen yesterday." "It is a Cadillac 251798." "Second projectile: 9 millimeters with copper casing." "Entrance wound: abdomen, left side." "Rising trajectory, slightly oblique, hitting the intestine, the stomach, the diaphragm, the heart, right ventricle, the aorta." "I see another wound, inflicted shortly before death a gunshot, perfectly dressed, well-healed." "The Chamber has been summoned in an emergency meeting in order to consider declaring a day of national mourning." "Present deputies: 103." "Absentees with justification: 12." "Absentees without justification: 32." "Having reached the quorum, the session is open." "The Government proposes the following decree:" "Article One:" "It is decreed that today is a day of national mourning on the occasion of the death of Philip Michael Santore, civil employee of the A.I.D. and citizen of the United States." "Therefore, public services, the schools, the banks and stock-market must stop all activity." "Article Two:" "The funeral will be paid for by the State." "Who votes against?" "Who votes in favor?" "It's unanimous." "The Presidency invites the Assembly to keep a minute's silence in honor of Mister Philip Michael Santore." ""... when, suddenly, two men dressed in white appeared, and said:" ""Town of Galilea, why do you stand watching the sky?" "This Jesus that has been taken from you will return in the same way that you have seen him going to heaven."" "We speak to you directly from the cathedral, where the funeral is being held to commemorate the death of Philip Michael" "Santore." "Overwhelmed with grief, Mrs. Santore is surrounded by her older children." "The youngest still doesn't know that his father has died." "They attend the ceremony the Council of Ministers, the heads of all the Armed Forces of the country and all of the Diplomatic Corps." "It's a shock to observe that the seats assigned to the priests and to the university bodies are empty." "We hoped that the Archbishop would pronounce the funeral oration, but we see now that it has been delegated to the Papal Nuncio." "The Archbishop does not attend the ceremony." ""We implore his eternal rest, he was a husband and an affectionate father," "We beg the eternal one to reward him for being an innocent victim and a martyr." "Philip Michael Santore knew misery and dedicated his life to fighting it." "And he was able to save many young people, turning them in decent citizens." ""This fallen victim of terrorism and of violence, of this sudden action and fatal violence , of this fury that blinds and murders that, from last Monday, has returned to afflict to our city." "MONDAY" "The keys to your car, please." "Come with us." "Quickly." "Lady, please." "Yes?" "But what...?" " What's happening?" " Tupamaros." "We need this car." "We are armed." "Open the door." "Expropriation." "Move over." "No, this can't be true!" "Again?" " Ah, we've already had you...?" " Yes, you've already had me" "To rob the Chase Manhattan bank." "The expropriation..." "And today, what is it?" "He'll read it tomorrow in newspapers." "Same as us" "Police." " We need this car." " Yes, Sir." "We need this van for a job." "Don't make a noise" "Tupamaros?" "With me you do not need that." "But I want to say something..." "I do not agree with your methods, speaking politically." "And in practice?" "Right now?" "Which way?" " That way or that way?" " That way." "Hello." "We are armed." " What do you want now?" " We're going for a ride." "You know this?" "You will be able to report the robbery to the police." "And the van?" "The police will find it today or tomorrow." "You know this." " We are going to return.it" " Yes, I know already" "A walk and soon I report it to the the police." "Be careful with the brakes." "And second gear is bad." "The keys!" "Shit!" " Who is it?" " Telephone company." "There he is." " What do we do?" " Take a look" "They are just ahead." "We'll carry you" " It is not necessary." " That's not true" " I can walk." " We prefer otherwise" " It is for your security, no?" " Exactly." " There he is." " Yes, he's there." "Mr. Minister, what do you think of this kidnapping?" "What does the United States think?" "Mr. Minister?" "Do you think this act will embarrass the country?" "Do you think they'll ask for a rescue?" "Or to free the political prisoners?" "There are no political prisoners in our country!" "Only common criminals that rob banks and steal cars, they kill police and they kidnap people." "A photo." "Hasn't our complicity benefitted terrorists?" "Brazil is concentrating troops on the border." "Is this a coincidence?" "An official communiqué will answer your questions ... morning that has ended with the kidnapping of Fernando Campos, Consul of Brazil," "Anthony Lee, Secretary of the embassy of the USA and Philip Michael Santore, citizen of the USA." "and official of the A.I.D. in our country." "Mr. Anthony Lee has been able to escape." "Any questions?" "Do you believe the government, and in particular the Minister of the Interior, is going to take measures in order to confront a situation that has already lasted six years and has become intolerable" " Intolerable for the government." " For the country!" "It is the government that is intolerable for the country." "The Exceptional Powers law was invoked in agreement with Article 168 of the Constitution." "It only has to last 60 days, it was invoked with that condition." "The 60 days lasted for more than 2 years." "That law continues being the instrument with which we handle the situation with responsibility" " According to you, the Tupamaros..." " That word is prohibited by the law." "We offer you our hospitality." "Respect our laws." "We call them the "innumberables"." "They're terrorists!" "Excuse me" "I only wanted to say that, according to the communiqué more than a hundred "innumerables"" "participated in the operation." "But the information, the testimonies speak of a maximum of ten for each kidnapping." "Ten by three: thirty." "What makes up the 70 others?" "It is not only a technical question it has to also do with the space, that is to say, the political effect of the organization." "I do not see how criminals can have a political influence." "Please, Mr. Lucas..." "Those... "terrorists"" "they have tried to kidnap the second secretary of the American Embassy." "And that makes sense, from their point of view, clear." "Also the kidnapping of the Consul of Brazil obeys a certain logic, but... that Mister..." "Santore," "Philip Michael Santore..." "Why?" "He is not an official personage." "Nothing, under no notion, could we impute direct or indirect responsibility" "None of us knew of his existence..." "So who really is this Mister Santore, and what did he do in our country?" "Mr. Santore is one of civil employees of our Agency." "What are its functions, exactly?" "We have multiple activities." "We intervene in the different sectors of industry that exist here we are interested in agriculture, mining, education," "the forest industry and scientific research." "In Latin America, we cooperate with the Alliance for Progress, but we also work in all the free countries that ask for the economic and technical assistance of the USA." "by sending them American technicians." "Is that right?" "Yes." "Mostly, because they have the necessary qualifications." "But also we were in charge of the training of local technicians." "In fact," "It allows them, and they allow a foreign government, to control all the country, to know its resources, its wealth..." "We cannot know its problems without the aid of specialists, nor to help them to solve them." " I would say the opposite." " That is to say?" "That is a detail... but it's USA which needs assistance and not these other countries." "At least, that's how I see things." "It's paradoxical..." "The precision." "When drinking beer, taking an aspirin, washing the teeth, cooking in an aluminum pot, using a refrigerator or heating a room every day, my fellow citizens contribute to the development of your economy." "That contribution takes all its significance when we enter the military domain." "But I do not want to waste your time" "We spoke of that gentleman... of that Mister Santore." "Someday we will speak of the aid in order to settle it once and for all." "I agree totally." "Well... that Mister Santore..." "What were... what were his functions within A.I.D.?" "In what type of activities did he specialise?" "In communications." "He was a specialist, an expert." "Is that him?" "That's him." "It's when the Alliance for Progress" "They gave 300 cars to the police, no?" "Yes." "So they also look after our police?" "There is... an official agreement between both governments." "Yes, I understand ... yes." "And..." "Mister Santore worked here?" "In this building?" "No" "The A.I.D has... it has premises in the Police Headquarters." "The A.I.D collaborates with our police in order to improve the forces of public order, for security in questions of traffic, for communications and other administrative problems." "And that Mister Santore..." "Spent a year working here, true?" "Yes, more or less." "And before that?" "He came from the United States?" "No he was in other Latin American countries" "Always with A.I.D.?" "Yes, as communications expert." "Do you know those countries?" "What?" "Do you know those Latin American countries?" "I believe, among others, the Dominican Republic and Brazil." "So, Mr. Santore, before coming to our country, was also in Brazil." "During the military coup." "You got that wrong" "I arrived two years before, in '62." "It takes time to prepare" "In Latin America no." "In the USA you are quicker." "In seconds, you'll assassinate a President." "You were in Brazil as an advisor before, during and after the coup d'etat." "Exactly." "Based on an agreement between my Government and the Brazillians." " The democratic government of Goulart." " Yes." "In '64, Goulart is overthrown by the military, they suppress the Parliament, the parties, press freedom, the unions." "You stay there," " The agreements were still in effect" " I know." "Johnson even congratulated them hours before the coup." "Political necessity." "And for the moral aspect, Cardinal Spelmann sent his blessing." "God is an American and takes part in coups." "And you?" "I don't take part in politics, I'm a technician." "Police technician" " Exactly." " And the police defend order." "Exactly." "The democratic order, or the order of the dictatorship?" "Yes, I know what that means and that it can be contradictory, but try to put yourself in my place." "I am a technician in traffic and communications, those are problems of democracies and of the dictatorships." "These are technical problems, naturally." "Naturally." "They consider an interrogation to be a technical problem." "If that's what you are doing" "And if it doesn't get results?" "Torture can be a technique that solves the problem of interrogation." "Ever heard talk of torture in Brazil?" "Of the "parrot's perch"?" "Of effective methods, of "hydraulics"?" "Of electroshocks?" "Do you know those methods?" "No." "What are you talking about?" "Techniques." "Do you know that torture happens in Brazil." "It is an immense country, unbalanced and with a tradition of violence." "Excesses can be committed, isolated cases." "It is probable." "Where they torture children so that the parents speak?" "I have read about such things in communist newspapers." "The bishops that denounced them are also communist?" "Who knows..." "In Sao Paulo, in Belo Horizontey, in Guanabara, Pernambuco, torture classes happen, with practical exercises using live subjects." "And you, the advisor to the Brazilian police, never knew anything?" "No" "Almost all of the police force has been formed by you and your colleagues." "The "New York Times" said that." "Not communists." "That's a typical connection of yours I've not yet had anything to do with it." "Do you know these people?" "Not as far as I know." "And these?" "No, I don't think so" "Are they Brazilians?" "With respect to this one, undoubtedly." "In effect." "Well..." "Do you remember them?" "Yes, it was two or three years ago." "The watch must do the talking now." ""A souvenir from your Brazilian friends"." "Are they?" "No, it is an official gift to A.I.D. They represented the military command." "That is, to the military police." "Probably." "But they aren't my friends." "They've been denounced as torturers." "By the Bishops?" "By their victims." "And also by the Bishops." "They are many coincidences." "You believe in coincidences?" "Generally, no." "Well." "That's enough for today." "Smoke?" "Thanks." "Would you like to drink something?" "Whiskey?" " Here only we have water." " I'll need some anyway." "What's happening?" "It's a general alert." "What's with the wound?" "Is he hurt?" "A little." " It is strange, is bearable." " It was an accident." "Yes." "Lots of nerves and little experience." "Perhaps too young..." "Breathe." "Stronger." "The young doctor who treated me thinks that the lung is not affected." "We'll have to take an X-ray In order to be sure." "You're not worried." "You'll understand later." "I'm not worred." "I've a good reason for that." "I trust his intelligence" "I think you also know your job well" "I'm not so sure, looking at the situation" "It is Dolotal." "To make you sleep" "Well, it happens." "Watch out, cover yourselves." "The new man must abandon materialism in order to return to the spiritual." "Pope Leon XIII, in his "Rerum Novarum"..." "He condemned the liberalism that caused the industrial revolution and originated the greed for money." "I do not condemn anything, I ask for return to the Christian civilization, to the principles of the Gospel, to the love of ones fellows." "To forget materialism, money." "Our aims are almost the same, mister consul." "But we asked you about the extremists and the Brazilian police whether they collaborate with those here with, for example, the "death squads"." "I don't know what he's talking about" "But you belong to the organisation "Tradition, Family, Property "?" "Here no, in Brazil." "Here I'm not political" "Whoever is a fascist in his country is a fascist everywhere" "Not, here I'm not..." "I only represent the interests of my government." "Really there's no contradiction." "What have they done to you?" "What did they want?" "To speak." "Have they tortured you?" "We only spoke." "What did they say?" "They want... to kill to us, right?" "I don't think so." "Those are not their methods." "And they take too many precautions." "You were also transported by stretcher?" "Yes, yes." "Yes, good." "The stretchers,the padded walls, the newspapers, the hoods..." "They don't want us to recognize them, or the place." "It is clear that you have a future." "No, it is not true." "I know it, they've let me know" "They want to kill me." "I don't know why." "I..." "I never..." "I have done anything bad." "Is a crime to be Brazilian diplomat?" "I take care of my family, of my work..." "What can they accuse me of?" "Perhaps not you..." " Who, then?" " Your government." "What do they blame my government for?" "The tortures, for example." "Papers, please." "Those of the patient and the the young lady also." " Are you Dr Sanchez?" " Yes." "What happened to him?" "A heart attack." "It's serious." "It is possible he can be saved if we arrive in time." "I'm sorry, I'm carrying out orders." "What hospital did they take him to?" "To Santa Maria." " Good evening." " Good evening, Dr Francia." "Emergency." "A poisoning." "TUESDAY:" "We've just received the following communiqué in relation to both diplomats kidnapped yesterday." "Communiqué of the national liberation movement" ""Commando Liber Arce"." "The foreign nationals that we have captured," "Fernando Campos, Consul of Brazil and Philip Michael Santore, citizen of the USA and A.I.D. official, whom the police and the army are hunting for and will not find, are detained in the people's prison" "The health of the Consul of Brazil is satisfactory." "The American civil employee was hurt during the action by a gunshot." "The diagnosis is the following one:" "bullet wound entering to the right of the breastbone and exiting in the left auxiliary region." "His pleuropulmonary system is normal." "There is no evidence of pneumo-hemothorax." "There is no cardiovascular damage, normal heart and pulse." "Another communiqué will be distributed later" "We continue the interrogation of the prisoners..." "And after Brazil, you left for the Dominican Republic in 1965." "You're well informed." "In April 1965, marines invaded the island." "And you?" "I do not agree with the term "invade"." "But to be brief, I arrived later, in May." "Always on behalf of the A.I.D.?" "Yes." "Communications, traffic." "Exactly." "Mr. Santore... in May 1965, the Dominican Republic was in civil war." "On the one hand, the constitutionalists." "On the other, the civil and military junta created, armed, financed by the C.I.A and supported by 40,000 marines." "And you were there to take care of traffic?" "Exactly" "What type of traffic?" "Tanks?" "The A.I.D was there due to international agreements." "We reorganized the police and we restored order." " What type of order?" " Civil order." "That is, against the chaos, robberies and looting." "You mean the order of the United Fruit Company and the other Yankee companies in Latin America?" "We inevitably end up speaking of politics." "Inevitably." "You stayed there two years, yes?" "Yes, from '65 to '67." "During that period they killed hundreds of democrats, political leaders and unionists." "An international commission blamed those murders on the police." "And you were there in order to reorganize it?" "There were many international commissions in the Dominican Republic" " Coincidence." " Luckily, you don't believe in it" "Yes." "When they are repeated, I think." "We analyzed them as objective facts" "Would you like to drink something?" " Yes, a little water." " There is also milk if you want." "WEDNESDAY ... I want to express my indignation as a citizen and parliamentarian." "The Government must say clearly who asked for the services of that foreign civil employee..." "Very good!" "Bravo!" "... who pays him, who authorized him to function within the police and what did his functions consist of, exactly?" "You're angering yourself, Mr. Martinez." "The methods of that innumerable armed organization serves a purpose." "It is evident." "This violence which angers everyone is more useful than the democratic system you say you defend." "It has raised the question of the independence of our country." "I don't think that you can teach me about independence," " nor of civic-mindedness" " No" "But since they speak about our independence, you ask about all those generous and disinterested Americans specialists, technicians, lecturers, advisors, that each day, they send to various organizations," "IMF, United States Information Agency" "Inter-American development bank, American Health Organization," "American Institute for Free Labour Development," " UN Development programs..." " Enough." "... Agricultural Commodity Development Assistance" "Peace Corps, all those people that populate our country... those people who populate our country and all Latin America with our consent..." "Who works in the factories?" "The workers!" "Ask the workers if they prefer unemployment!" "The Americans would not give us money for nothing!" "Mr. Fabbri, lets speak of your friends, the Russians." "I do not try to understand ideology, but geography." "The Soviet Union is far away" "The Yankees are even inside the police headquarters." "In the police headquarters!" "In the police headquarters!" "They appeared in 1962." "Nobody knew nor who were, nor what they did, but they had an office in the headquarters, without a plate on the door, and they had contacts with senior officers." "In 1966, its presence becomes official and then its head officially arrives" "Robert Bain, Lieutenant Colonel of the Special Forces" "The Police immediately puts at his disposal one Agent Bardéz, who is more than a driver or a bodyguard, more than a simple policeman, since he freely frequents a place where ordinary policemen are not admitted:" "the US Embassy" "How did you get..." "From whom did you get that data?" "We are less distracted than you" "Or rather, that does not interest us, unlike you, who is distracted." "Thus, in '66, this Robert Bain arrives." "He is also an expert of the Agency of International Development" "What's he an expert in?" "A Lieutenant Colonel of the Special Forces, what could he develop?" "If that Lieutenant Colonel has come to do what I know and what you also know, that they have come to do," "I do not believe that they are doing good" "We continued existing, we're better off than before," "I'm sorry for you." "And continuing to exist and develop, were those that cannot be named, but they represent, nevertheless, a force whose methods we did not approve, but that represents a revolutionary force... a revolutionary force... and a retort to the oppression and to the corruption," "to the privilege..." "Silence!" "Please!" "Silence!" "Lieutenant Colonel Bain didn't do his job well and for that reason they replaced him by Philip Michael Santore, the one Mr. Martinez spoke of" "Mr. Santore was head of police in his country." "Shortly after, he travelled around Latin America before arriving to our country." "In '69 you arrived in our country." "Yes, in July." "You had an office in the Headquarters..." "Yes, the Office of A.I.D Technical Assistance" "And another office in the Embassy..." "Exactly." "Exactly." "In fact, I only worked there." "I went to the Headquarters every fifteen days." "So you see, I've never involved myself too much in the affairs of the police." "Only you directed them" " I am not as important as you think." " You are." "You are, and you went much more often to the Headquarters." "A parking space was reserved for you next to the police chief" "You arrived every day between 08:45 and 09:00 and you had your own office on the same floor as himy" "Do you know Captains Pes and Romero?" "Well enough." "They've been in contact with Technical Assistance." "Since when have you known them?" "Since I came here" " A year more or less." " No" "You knew them in '67 in Washington, The International Police Academy." "Technical progress has allowed a man to land on the moon" "But, even with that progress, the authorities have not obtained, in the fields of crime prevention and criminal investigation, to meet the challenge of antisocial activities that threaten the free world." "Many criminal acts are the work of irresponsible elements that pass as revolutionaries." "Their subversive activities and their insurrectionary objectives amply reflect the principles of nationalism." "Due to that lack of respect towards humanity, the responsible nations have realised the need to end terrorism so that law and order rule again." "The civilian police, when forming part of the first line of defense of society, have an obligation to understand the problem better in order to be able to solve them or to fight them." "To that end, our Academy was established." "So that the best representatives of all the police of the free world can meet, to interchange ideas, experiences and to arrive at a deeper, more global, vision of the serious problems that society faces nowadays." "Perhaps yes, Lopez and Romero had been to the Academy." "It is possible." "Many people enter in the Academy." " About thirty from this country." " 67 in four years." "You say that you did not know them in Washington." "And nevertheless they were your students, they were in your class." "Your point of view, your experiences..." "Don't try to be too intelligent." "Act like you were speaking with your friends, your wife" "I am not married." "That's already part of our data." "With sincerity and with no inhibitions." "Between us there mustn't be secrets," "We tell everything, even what we think about our governments." "Mainly, because governments change and the police stays" "Well." "These are the well-worn subjects, those that you know well." "Political situations, economic situations, communist party, unions, student movements, guerrillas, urban guerrillas, in your country..." "My country..." "It is a tiny country with great problems." "In the communications network that you specialise in" "It is rather a network of information." "You are the information specialists." "It is very difficult, even for a policeman, to enroll in the Academy." "A policeman can become a revolutionary." "And vice versa." "Not a policeman really." "You belong to an individual species?" "In some ways, yes." "Just like my Chinese or Soviet colleagues." "We don't know them." "You work in our country." "The case is that our vocation is the order and therefore, we do not like change" "We are conservatives." "Here, many become police from hunger, not by vocation." "Yes, but they become policemen." "Others, through hunger, become thieves." "Do you think that hunger allows them to choose?" "I believe that a man, a man of truth, always chooses" " You no?" " No" "We don't really believe in men of truth." "We believe in men, Mr Santore" "In the rightness of equality, in the possibility of organizing ourselves into a more just society, happier..." " I also believe in all that." " No, you don't believe in it." "You accept inequality, you defends privilege." "At heart, you believe in property." "Your moral code is the exploitation of the majority by a minority." "Exploitation." "The big word." "So why?" "What do I gain on a personal level?" "The illusion of being a boss and not what you really are, that is to say, a servant." "THURSDAY" "Communiqué no. 2" "Movement of National Liberation." ""Commando Liber Arce"." "Firstly: the state of health of Fernando Campos is still satisfactory and Mr. Philip Michael Santore recovers quickly from his wound." "Secondly:" "We continue the interrogations in order to confirm the guilt of both prisoners." "Thirdly: the Movement of National Liberation has arranged to release the Consul of Brazil and the civil employee of the USA in exchange for the liberation of all the prisoners accused or condemned of political crimes or linked to political crimes" "detained in the prisons of the capital and the countryside." "Fourthly: the countries to which prisoners can be deported can be Mexico, Peru yor Algeria." "The text of the communiqué that has been published regarding the kidnappings, constitutes on the part of the authors of those crimes a new blow to the established order, aggravated by an extortion attempt on the legitimate power." "Secondly:" "the authors of the text try to demand from executive authority that it removes from accused and condemned, lawful judicial procedures." "That is to say: they want the constitution to be violated by those who have the task of upholding and respecting it." "Mr. Minister, what do you think of the communiqué of the Minister of the Interior?" "It is a communiqué of the Department of the Interior." " Does the minister think the same?" " The minister does not have any opinion." "Without another point of reference, the communiqué represents the position of the Government." "It will only be possible to speak of such a position when consultation has taken place between the different ministries." " When?" " It seems to me that it is the normal behavior in a democracy." "Don't you agree, Mr. Lucas?" "Yes, in a democracy..." "Make way." "Hello." "The Director is waiting." "For you too." "They want to register at the University." "The Director has refused, but even so they will do it." " That's why he came?" " No" "The Government has constitutional problems." "You don't say!" "They have banned three political movements, they have forced nine newspapers to close down they have arrested thousands of people for going on strike they have requisitioned employees and workers in order to force to them to return to work..." "And still you come here to speak to me about the Constitution..." "If I understood correctly, according to the Constitution, neither the President, nor the Government has the right to release those prisoners." "Indeed" "But the United States, Brazil, the Church, national and international public opinion they're objectively forcing President and the Government to accept the exchange and to release all the political prisoners." "So, what can the President do?" "The only possibility it is to present a decree of amnesty to Parliament." "This, according to the Constitution, is the only way to annul a sentence." "Very well, but for various reasons different interests, both left and right, all want to end with this President." "In my opinion, most of the Parliament will take advantage of this in order to vote against the amnesty." "And what happens then?" "The exchange won't be carried out." "But we said that the President is forced..." " Then, he must resign." " You see?" "Of all our problems, it is most important." "And you think that this is possible?" "If all the convenient contradictions happen, whoever replaces him will have to accept the exchange." "Why are these young people so stubborn?" "They're defending the autonomy of the University" "Stay seated" "Alfredo!" " Where are they?" " Bastián, take a look" " Where?" " Here." "They have taken the district." "Here, close by." "Prepare the consul." "Pretty car." "It's old, but it still works well." " I've seen others these days." " Not so pretty." "Although we have been in many garages." "You will have searched a lot of them." " Yes, garages, houses..." " Sergeant, look at this." "It seems to be empty at the back Take a look,it sounds empty" "And with the bookcases..." "as if they had blocked it up." "Good, if it's blocked up, he's blocked up." "Isn't it a little boring, all these searches?" "To begin with, it was fun." "But soon..." "Going up and down stairs for 4 days" "I'm fed up." "I understand." "And it's worse that you've got to check one by one" "Well, we've seen everything now." "Let's go." "Wait." "We stay." "Close it" "Were they on top of us yes?" "They were close by." " What a useless bunch" " No information." "Exactly." "And that means they have." "The appropriate technique, the appropriate material..." "You're crazy!" "The continued use of torture instruments has been demonstrated by the Investigating Commission." "Remind them that this Commission of representatives is comprised of all the parties of the Parliament." "Its conclusions, voted unanimously, were as follows:" "First: it has been demonstrated that in our country torture has become frequent, systematic and habitual." "Second:" "They have resorted to using torture against people who, for being innocent, have not been subjected to a legal judgement, and against people who, when subjected to legal judgement, have been declared innocent." "Third: the main victims of these methods are students and union leaders." "Fourth: the explanations of the competent authorities, that they deny the existence of these facts or declare that they don't know them are unacceptable." "Then to accept them it would be to admit the existence, within our police, of parallel organizations, independent and uncontrollable." "That's it, Mr. President." "Gentlemen, all this has happened in our country." "All this happens to the press in our country." "All this must stop in our country." "Gentlemen of the Government," "I do not know if they were or weren't knowledgable about all this." "But in either case, they no longer have the right to govern our country." "Let us demand a presidential election." "Exactly, that's our intention." "Nevertheless, the tortures continued." "You know that, since you were advisor to our police." "You keep implicating me in things that were none of my business and that I totally ignored." "But your students at the Academy have been accused of torture." " That does not demonstrate anything." " Yes." "Simple coincidence..." "one more." "How many were sent to the Academy since you arrived?" "The last one was the eighth, I think." "But I didn't send them, the Government did." "37 exactly, selected and recommended by you." "Here is the programme of the Academy." "In five months of classes, you hardly spoke of communications and traffic." "It's futile to continue speaking of communications and traffic," "Isn't that true, Mr. Santore?" "Very well." "We didn't talk about it much." "Yes, you spoke a lot about revolutionary war, of Algeria, of Cuba, of Vietnam..." "You talked a lot about strikes, of demonstrations, of trade unionism, of explosives..." "Would you like to see it?" "I know about it." "As far as the explosives, there's a place in the Academy that administers a specialist course in Texas, an abandoned village near the Mexican border." "There were 8 policemen who specialized in explosives." "Deputy Commissioner Fontana." "Captain Piñatores" "Deputy Commissioner Suárez." "Commissioner García" "Deputy Commissioner Panizolo." "Commissioner Torresi." "Captain Bardés." "A provocative attack, by the police" "Commissioner Benítez." "A provocative and intimidatory attack." "That was the specialist program." "Yes, I know." "What was this fascination with explosives for?" "They are the weapons of terrorists." "It is necessary to learn to know them." "They don't learn to defend themselves against bombs, but to use them." "It is you who needs the terrorists." "Why?" "Why do they want them?" "Good morning, Mr Rector." "Is it serious?" "Do you know Enrique Machi?" "I know him." "You were seen every week in one of the nightclubs." "You know him perfectly well and we do too." "An old student of economics, he never obtained a degree, but organised the first fascist group in the university." "He opened three nightclubs, and he liaises with one Johanna, a young woman who has a red VW, secretary of the American cultural attaché" "You know much more about that gentleman than me" "That is not possible." "The file you have is the most complete one in the country." "That is another myth." "But you knew that he is a fascist?" " We never spoke of politics." " It happens." "And what did you speak of, every week?" "Of women?" "Why not?" "For that you paid him?" "That's not very friendly since I'm no longer young." "In any case, I never paid him." "Machi and his fascist organization is very expensive." "Their members are killers, thugs, professionals of violence." "Their services cost lots of money." "Perhaps... but I never paid them." "Mr Pero Machi takes care of the transactions involving cars of the American Embassy workers" "You're only asking me about foreign cars!" "It's a way to finance an agent-provocateur" "Why?" "So that these people serve him?" "That a policeman frequents a nightclub does not prove anything." "And the fact that it was me doesn't, either." "Naturally" "Nor frequenting a photographic laboratory." "Do you know Agent Bardés?" "You know him very well." "We do too." "Ex-Agent Bardés, expelled from the police for robbery." "All the newspapers mentioned it." "He's changed." "A photographer, he continues doing what he did, supported by the police, but without compromising it." "It is the principle of the "Death squad"." "To eliminate adversaries without the problems of the Constitution, of laws, courts." "Captain Lopez, for the police, along with Fontana," "Captain Riggi, of the navy," "Colonel González, of the Army," "Commander Piñatores, of the Air Force" "And Bardés, the confidante of Bain, your predecessor." "So as to serve the secret High Command, this organization of extra assassins at our service, what does it want?" "What will they do in the future?" "Is your son there?" " What do you want?" " Police." "Come with us." "He hasn't done anything." "He's no longer involved in politics!" "Let him go!" "He's only been free for a week!" "Indeed,we don't agree with it." "Well, you know him?" "No, I do not know him." " You do not know him." " No" "But you recognize yourself?" "No" "You do not know him, eh?" " No!" " No?" "We know them they are Tupamaros." "Come." "Is that the Martinera?" " Yes." " It happens" "Everyone leave, it is only a check," "Everyone leave, please." "Attention..." "I repeat." "All those that are inside section 20 must leave immediately." "You are not just any employee." "You are not an employee, or a mere specialist." "You are a leader." "You directed Belo Horizonte police, in Brazil," "And those of the Dominican Republic and ours." "You do it directly, and through men you send to Washington, where they learn to betray their country." "You say that you defend freedom and democracy." "Your methods... are war, fascism, torture." "Agreed, Mr. Santore?" "You are communist subversives!" "You want to destroy society, the fundamental values of our civilization, the existence of the free world." "You must be fought at all costs." " I have nothing else to say to you." " Same here." "I would like to know..." "What type of civilization are you fighting to create?" "Really?" "It is a weakness." "For a civilization where people like you would not make sense." "FRIDAY Communiqué no. 3" "Mr. Fernando Campos, Consul of Brazil, is and has demonstrated himself to be the worthy representative of the savage dictatorship of Brazil." "Mr. Philip Michael Santore, citizen of the USA, civil employee of the A.I.D., is and has demonstrated to be during the interrogations the person in charge, in our country, and in others of Latin America," "of an organization which, parallel to the police and concealed by it, is dedicated to activities of espionage and repression by means of methods that they contemplate the political assassination, and torture." "If the Government rejects our proposal to release immediately all the political prisoners, the accused prisoners will be brought to justices." "It's that house." " Is it safe?" " Yes." "Excuse me, Mr. President," "Go back to the beginning:" ""..." "I would like my people to understand."" "Very well." "We will already speak." "I would like my people to understand the responsibility that falls upon me." "I adamantly hope that this distressing situation does not have a tragic end." "But the affair, in spite of its international implications, since the victims are not subjects of our country, is strictly a police matter." "Like the President of the Republic," "I have a supreme duty to defend the right, to defend the institutions, to defend lawful justice since that is the only one that can judge and convict." "SATURDAY MORNING" "Mr Snow, please" "Yes?" "What's happening?" "He doesn't speak our language." "What's happening?" "We are the police." "We have orders to detain Mr Snow." "He must come with us to the police station." " A simple formality." " Okay" "Perhaps I should call his secretary." "It's better not to call anybody." "Do as you're told." "The keys." "It's preferable that you keep quiet for ten minutes if you don't want problems." "This is no longer funny." "It is heartbreaking." "The Government no longer governs." "It responds to problems with violence." "But the other violence, the one that it has triggered, it is much more intelligent." "This morning, when the Minister of Agriculture was told of the new kidnapping, the President urgently summoned his ministers, the deputies, the big landowners." "The Economics Minister, politician, banker, president of 4 companies, 2 of them American," "The Minister of Foreign Affairs, politician, banker, he controls 70 companies, representing the Rockefeller group." "Their companies have 200,000 hectares." "The Vatican Ambassador, head of a group that controls 85 companies," "19 of them foreign." "Minister, proprietor of two newspapers." "Ex-minister, Politician, two banks." "6 companies, 2 of them American." "The Herbert family, bankers, they controls 300,000 hectares, 7 companies, 3 of them American," "A politician, a Minister, a former Minister." "More bankers." "More industrialists that were former ministers." "Ministers who are bankers or industrialists." "Industrial bankers that will be ministers." "And finally, the Minister of the Interior, the only one that is neither a banker, nor rich, and whose task is to defend the rich ones and the bankers." "If they are all gathered it is, to take an important decision, very important." "And given events, there is only one possibility... the resignation of the President and the exchange, negotiated for the new president." "This one for the front page." "Wonderful, he is the President." " Where did you get it?" " Look at the caption." " Was he also a boxer?" " A mediocre boxer." "Middleweight." "He became a mediocre journalist and soon... in mediocre parliamentarian." "Who'd could have imagined that he would be a mediocre president?" "Everybody." "A purely rhetorical question." " Is the biography ready?" " Here it is." "We can only wait for the official notice of resignation." "Are you, Ogo?" "Yes." "Who is it?" "Inspector Ravallo" "Are you still living in 8th of October Avenue with the family of your brother?" "We are your prisoners." "Behave yourselves." "Lopez, has anyone removed that bullet from the nape of your neck?" "The handcuffs." "And now, we will wait for Hugo." "How were we discovered?" "A very good blow, Lopez." "Who are you?" "We waited for the others, for the meeting." "This one is of the old guard, Captain." "I believe so." "Come, we are going to chat a little... while we wait for the others." " It's the police." " Go back." "They don't tell us anything, what we are going to write?" "What is better, to write or to try to understand?" "Ladies and gentlemen, I am here with the Police Commander and of Captain Lopez, who has managed to arrest the rebels, and I'm going to interview them" "Will this capture have an effect on the luck of the three kidnap victims?" "I hope so" "How?" "It's not possible to say, yet." "By all means, I don't know." "that they have... the kindness to lead us into the place or the places in where they're hidden." "In any case, we will ask them." "In any case," "Do you think that they know those places?" "We have good reason to believe that these are the people that direct the organization." "Could you tell us how you managed to carry out the raid?" "How did you catch them, Captain?" "With patience..." " And something of luck, perhaps?" " No" "It has not been luck." "But to find out the place where the kidnap victims are held how will that happen?" "So the terrorists know where the prisoners are?" "Get ready, we're leaving" "That's enough already !" "Quick!" " Get ready, we're going, Mr Snow" " What?" " Are you here?" " Yes, right here." " Are you Santore?" " Yes." "Get ready, we're leaving" "What's happening?" "You too, get ready" "SATURDAY EVENING" "Communiqué number 4" "First: in case of criminal charges, of coaxed confessions, of tortures, or of death of our fellow prisoners, severe measures will be taken of retaliation." "The people in charge of the forces of repression and the oligarchy will answer for the physical well-being of our comrades." "Second: the ultimatum has ended without the government answering our proposal." "Therefore, the Movement of National Liberation has consequently decided to execute Mr. Philip Michael Santore." "Third: the execution will take place 24 hours after the circulation of this official notice and if the government has not accepted our proposal of exchange." "SUNDAY You say that you defend freedom and democracy." "Your methods are war, fascism and torture." "Agreed, Mr. Santore?" "You are communist subversives!" "You want to destroy society, the fundamental values of our civilization, the existence of the free world." "You must be fought at all costs." " I have nothing else to say to you." " Same here" "Has it been cold tonight?" "A little." "And your wound?" "It is better." "We leave in 2 hours time." "Change again?" "Yes." "And the guy who took care of me?" "Now I'm the guy who takes care of you." "If you like, write to your family." "Yes, very well." "Any news?" "It's good." "Wait." "Victor." "A small table, please." "Thanks." "Perhaps you will be executed tomorrow." "We didn't think about it, we would prefer not to do it, not because you don't deserve to die, but because we would prefer another solution." "Did you want to use me for an exchange?" "Yes." "And we still want that." "There's still hope." "Let us speak a little." "It could be useful to me." "How?" "Not like you think." "But I know how they think the others, their reactions." "It is very important in a deal." "If you think you can influence them, you can write..." "You can write to the ambassador." "I will do it, but first, explain the situation and what has happened." "Something just happened, yes?" "Sit down, please." "Until yesterday, the situation was balanced." "We captured yesterday another employee of the A.I.D." " Who?" " An agronomist." "The situation changed in our favor." "The government had to accept the exchange or to resign." "The situation is that he was on the verge of resigning... and it was then the police arrested certain comrades." " How many?" " Some." "lmportant?" "All are important." "The police agreed that they are very important." "And you're sure?" "In a certain sense, yes." " The government will not resign." " No" "They won't resign." "And it has blocked negotiations." "The Minister of the Interior has given out a victory communiqé 01:40: 20,647 -- 01:40: 23,002y And you have fixed an ultimatum." "Yes." " Does this only concern me?" " You're the most guilty." "Still we have 24 hours left." "Do you think we'll be able to do something?" "No." "I don't think so." "Does he think that your government will intervene?" "Given the situation, no." "It thinks you're more useful dead than alive." "Yes." "Yes, I believe so." "You are in a crisis, and they take advantage of it." "They will try to give you the coup de grace." "It's enough for them to take advantage of what you do" "They really do not know what we are going to do." "I do not know what you will eventually do, but I know what they will do." "Because they will do what I would do if I were in its place." "That is to say, nothing." "They have brought 100 FBI agents" "In order to protect the Embassy and to the American citizens." "The police no longer have their confidence." "And you do not have a choice." "If you kill me, it will be a cruel and impotent gesture." "If you do not kill me... it will be a sign of weakness... and therefore of impotence." "We have just a short time left." "If you want to write..." "Yes, I am going to write." "Not to the Ambassador." "To my wife." "Mr. Ambassador..." "Mr. Ambassador." "What is the position of your Government?" "Have you received a message from the Pope?" "For 24 hours, total silence!" "So that meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs?" "Do you think that there's any hope for Campos and Santore?" "A declaration, Mr. Minister!" "Gentlemen, please!" "They know that the Government is deliberating." "I excused myself to talk with the Ambassador." "Mr. President!" "A little patience!" "When the meeting finishes, there will probably be a press conference or a communiqué" " Do you really want to save them?" " This is a serious subject." " There they are." " They're here!" "You can see that I fulfill my promises." "But we'll try not to uselessly prolong the matter" "I will say that from the beginning that the Government has not modified its position." "Do you want to say that the communiqué of the Minister of the Interior of the other day is still valid?" "Exactly." "The communiqué of the Minister of the Interior it reflected and reflects the point of view of the executive." "Like all self-respecting democracies." "So be it." "And your personal point of view?" "The Government has adopted the only possible position that it could take to defend its sovereignty and that of the other countries involved." "Have you spoken with the Ambassador about the ultimatum of the rebels?" "What do you think?" "Then.. yes." "And how has the Ambassador reacted?" "In that case, you should have asked the question better." "In any case, the attitude of the Ambassador of the USA, as well as the one of the Ambassador from Brazil, has been of understanding and respect towards our sovereignty." "And they bear in mind that the decision of the executive authority it is only the possible one." "Mr. Minister, the ultimatum runs out within twelve hours." "According to the terms of that ultimatum," "Philip Michael Santore will be executed." "What is the question?" "Nothing." "There is no question." "I have received the report." "Then, you know the situation." "This is not a sentimental problem." "It never was" "This is a political problem" "Yes or no?" "I am not safe." "He certainly deserves it." "But I do not know what is better for us." "We're not the only Latin Americans." "You understand?" "If we execute him, the press, the television, the radio will speak of his seven children." "If we did not execute him, the Governments will be strengthened, the revolutionary movements will be weakened." "We have started up a revolutionary mechanism without being able to make them respect it" "Or to see it through to the end ourselves." "You ought to have thought this through before.." "Precisely because of that, we're consulting you." "Yes or no?" "Yes." "I have received the report." "Then, you know the situation." "This is not a sentimental problem." "It never was." "This is a political problem" "Yes or no?" "Yes." "I have received the report" "Then you know the situation" "This isn't a sentimental problem" "It never was." "This is a political problem." "Yes or no?" "I had thought..." "The report explains the situation." " Yes or no?" " Yes." "I have received the report." "Then, you know the situation." "This is not a sentimental problem." "It never was." "This is a political problem." "Yes or no?" "No" "I have received the report." "Then you know the situation." "This does not cure a sentimental problem." "We didn't have one." "This cures a political problem." "Yes or no?" "Yes." "What about the other two prisoners?" "They are not directly responsible, particularly the agronomist." "He is really an agronomist and a good man." "We will release them." " We have majority of "yeas"." " We also." "We also." "Unanimously "yea"." "And you?" "Majority." "It needs to happen quickly." "We just have a short time." "STATE OF SIEGE" "Translated by Aim Here, May 2006"