Since its premiere in some cinemas in Uruguay and Spainthe movie The Snow Societydirected by Spanish Juan Antonio Bayona and distributed by the platform Netflixwhere it reached first place among the most viewed in the world, did not leave anyone indifferent, not even the Uruguayan political arc.
The dramatic film based on the book of the same name by Uruguayan writer Pablo Vierciand in turn based on the documentary of the same name by the Uruguayan Gonzalo Arijónrecounts the accident of the Flight 571 of the Uruguayan Air Force (FAU) in the Andes mountainsmore precisely in the Glacier of Tears, in Malargüe (Mendoza Argentina)on October 13, 1972.
50 years after the accident, and with the recently launched commemorative coin “Miracle of the Andes” by the Central Bank of Uruguay (BCU)Uruguayan politicians took advantage of the occasion to refer to the work and the fateful event.
Of all of them, the one who generated the most stir with his statements was the Broad Front senator Mario Bergarawho commented through
Bergara He pointed out that “despite” their social condition, “we are all proud that they are Uruguayans.” The criticism for his comments did not wait.
He nationalist senator Sebastián Da Silva expressed through the same social network that the film represented: “Uruguay, friends, rugby, courage, determination, training, leadership and faith,” but he came out against Bergara ensuring that this “politicizes everything in order to exist”, and that the legislator of the Broad Front (FA) “Singing murgas does not exempt him from enjoying what he defines as elite boys.”
The senator and presidential candidate for the National Party (PN), Jorge Gandinihe responded to Bergara saying that it is not “a question of class,” and that the Frente Amplista “should not justify feeling national pride in the epic of those little kids.” He mayor of Rocha, Alejo Umpiérrezalso a member of the PN, posted: “Tell me it’s a parody account.”
He presidential candidate for the Colorado Party (PC), Robert Silvastated that the comment of Bergara brought validity to the thoughts of the former president José Batlle y Ordoñezwho did not believe in the political struggle between the “well-off” and the “proletarian” class, but between the “reformist” and the “conservative.”
“Maybe there was something in the writing that was not happy”
For its part, this Monday Bergara He defended himself against criticism at a press conference, acknowledging that he had a good intention in his message, since the story of the Andes “moved him all his life.”
“What I tried to incorporate is that, regardless of things that one has heard that have to do with the social origin of the majority of the boys who had to live that tragedy, they have given us a lesson in values that makes us proud to be Uruguayans together with them,” he noted.
“Perhaps in the writing there was something that was not happy, it could be, but that is the spirit with which I wrote that and tried to vindicate a story that always moved me,” he concluded.
Source: Ambito
