December for Secretos, Prison for Alvarez
Hello everybody, well once again I take my pen (well, my keyboard instead) to give you some update concerning the fabulous adventures of Secretos de Lucha. It is fabulous indeed, fabulous to know that just 2 days after the first screening of my film in Uruguay, within the first edition of Atlantida's documentary film festival, Atlantidoc, this fantastic news fell on my desk: the general Gregorio Alvarez, who was the chief in command of the army from 1978 until 1979, then in 1981 became the first military dictator of the Uruguay (Bordaberry was a civilian, and stayed as a president from 72 and then as a dictator from 73 only until 76), the general Gregorio Alvarez as I was saying, is now in jail, charged with the crimes of disapearing at least 20 uruguayan civilians during his period in command. On Monday December 17th 2007, one year and one month after his colleague Bordaberry entered the prison, General Alvarez entered Piedras Blancas' special jail where he'll stay until t