De la guerre froide à la guerre verte (Green Is the New Red)

In modern Latin American history, there is a direct link between the anti-communist repression of the 1970s and the current crackdown on human rights and land rights defenders. Across the continent, with the support of the United States, political opponents of right-wing dictatorships were kidnapped, tortured and murdered under the banner of Operation Condor. Today, economic power in Latin America is held by multinational corporations, particularly in the soy industry. Their enemies are indigenous peoples and landless peasants who claim the right to land and are therefore persecuted and criminalised as terrorists, or killed by hired assassins. Filmmaker Anna Recalde Miranda searches for the roots of this violent conflict. Her journey between past and present is a character-driven exploration that sheds light on the genealogy of the current ecological disaster. Tactics may have changed over the past 50 years, but the structures remain the same: landowners and multinational corporations protect their interests with the help of the police and the army. The shadow of the condor still looms over the Latin American continent.