While “The Snow Society”the film directed by Juan Antonio Bayona, occupies the top positions in local and international views on the streaming platform. Netflix, one of the real survivors of the Andes tragedy, Eduardo Strauch, was involved in a confrontation with a Uruguayan senator who had described them as “rich kids”, in a failed attempt to send a union message.
Mario Bergara, senator of the Frente Amplio, Last Sunday he shared the news about the most viewed film in the world on his X account (formerly Twitter) along with the comment: “The epic of Los Andes was carried out by children from the richest sectors of society. Elite guys, without twists or nuances. However, we are all proud that they are Uruguayan. It is a story that always moved me, among other things, because of its hints of heroism.”
“In Uruguay there may be class misgivings and also awareness of class differences, but There is and should be no hatred or rift. For me, the difference is not small and it makes the particularities of this society that we have built,” completed the senator and presidential candidate. Just two hours later and without naming him, the deputy of the same space, Margarita Libschitz commented: “Some advisor told him ‘to win in the polls you have to be more controversial’ and there it is, goal tweeting and arguing with yourself”.
45 Old Christians Club rugby players crashed in the Andes Mountains in 1972
“Margarita, it seems that you have free time, you are nervous or some advisor sent you to criticize colleagues”, responded Broad Front senator Liliam Kechichian. Libschitz answered: “Liliam, as you say, I’m on vacation so I have a lot of time, but because of the love and respect I have for you, I’m not going to answer you here. Surely in a while you will regret your comment. Greetings and happy new year.” Seeing the internal confrontation and all the criticism that her analysis received, The senator wanted to clarify his intentions and reinforce the sense of unity that motivated him to give his opinion.
“Because an expression in my post about the history of the Andes led to misunderstandings (which shows that was not happy, particularly the expression “however”), I feel the need to clarify that precisely the objective was, in addition to showing my respect and admiration with that topic, avoid and not deepen any type of crack in Uruguayan society. If interpreted differently, I apologize and I hope this clarification is understood,” Bergara concluded.
Strauch: “It is a kind of spiritual retreat to return to the mountains”
However, the debate did not end there, as one of the survivors of the tragedy joined in repudiating his characterization of the 45 rugby players who crashed in the Andes Mountains in 1972. During an interview with FM PeopleThe architect Eduardo Strauch said that the definitions of “kids from the richest sectors of society” and “elite boys” were “stupid and regrettable.”. “Some of those who were on that plane, the families had money, others had nothing, others had little. ‘The Privileged of Carrasco’ is such a silly image. I feel sorry”Strauch expressed.
The survivor postulated that this idea is “generating a crack that never existed in Uruguay” and he reported that “in the world and conferences” he never received reproaches, but “always admiration, affection and gratitude.” “The few negative commentsstupid and unpleasant They have been Uruguayans. It makes you sad“, be sincere. “I feel sorry, not for us, but that they don’t see all the wonderful things about this human story. Instead of talking about that, we talk about stupidity, that ‘the kids of Carrasco are fine’…”, he elaborated, in reference to the neighborhood where he co-founded the Old Christians Club team that, aboard flight 571 of the Uruguayan Air Force, collapsed in Mendoza.
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Strauch spoke about his recovery, survival and praised the new film: “The other one is a Hollywood adventure story.”
“I processed all the suffering and today it was in the past. Now what I feel every time I go, and what is happening to me with the film, is that I reconnect with the emotions, the most important moments of my life, with the place where my friends dieds, where we create the snow society with nothing more than our mental, spiritual resources and those human capabilities that we do not know until we reach a situation like that. This does me a lot of good, It is a kind of spiritual retreat to return to the mountain“, Strauch said in another interview, with radio Mrs.
“The main reason, and the only one I would tell you, why we survived was the love of our families.. I think if it weren’t for that, we would all have let ourselves die. It was the easiest solution, in many moments we felt like giving up and dying. Without the slightest doubt, the objective we all had was a kind of desperation to get home and hug our loved ones. That was what saved us,” reflected the survivor and explained that, to achieve this, “we gave each other warmth”.
“We quickly made a kind of blanket with the airplane seat covers and We all huddled together, side by side. We were like puppies”, explained the architect who is also a painter, gives talks and wrote an autobiographical book titled “From silence”. Regarding the successful adaptation of the Spanish Juan Antonio Bayona who will represent Spain in the next Oscars, Strauch postulated that he “did it with great respect and meticulousness. The movie is impressive” and said that it is incomparable with “Alive” given that “this movie is on another level because it tells the real story, the other is a Hollywood adventure story“.
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