Plains: Testimony of an Ethnocide (1971)

• 74%
• 1971
• Documentary
• Jorge Silva
• Marta Rodríguez

The film depicts the struggle of Rafael Jaramillo Ullua, who in the mid-60 organized a cooperative farming community in Planas. During this process were unmasked for indigenous mechanisms of exploitation and persecution they have suffered, by settlers and landowners, from colonial times. In 1970, the army killed and tortured a group accusing members of the cooperative of guerrillas.