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La requisa (The Embargo)
Martín Boege
Mexico, 2003
35 mm | 23 min | BW/Colour | Spanish
Production: Departamento de cinematrografía Universidad Veracruzana
Photography: Alberto Anaya
Editor: Martín Boege, Emilio Portes
Music: Erando González
Sound: Matías Barberis
Sinopsis
In 1991 the Mexican federal government embargoed the Veracruz Harbour Labour Union buildings and sold them to a private company. The union members lost their jobs. Some committed suicide; others are still fighting for what was once theirs.