Maria Auxiliadora Lara Barcelos
February 25, 1945 (79 years old) in Minas Gerais, Brazil
Maria Auxiliadora Lara Barcelos (Antônio Dias, March 25, 1945 - West Berlin, June 1, 1976) was a guerrilla member of the organization Vanguarda Armada Revolucionária Palmares – VAR-Palmares – who participated in the armed struggle against the military dictatorship installed in Brazil in 1964. On November 21, 1969, she was imprisoned and brutally tortured, being released in January 1971 and sent to Chile after the swiss ambassador Giovanni Bucher was kidnapped by the armed guerrilla VPR which damanded that political prisoners were set free in exchange for the ambassador's life. She died by suicide in 1976.
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- 2022 · O Grande Irmão: O Dia que Durou 21 Anos 2 as Self (archive footage)
- 2018 · Clandestine Soul as Self - Archive Footage
- 2014 · Retratos de Identificação as
- 2013 · Seventy as Self (archive footage)
- 1978 · Quando Chegar o Momento as Herself
- 1971 · Brazil: A Report on Torture as Herself
- 1971 · It's Not Time to Cry as Self