Uruguay: Tension in the city of Montevideo for the coup d'état. Report where journalist Cesar Mascetti expresses: - "As soon as the day dawned we got together with our team, we know what we had to live yesterday because of the press censorship and rigor we were arrested when we finished our first film report. number 1 of the Army located next to the Argentine embassy, ​​two rolls of veiled films and a Uruguayan reality that because of all of this we were left uncovered, which forced us to rethink the journalistic strategy with great secrecy by activating the camera zoom We will try to show the Uruguayan situation, we will deal with it if in truth we do not know if today we will have the same fate as yesterday.The dominant fear undoubtedly remains the incident unleashed on Tuesday afternoon, a gigantic demonstration secretly convened by the political and trade union organizations that operate in the clandestine The city was formed suddenly until it reached the order of 40 thousand people. Under a scream, freedom, occupied the sector of the 18 de Julio Avenue that runs between Independence and Libertad squares. Just 10 minutes those who ran between 17.00 and 17.10 were enough for Tuesday was noted as the most serious day of Bordaberry management. The action of the security force presided over by the use of blanks and followed by projectile firings seriously left 3 or 4 dead. The versions in that sense are imprecise, not so in terms of the number of detainees approaching 2 thousand. Today the newspapers appeared again, yesterday they had not done it. The dominant title is the appointment of the 4 new ministers of the Executive Power. It should be noted that there are two editions that were not published, those corresponding to the New Order and Popular; for them weighs a closure of 10 days for having inflicted the rules of vigor but certainly the most interesting title is found in this publication that is in our hands, Now: The march of mediation, that is a title of cover. Valdez Costa: find an institutional exit, decorous and peaceful. This information is related to the management of this edition that fulfills a commission composed of three Uruguayan notables, Drs. Valdez Costa, Gelsi and Malef. We now move on board a car along the avenue that is graced with the difficulties of the case because we were just saying that the presence in the place is going to have our material again requisitioned. In the field of this avenue, the legislative palace is heavily guarded by members of the police and the army. (Cesar Mascetti)
Date: 7/11/1973
Duration: 6 minutes 50 seconds
Film code: D-00248

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