I watched this movie for a class I am taking at the University of Texas, and it is a good movie. However, people who use it as proof of US intervention in Latin America should check out the facts behind the movie. No one has ever provided any factual evidence that Mr. Mitrione, the actual person the Santore character is based on, ever was involved in torture. The leader of the Tupamaros, Raul Sendic, was released from prison in 1987, and he stated that torture had nothing to do with the Mitrione kidnapping and murder. He states that it was the riot control tactics Mitrione was teaching the police were the reason he had been kidnapped. He goes on to say that they were not going to kill Mr Mitrione, but keep him indefinitely. However, he and the rest of the leaders were captured, as is shown in the movie. Therefore the leaderless movement had no idea what to do, and killed him. This does not detract from the movie as a great work of fiction, however, obviously it cannot be used as any sort of proof of American injustices.
Review of State of Siege
