Juan Carlos Altamirano: “People Dogmatically Clinging to a Doctrine Like Marxist-Leninist Make Me Distrust”

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He grew up in a left-wing world, in exile. He lived in Cuba, in the former GDR and in London. Filmmaker and sociologist, Juan Carlos Altamirano bears a surname that condenses the history and political tensions of the last 50 years: Carlos Altamirano Orrego, his father, was the general secretary of the Socialist Party during Popular Unity. And from that position he promoted the policy of “advancing without translating.” But from a young age the s…