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The story centers on political prisoner Valentín (Diego Luna) who shares a cell with Molina (Tonatiuh), a window dresser convicted of public indecency.
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Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 5 June 2025
José Mujica—the former guerrilla fighter, political prisoner, philosopher, and Uruguayan President, known affectionately throughout Latin America as Pepe—died on Tuesday, at the age of eighty-nine.
—Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 16 May 2025
Before leading the country, Mujica spent more than a decade as a political prisoner under Uruguay’s military dictatorship, including several years in solitary confinement.
—Javier Hasse, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
Her husband, Sergei Tikhanovsky, is a political prisoner.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 1 Apr. 2025
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Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 5 June 2025
José Mujica—the former guerrilla fighter, political prisoner, philosopher, and Uruguayan President, known affectionately throughout Latin America as Pepe—died on Tuesday, at the age of eighty-nine.
—Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 16 May 2025
Before leading the country, Mujica spent more than a decade as a political prisoner under Uruguay’s military dictatorship, including several years in solitary confinement.
—Javier Hasse, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
Her husband, Sergei Tikhanovsky, is a political prisoner.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 1 Apr. 2025
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“Political prisoner.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/political%20prisoner. Accessed 9 Jun. 2025.
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