This fi lm was made during Ruiz’s time as fi lm commissar of Unidad Popular, the union of centre-left parties that ruled Chile with Salvador Allende between 1970 and 1973. It was fi lmed on 28 March 1971 during the large peasant march in Temuco organised to celebrate the law “protecting” the Mapuche Indio people which gave them full citizenship with all the relative rights. Wha...