VT Foreign Policy At first glance Queimada, this extraordinary 1969 film by Bruno Pontecorvo, the same author of the Algiers war, might seem like a story closed in its historical era and in its geographical and cultural context of the Antilles of the mid-nineteenth century.
In reality, if we listen carefully to the speeches given by Captain Walker played by Marlon Brando an agent of British Crown on various occasions, they contain reflections and have allusive references that can be applied very well after more than a century to the Vietnam War, the Cuban revolution and Marxism, where we can find the same colonial and neo-colonial political dynamics that also characterized Pinochet’s Coup in 1973 Chile against Allende, in 1953 Iran against Mossadeq, in many other less known cases and even in recent times the final outcome of the hanging of Saddam Hussein in 2006 Iraq after the USA they had previously used him as puppet against Iran.
In facts if we know how to look beyond the appearances of the context of a poor and primitive slaves society like that of an island in the Antilles of the mid-nineteenth century so different in appearance from contemporary Western societies, with all the necessary changes having been made this film narrates the international political dynamics of the balance of power between Colonial Powers, nowadays ”East India Companies” and Colonized Governments of all times up to the present.
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