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The Federation of the Andes was a 1826 proposal for a confederation of Colombia, Peru and Bolivia by Libertador Simón Bolivar. [1] During the Spanish American wars of independence Bolívar and his lieutenant Antonio José de Sucre played a descisive role in the in achieving the independence of the three countries and held considerable influence in them, by way of their armies and by being ...
In March 2016, Canessa published his memoir, Tenía que sobrevivir: Cómo un accidente aéreo en los Andes inspiró mi vocación para salvar vidas, co-written with the Uruguayan author Pablo Vierci. [19] [20] English translation: Canessa, Roberto (2016). I Had to Survive: How a Plane Crash in the Andes Inspired My Calling to Save Lives. Simon ...
The Andes Museum 1972 (Spanish: Museo Andes 1972) is located in The Old City in Montevideo, the capital city of Uruguay.. It is a museum on the story of the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 related to a plane accident that took place in the Andes in 1972 involving a group of Uruguayan rugby players, their friends and relatives that were traveling to Chile when the airplane crashed.
(1976), also known as Supervivientes de los Andes, is a Mexican feature film production directed by René Cardona, Jr. [69] and based on Clay Blair's 1973 unauthorized account, [70] Survive! [ 71 ] Alive (1993) is an American feature film directed by Frank Marshall , narrated by John Malkovich (as older Carlos Páez Rodríguez ), and starring ...
The first edition was released in 1974. A paperback that referenced the film Alive: The Miracle of the Andes was released in 1993. A new softcover edition, with a revised introduction and additional interviews with Piers Paul Read, Coche Inciarte, and Alvaro Mangino, was released by HarperCollins in 2005.
Javier Alfredo Methol Abal (11 December 1935 – 4 June 2015) was a Uruguayan businessman and lecturer, known for being one of the 16 survivors of the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crash in the Andes Mountains in October 1972. [1]
Roberto Fernando Jorge François Álvarez (born 23 November 1951), better known as Bobby François, [1] is a former Uruguayan rugby player and agricultural producer, known for being one of the sixteen survivors of the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crash in the Andes Mountains in 1972.
The first time the presence of emeralds in present-day Colombia was known to the Spanish was in 1514 in Santa Marta. During the campaign of Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, the earliest contact with emeralds from the Eastern Ranges was made in 1537 in Chivor by Pedro Fernández de Valenzuela and Antonio Díaz de Cardoso.