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Ben Cowles talks to director SAUL ALVIDREZ about his upcoming film Chomsky & Mujica, a documentary on the first meeting of the two leftist luminaries
Director and political activist Saul Alvidrez (left) and (right) a screenshot from his upcoming film Chomsky and Mujica

A FEW weeks back a photograph appeared on my Twitter feed of the US dissident academic Noam Chomsky sitting with former Uruguayan president Jose Alberto “Pepe” Mujica in a beat-up Volkswagen Beetle.

Being somewhat obsessed with Chomsky and fascinated by Pepe Mujica – an 85-year-old former leftist guerilla who was president of Uruguay between 2010 to 2015, gave most of his salary to charity, shunned the presidential palace and chose to live on his rustic farm instead – I had to find out what they were doing together.

It turns out the photograph was a screenshot of an upcoming film called Chomsky & Mujica, a documentary about the first meeting of the two leftist luminaries.

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