Name Joel Filartiga | ||
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Emotivo homenaje a un luchador contra la dictadura
Joel Holden Filártiga Ferreira (born 1932 in Yvytimi) is a Paraguayan doctor and human rights activist.

After his son Joelito was murdered by dictator Alfredo Stroessner's secret police in 1976, he was a participant in Filártiga v. Peña-Irala. He runs a clinic in Ybycui and is also an artist. He was played by Anthony Hopkins in the 1991 television film One Man's War.




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