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This Bolivian film was banned both in Bolivia and the United States. It tells a quasi-historical narrative of a Peace Corps medial clinic that was sterilizing, without their knowledge or consent, Quechua Indian women who had come in for treatment. While the film is a dramatization, it is based on actual events which occurred in Bolivia in 1968 when the government imposed, with the help of the United States, a population control program. Jorge Sanjines, through interviews and fictional footage, straightforwardly tells the Indians' story while creating a sophisticated commentary on the place of Indian culture in Bolivia. In 1970, Peace Corps were forced out of Bolivia due to rising anti-U.S. sentiment fueled by the film's release. Blood of the Condor was a vanguard of the Latin American cinema revolution and remains a central text in the history of anti-imperialist thought.