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Indigenous movements have also been active in opposition to oil companies in the eastern Amazon basin of Ecuador. A new documentary explores this issue.

A documentary showcase on the PBS television network features a film this week about the recent history of  Argentina. Juan Mandelbaum uses his painful memories of a lost girlfriend to explore the stubborn pain inflicted from 1976 to 1983 when the nation’s military took control of the government in a film called “Our Disappeared.” The regime, in the name of fighting communist revolutionaries and other threats to internal security, used methods such as abduction, torture, and assassination that earned the period the name “dirty war.”

The website for the film is well done.

Dafnis Prieto, right, at MoMA on Sunday with Manuel Valera (piano), Peter Apfelbaum (tenor sax) and Charles Flores (bass). The New York Times reviews a performance led by the expat Cuban drummer Dafnis Prieto.