BY: Hana Saada
ALGIERS- Javier Bardem is a famous Spanish actor. Out of his political convictions, he has become one of the most famous standard-bearers of the Sahrawi cause. We see him in this video, guest of a famous American television channel, explaining how he came to become an activist for this noble and just independence cause.
While denouncing the twisted attitude of the several world powers that are members of the Security Council, such as France, the USA and the United Kingdom, he particularly stigmatizes the dishonorable attitude of his homeland Spain, starting from the infamous Madrid agreements and the invasion of Western Sahara by the Moroccan army in 1975. Not to mention the current betrayal of Pedro Sanchez, president of the Spanish government.
Javier is the first Iberian actor to be nominated for an Oscar, in 2001, and to be awarded in 2008 as “best supporting actor” for his portrayal of a cold and implacable killer in No Country for Old Men by the Coen brothers. This role also earned him a Golden Globe in the same category. In 2012, he played the criminal Tiago Rodriguez / Raoul Silva in Skyfall, a film from the James Bond series. Javier Bardem also received the Best Actor award at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival (ex-æquo with Elio Germano) for the film Biutiful by Alejandro González Iñárritu, two Volpi Cups for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival: in 2000 for Avant la nuit by Julian Schnabel and in 2004 for Mar adentro by Alejandro Amenábar, as well as five Goya awards in Spain.
To date, he is one of six actors to have received the National Film Prize from the Spanish Ministry of Culture, along with Francisco Rabal, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Fernando Rey, Carmelo Gómez and Antonio Banderas. There is no doubt that the active support given by Javier to the Sahrawi cause will be of great benefit to him in this pivotal and decisive phase, during which the colonial and neocolonial West, an objective ally of the Moroccan occupation, is losing ground.
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(Translated from: La Patrie News)
