One moment, you’re living a normal life. You’re married. You have a family. You’re minding your own business. In the next moment, everything is interrupted by people in black military garb. You are bagged and driven away to be tortured in a facility far away. It’s all due to an administrative error. There is no due process.
Eventually the wife gets a receipt. A receipt for a dead husband that acknowledges that, yes, an administrative error was made.
That last sentence is the only clue to the fact that I’m not writing about Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man seized without any due process this year on March 12th, then sent to a horrific Terrorism Confinement Center in El Salvador.
As I am someone who writes about movies, your next guess might be that I’m referring instead to this year’s Academy Award-winning film from Brazil I’m Still Here. That biographical drama is about the arrest and disappearance in 1971 of Rubens Paiva. The military raided his house, which he shared with his wif…
