Carlos "Carlitos" Miguel Páez Rodríguez (born October 31, 1953) is a Uruguayan entrepreneur and former rugby player. He is one of the 16 survivors of the

Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 was the chartered flight of a Fairchild FH-227D from Montevideo, Uruguay, to Santiago, Chile, that crashed in the Andes mountains in Argentina on 13 October 1972. The accident and subsequent survival became known ...

, which crashed in the

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mountains on 13 October 1972. He is the son of the painter

Carlos Páez Vilaró Carlos Páez Vilaró (1 November 1923 – 24 February 2014) was a Uruguayan abstract artist, painter, potter, sculptor, muralist, writer, composer and constructor. He took an active role in the search for survivors of the 1972 crash of Uruguayan ...

Biography

He is the son of Uruguayan artist

and was a rugby player for the Old Christians Club. Paez said he was utterly unprepared for the tragedy. “I was an 18-year-old boy, the son of a famous painter who gave us everything. I still had a nanny – she packed my suitcase for the trip. I had never been cold. I had never been hungry. I had never done anything useful. And I lived the most incredible survival story of all time.” He graduated from Universidad del Trabajo del Uruguay and worked as an agricultural technician for 10 years. In 1992 he started a career in advertising as a member of Nivel-Publicis creative team. He founded his own agency, Rating Publicidad, and was director of Bates Uruguay Publicidad. In the present day, apart from his activities as a lecturer, he manages his own communication consultancy and public relations firm. He has two children, Maria Elena de los Andes "Gochi" and Carlos Diego; and three granddaughters, Mía, Justina and Violeta. In 2003, Páez published the book ''After The Tenth Day'' which became a best seller and has gone through 14 printings.

Filmography

Rodriguiez was portrayed by

Bruce Ramsay Bruce Ramsay (born December 31, 1966) is a Canadian film, television and stage actor. Career Ramsay's screen debut was opposite fellow Montrealer Elias Koteas in the film '' Malarek'' (1988). Ramsay and Koteas went on to appear in two other fi ...

and

John Malkovich John Gavin Malkovich (born December 9, 1953) is an American actor. He is the recipient of several accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and ...

(as the older Carlos, the narrator at the start of the movie, uncredited) in the 1993 feature film '' Alive'', and by Felipe González Otaño in the 2023 feature film, '' Society of the Snow''. He also portrayed his own father, the artist

, in ''Society of the Snow''.

Bibliography

* * The 1993 film, '' Alive'', is an adaptation of this book. * Originally published in Spanish in 2008 as ''La Sociedad de la Nieve: Por Primera Vez Los 16 Sobrevivientes Cuentan la Historia Completa.'' The 2023 film, '' Society of the Snow'', is an adaptation of this book.

References

External links

Official website
* 1953 births Living people Rugby union players from Montevideo Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 survivors Uruguayan businesspeople Uruguayan Roman Catholics Uruguayan rugby union players Uruguayan cattlemen Uruguayan autobiographers People educated at Stella Maris College (Montevideo) {{Uruguay-rugbyunion-bio-stub