Carlos "Carlitos" Miguel Páez Rodríguez (born October 31, 1953), known as "the man of the iron spirit", spent 72 days in the

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following a plane crash, during which the sixteen survivors of the 45 on board resorted to cannibalism to stay alive. He was 18 years old at the time of the crash, and turned 19 on the mountains.

Biography

He is the son of Uruguayan artist

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. Life and work Carlos Páez Vilaró was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1923. He to ...

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crashed on October 13, 1972. He was portrayed by

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and

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(as the older Carlos, the narrator at the start of the movie, uncredited) in the 1993 feature film ''

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''. He was a rugby player for the

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. He became an agricultural technician graduated from Universidad del Trabajo del Uruguay, developing this activity for 10 years. In 1992 he started his 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. Present day, apart from his activities as a lecturer, he manages his company of Communication Consultancy and Public Relations. 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 great success and has gone through 14 printings.

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Carlitos Páez on Twitter.

Despues del dia 10 (After the tenth Day): La Cordillera De Los Andes Me Enseño a Vivir (Spanish Edition).
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