Uruguay Criticizes Bulgaria-Shot US Action

Society | August 4, 2005, Thursday // 00:00

Uruguay's government criticized the Hollywood action movie "Submerged", which was shot in Bulgaria, as it ruined the country's image abroad.

Media reports that the government is considering legal actions against the producers of a Hollywood film "Submerged" with Steven Seagal which ridicules the South American country as a banana republic where a terrorist captured US nuclear submarine is taken.

In the film Uruguay is shown as a country ruled by a corrupt president surrounded and supported by drug barons where the US Ambassador is mercilessly killed in Montevideo.

In the countryside instead of cattle and sheep managed by tough gauchos, roam goats looked after by blonde peasants and in Montevideo streets signals and telephone booths have French writings while pedestrians speaking in English or Italian.

Steven Seagal's fans seem to agree with the Uruguayan government.

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