Carlos Páez Rodríguez
Born
Carlos Miguel Páez Rodríguez

(1953-10-31) 31 October 1953
Montevideo, Uruguay
NationalityUruguayan
Occupation(s)Entrepreneur, motivational speaker, writer
Children2
WebsiteCarlitos Páez

Carlos "Carlitos" Miguel Páez Rodríguez (born October 31, 1953), known as "the man of the iron spirit", spent 72 days in the Andes 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.[1]

Biography

He is the son of Uruguayan artist Carlos Páez Vilaró. Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashed on October 13, 1972. He was portrayed by Bruce Ramsay and John Malkovich (as the older Carlos, the narrator at the start of the movie, uncredited) in the 1993 feature film Alive. He 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.”[2]

He graduated from Universidad del Trabajo del Uruguay and became 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.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Guider, John. 2022. To Play the Game. p.70, Fig. 35: Republica Oriental Del Uruguay Fuerza Aerea. Oct. 12, 1972. Manifiesto de Pasajeros
  2. ↑ Cannibalism: The Andes flight disaster, 50 years later
  3. ↑ "Carlitos Paez - CV". beta.intermedia.com.uy. Archived from the original on 1 July 2012. Retrieved 22 May 2022.


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