Documentary filmmaker and social activist Lourdes Portillo dies at 80
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Influential documentary filmmaker Lourdes Portillo, who used her art as social activism to illuminate the struggles of the working class, has died. The Mexico native, who made "The Devil Never Sleeps" in 1994, and received an Oscar-nomination for her 1985 film, "The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo," died Saturday morning at her home in San Francisco, according to her friend and fellow filmmaker Soco Aguilar. Portillo, who had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer several months ago, was 80. "She...

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