Carlos Miguel Páez Rodríguez
Carlos Miguel Páez Rodríguez (known as "Carlitos"), is a Uruguayan agricultural technician, businessman, publicist, writer and lecturer. He was also a sportsman and rugby player for the Uruguayan team Old Christians Club, a club with which he is one of the survivors of the FAU 571 plane tragedy in the Andes in 1972. Páez is the son of Carlos Páez Vilaró (a well-known Uruguayan painter) and Madelón Rodríguez Gómez. He has five siblings: Mercedes, Agó, Sebastián, Florencio and Alejandro. He is the father of two children, María Elena de los Andes "Gochi" and Carlos Diego Páez.
On October 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, chartered to take a rugby team to Chile,...
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Stranded: I've Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains
as Self - Andes Crash SurvivorThe story, told by the survivors, of a group of young men, members of a Uruguayan rugby team,...
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The Andes's Odyssey
as SelfA documentary revolving around the 1972 crash of the plane carrying an Uruguayan rugby team;...
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Prisoners of the Snow
as Self - IntervieweeThe unbelievable story of the 1972 Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 carrying a rugby team...
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