[4] Due to a famous aerial photograph of the tree-lined Luis Morquio Avenue filled with protesters in what looked like a river, the event was given the name Río de Libertad (Spanish for 'River of Freedom').

[11] Due to the suspension of the talks in Parque Hotel, in August the National, Colorado and Civic Union parties formed an alliance called "Intersectorial", which aimed to organize demonstrations to demand a democratic transition.

We have come in our common capacity as Uruguayans and patriots, heirs of a legacy of freedom, peace, justice, respect and tolerance for all ideas, devotion to legality and repudiation of all expressions of force and the violence.

The only speaker of the event was the actor Alberto Candeau, who read a proclamation written by the lawyers and politicians Enrique Tarigo and Gonzalo Aguirre Ramírez, who years later would serve as vice presidents for the Colorado and National parties, respectively.

[15] Throughout the event, proclamations of accessions from the Archbishop of Montevideo Carlos Parteli, from the Nobel Peace Prize winners Adolfo Pérez Esquivel and Lech Wałęsa, from the Uruguayan Bar Association, among others, were read.

President Gregorio Conrado Álvarez stated in a speech on a cadena nacional that "if one of the postulates of the act was the defense of democracy, it cannot be understood that those who, due to their ideology, have been and are its most recalcitrant enemies were present on the stage", referring to left-wing personalities with Marxist ideals.

[16] He concluded his address by saying: "At the end of this message, on behalf of the government and the Armed Forces, we declare: we will never disappoint the Oriental people by renouncing our responsibility when peace, freedom, justice and democracy are at stake, non-negotiable values of the artistic ideology.