Cesar Mascetti cubriendo los acontecimientos de Nicaragua 1980

Nicaragua: Interview with a soldier wounded by Sandinista guerrillas: - What kind of injuries do you have? - How did it happen, where? - On the border with Costa Rica? - And how was that battle? - How many of you were in the National Guard? - And how many Sandinistas were there? - And how did the fighting end? How many casualties were there? - What is your name and how old are you? Image of armed combat with National Guard soldiers in the countryside. Image of a Nicaraguan airbase with planes on the runway. Image of journalist Cesar Mascetti waiting on the list to board a transport plane and then finding himself inside the aircraft with other foreign journalists. Shots from the plane in flight. Plane landed on the runway. Journalists getting off the aircraft. Report where journalist Cesar Mascetti states: - "When we arrived at the ANT air base, Nicaraguan Air Force, we did not know where they were taking us. While the transport was being prepared, there were some old Cesna planes adapted for bombing operating on the runway, a pair of supports under the wings held the bombs. They are machines of Israeli origin whose action has allowed the National Guard to recover several towns taken by the rebels. We are going to a place on the southern border, we are fighting, we will fly for about half an hour, the officer who accompanied us managed to add. After a while we landed on an improvised runway, directly in a field, a distance of barely 200 meters, since this type of aircraft is easy to brake. We then transferred to a helicopter, the same one that Somoza uses to tour the garrisons. A few minutes later the panorama changed and the Pacific Ocean appeared before our eyes, flying along the coast represented security, taking cover from the action of some isolated pocket of Sandinistas. San Juan del Sur, a port town that At that time, I was shipping sugar to Philadelphia; it was just another stop. From there, a second helicopter picked us up; only then did we learn our destination. First, it would be El Ostional, then El Naranjo, and finally Los Mojones. Three points almost on the border with Costa Rica where the fighting was fierce, where the smell of gunpowder still lingered, where the drama this country is experiencing surfaced with all its harshness, where peace was shattered time and again. Report to the National Guard soldiers: "Is this part of the weapons you seized?" "How many of you were there?" "How many of them were there?" "How many casualties were there in this battle?" "The EDI is the youth corps of the National Guard?" "How old are you?" (18) "And those bodies lying on the ground?" "How many rebels lost their lives in this episode?" "Major Bravo, describe the situation so far?" (Cesar Mascetti) Date: 1980 Running time: 7 minutes 56 seconds BG-0151 Copyright Archivo DiFilm - Buenos Aires - Argentina Inquiries about archival material: [email protected] Visit our website: http://www.difilm-argentina.com Follow us on:   / archivodifilm