La palabra empeñada (2010)
La palabra empeñada is a documentary film, released in 2010.
It shows the life of the famous Argentinian journalist and guerrilla, Jorge Ricardo Masetti through archive footage and interviews with people who knew him well like his friend, the Nobel-awarded writer, Gabriel García Márquez, the historian Osvaldo Bayer, the journalist Rogelio García Lupo and Conchita Dumois, who was his secretary and his second wife.
Masetti went to the Sierra Maestra in 1958 to make an interview with Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. He became a close friend of Che, they founded the Prensa Latina, the Latin American news agency and they prepared a guerrilla campaign (Ejército Guerrillero del Pueblo (EGP) in Argentina. Masetti led the campaign under the name El Comandante Segundo (The second commander) and he disappeared in the Argentinian jungle in 1964 after the EGP failed.
The film was shot in Cuba and the Northeast Argentina.
[Watch La palabra empeñada]
[Read the interview with Juan Pablo Ruiz - in Spanish]
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