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Chelsea 2022-10-24 22:19:21
Introduction
In the 1970s and 1980s, revolutionary wars were burning in Central American countries, and many American journalists, so-called field correspondents, were just sitting in big hotels and distributing news based on hearsay, and were unable to discover the truth at all. This film makes an in-depth...
Joanna Cassidy
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Alex Grazier: [in Managua, on the phone talking to his New York editor, who doesn't think the latest news about a nightclub bombing in Nicaragua is important enough to supplant news about the Pope in Egypt] Forget the Pope, Charlie, you got the Pope someplace every week. There's a big story down here, because it's the first sign of fighting *in* Managua... Get a map, Charlie. Look up Nicaragua. Drive to New Orleans, and then you turn "left"... Oh, like hell I'm editorializing. Look, the whole thing happened in a room full of press and C.I.A... How do I know they were C.I.A.? Because they wore name tags, what do you think? Look, we're backing a fascist government again, I know that's not exactly news, but, uh, see if you can find an angle, huh?
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Russell Price: [Russell's been thrown in a jail cell in Managua; there's another prisoner in the cell] You're a priest, huh? A Padre? What are you doing here?
Prison Priest: The government accused me of knowing Rafael.
Russell Price: Government's always wrong, huh?
Prison Priest: [a bit suspicious] Who are you?
Russell Price: Periodista... I'd like to find Rafael myself.
Prison Priest: Whose side are you on?
Russell Price: I don't take sides. I take pictures.
Prison Priest: No sides?
Prison Priest: [Russell shakes his head; the priest gives him a long look] Go home.
