When breaking the news was not enough

Abstract

This documentary tells the life story of Argentinian journalist Jorge Ricardo Masetti, one of the first reporters to interview Fidel Castro and Che Guevara in the Sierra Maestra guerrilla, yet in 1958, who later became a revolutionary himself. With them, he founded the Prensa Latina news agency, aimed at reporting to the whole continent and countries in the Third World through a post-colonial perspective, against the bias of the major global agencies. He also took part in the resistance to the invasion at the Bay of Pigs, in 1961, and later left Cuba to fight for the independence of Algeria, in 1963, and set a guerrilla of his own in the jungle of Salta, Argentina, where he went missing the following year. The film contains testimonies by fellow journalists, former guerrilla fighters, friends and others who shared work and life with Masetti, and it puts forth a reflexion on the role of counter-hegemonic information and struggle in international communication.