An essential figure in the puzzle-shaped story of the Latin American fighting during the 20th century, Jorge Ricardo Masetti is not remembered enough. Born in 1929 in Avellaneda, he was the only Argentine journalist covering the Sierra Maestra portion of the Cuban Revolution. He founded and directed Prensa Latina –a project to resist information monopolies that included Gabriel García Márquez, Rodolfo Walsh, and Rogelio García Lupo– but soon “sacrificed the journalist” and dived into direct intervention in the armed struggle leading the People’s Guerrilla Army under the alias “Comandante Segundo”. Sustained by archive footage and many testimonies (from Gabo, Ciro Bustos, and many others), this documentary directed by Ruiz and Masetti (his grandson) draws a probable biography of this man, who lived several lives before disappearing in the jungle in 1964, and who –according to what we hear on the film– honored to the last minute his “given word: making the revolution, (even) beyond its real possibilities”. –Mar del Plata International Film Festival
