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00:00Listín Diario presents Sunday Reflections
00:30A CDA plane crashed, there are no survivors
00:57Minutes later the newsroom was buzzing with a macabre frenzy
01:00Who was on board? How did it happen? Where did it fall?
01:04The answers came in between murmurs and teletype clicks
01:08The entire country held its breath
01:10At dawn I found myself on the stern of the boat Capella
01:14Grappling hook in hand, sailing toward the area where the sea was spewing debris from Flight 603
01:20The air smelled of salt and death
01:24The sharks had already arrived before us, tracing voracious circles among the wreckage
01:29We collected what the ocean wanted to throw back at us
01:33Suitcases gaping like wounds, ownerless shoes, bodies mutilated by the force of the impact
01:39The captain told me to drink salt water to stem the vomiting and nausea
01:44It didn't help much
01:45Years later, I still seemed to taste the bitterness of that day
01:49Managua, the city that vanished, 1972
01:53Two years later, another call, another flight, this time to hell on land
01:59The Managua earthquake had turned a vibrant city into a graveyard
02:02Photographer Napoleon Leroux and I arrived without luggage, without plans
02:08Unaware that we would be trapped for ten days among ruins and corpses
02:12The smell, God the smell, clad to our skin like a second sweat
02:18We worked tirelessly, transmitting news amid aftershocks
02:22Distributing water to victims who dug with their nails in search of their families
02:26But fate had one last blow in store
02:29Roberto Clemente, the hero who had come to save lives
02:33Died in another crashed plane, sinking into the same sea that years before had robbed me of my sleep
02:40The ghost of the jet set
02:43Today, after seeing the images of the rescuers fighting against the clock in the rubble of the nightclub
02:49I recognize that look in his eyes
02:51It's the same one I had
02:53The one that remains when you've seen too much
02:56The ceiling of the jet set didn't just crush bodies
02:59It broke something in the Dominican soul
03:02As in 1970, as in 1972
03:05The pain will not go away with official mourning
03:09It will remain hidden in the parents who will no longer hear their children's laughter
03:14In the friends who will avoid passing by the street where they once danced without fear
03:19Journalism in the end is not just about telling stories
03:22It's about not allowing the world to forget them
03:25For those who are gone
03:27For those who are still here
03:29For those who will come
03:30For Listín Diario, voiceover and translation by Danny Leon
03:34Listín Diario presented Sunday Reflections