Fireflies at El Mozote (Luciérnagas en El Mozote)

Let's go.

Mom!

Hurry up!

Wait for me!

Shh!

Fire!

There.

Hmm?

All right.

Yep.

Hey.

Son of a bitch!

No!

It's horrific.

When will you take us to the village?

Unfortunately not.

We need to go to the site of the massacre,

see it in person.

What's going on here, Aurelio?

I thought we had everything worked out ahead of time.

Well, our deal was to provide you with undisputable proof

that the massacre occurred,

and I think the photos do that.

I can't take this to my editor and say that my contacts

wouldn't take us to the site of the massacre,

just showed us a few photographs, told us a story.

Doesn't work that way.

Have we ever lied to you

or given you bullshit stories?

It has nothing to do with that, Aurelio.

This is basic journalism.

How would you like it, for example,

if Montenegro came to us,

showed us a photograph and said

that you killed everyone in the village

and then we release that story without double-checking?

How'd that make you feel?

I'm not sure you understand how big this story is,

Aurelio, because it's huge.

So I need complete access to all information,

that's including testimonies from all the witnesses,

-and all survivors. -There's no survivors.

The soldiers killed everybody.

We just travelled thousands of miles,

risked our lives crossing borders illegally

to get here to tell your story because we believe in it,

and we believe it's an important story to be told,

so don't you think we deserve a little more

than your mistrust and your secrecy?

Okay.

We found a survivor. He's a boy.

Well, I need to talk to him.

And take his picture.

Why?

Because if he's a survivor,

he's the story.

How old is he?

Um, we don't know. Nine, maybe ten.

Hundreds of villagers were massacred

by government troops, trained,

equipped and financed by US military aid.

If we don't expose that to the rest of the world,

then your congressmen will continue giving

millions of dollars to those butchers

and history will repeat itself. That's the story.

If you want the greatest exposure worldwide,

that boy needs to be the center of this story.

Even if we let you talk to him,