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2009 · 91m · Documentary
Documentary that tells the chronology of the current coup in the Central American republic, the massive resistance in the streets against the repression from the airport to the journey through the jungle on the border with Nicaragua, leaving an open ending that will be defined with the fight of an entire town in the streets.
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