Anaïs Taracena's debut feature film, El Silencio del Topo (“Silence of the Mole”) is a melancholy documentary that follows the Guatemalan journalist who went undercover to expose genocide within the country.
Toward the end of the film, the audience is introduced to the son of Barahona’s former close friend and fellow journalist Marco Antonio Cacao Muñoz, also known as Maco Cacao. Cacao was brutally murdered in 1980 for upholding the truth about government violence in his news radio reports. His son shares a note he found in his father’s agenda that encapsulates the power struggle faced by Guatemalans.
Sometimes the language is very timeless. You don’t know what era you are in and you still feel that weight of the past, a lot, and it is very subtle. It is as much in people’s bodies as it is in the walls. My generation and the newer generations don’t know this story. I had no idea who Elías was, right? Elías was a university professor in Guatemala, so the students who were his, more or less, knew a little about his history without so many details. But really, since we began showing the film in Guatemala, the public was very shocked because they did not know that story. Even people of Elías’s generation, who did know his story, did not know it in such detail.
At that moment, I had neither the intention nor any idea that it was going to be a documentary. In a way, life was guiding me towards that. I feel that the story came to me with great force and I don’t know how to explain it because after Elías dies, I film him in this trial because he asks me to film him, and Elías dies two weeks later. And it was after the death of Elías that I really decided to start making the documentary.I feel that sometimes life led me to that.
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