Videos tagged with "news"

High Speed Chase and Making the Front Page [07:07]
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Tags: News, Entertainment, Front Page (newsmagazine), motorcycle, nicaragua, mexico, honduras, atlas, rider, atlasrider, Chase

1979 Managua, Nicaragua for ABC.wmv [00:28]
1979, Documentary film by Detroit Annie in Managua, Nicaragua, around Xmas - I was commuting between Brussels and Paris, had a enough (from doing the Tambacounda documentary) for a ticket to see Jesse in Costa Rica for Xmas, and had inside info about the Nicaraguan revolution about to happen, so arranged with ABC news (whom I'd worked with before in Ny) to cover it freelance while I was on that side of the globe. Arrived ok, ABC called and wanted me to go to Managua right away to film a demonstration - I said look, I'm not rich, can't go twice, and have inside info that the real revolution will be in ten days, not now - they insisted, promised to reimburse planefare, have a hotel room waiting and a local chauffeur, all the film I'd need, by courrier plane, no problem - so I went. Immediately, Somoza shut down the phones, airports and roads, no way out. At the hotel they'd received no instructions about me, the previous stringer was leaving and wouldn't even let me use the shower! A woman who worked at the airport and remembered me, let me stay at her very modest home, (dangerous section of town) called an uncle who happened to be pals with the revolutionary leader Eden Pastora, to arrange an interview, and took me to the demonstration - which looked like any other demonstration - but I filmed it and put the rolls on the courrier plane expecting blank rolls to keep shooting - they didn't come. Next day the central telephone standard was opened and I called ABC (collect ...
Tags: Managua, Nicaragua, Sandinista Revolution, Somoza, Eden Pastora, Comandante Zero

Chicken Bus music [02:19]
No chicken bus ride would be complete with super loud Mariachi music blaring out the speakers. The good news is that this pretty much chancels out any other noise. Check out our Blog at poBoxEarth.org for more videos, pics and stories on Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua, we also posted a comprehensive story/guide to the chicken buses of Central America
Tags: Chicken bus, music, mariachi, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, loud music, school bus, central america

Travel News FITUR Madrid 2011 3 [01:25]
Durante cinco días la ciudad de Madrid se convirtió en la sede de FITUR 2011. La Feria Internacional de Turismo creada para reforzar la actividad y atender las necesidades del mercado turístico internacional. Entrevistas a : Bruno García, Consejal de turismo de Cádiz Javier Alonso, Director de marketing de Iberia Mario Salinas, Ministro de turismo de Nicaragua Son múltiples las opciones que propone este FITUR 2011 y como siempre, Sun Channel estuvo presente para acercarte a ellas.
Tags: Iberia, Nicaragua

Arriving at San Carlos, Nicaragua [01:09]
San Carlos, Nicaragua
Tags: San, Carlos, Nicaragua, Travel, Vacation, Tourism, Tourist, Cheap, Boat, Boating, Fishing, rain, forest, rainforest, marketplace, shopping, boats, news, Visa, Immigration