Reference : V-P-NI-E-00104
Date : 06/02/2014
Country/Region : NICARAGUA
Caption : Jalapa. Portrait of a man in the cocoa plantation where he works. He lost his leg in the explosion of an anti-personnel mine.
Photographer : LISTE, Sebastian
Confidentiality level : public
Publication restrictions : publication without restrictions
Copyright : Getty Images/CICR
Description : The accident happened in 1987, while he was planting coffee near the Nicaraguan-Honduras border, a zone where the conflict was particularly devastating and where there is now the greatest number of mines in the country.

Currently he is renting a house where he lives with his two daughters and his son and where he works the land planting coffee and cocoa.
Original material : digital
Resolution : 6000x4000
Orientation : landscape
Colour/B&W : colour

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