Reference : V-P-NI-E-00107
Date : 06/02/2014
Country/Region : NICARAGUA
Caption : Jalapa. Portrait of a former combatant who became blind in the explosion of an RPG-7 anti-tank mine. He now sells corn, rice and beans to his neighbors.
Photographer : LISTE, Sebastian
Confidentiality level : public
Publication restrictions : publication without restrictions
Copyright : Getty Images/CICR
Description : The accident happened in 1989 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 lives with his son in Jalapa.
Original material : digital
Resolution : 3627x5440
Orientation : portrait
Colour/B&W : colour

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