his grandpa kidnapped the president of Ecuador – journalist Marcelo Ayala

Ecuador, 1987. Socialist General Frank Vargas Pazos and his army kidnap the President of Ecuador in an attempted coup d'état – El Taurazo. 37 years later, his grandson Marcelo Ayala and I sit down at UnionDocs (a documentary center in NYC), to talk about this incident and Marcelo's project to uncover more about a grandfather he hardly knew growing up.

Marcelo's journalistic work: https://paralelo.info/

Thanks to UnionDocs for having us!