The journalist recalled how traumatic that coverage was following one of his colleagues ended up injured and decided to try to save his life.
This Monday, from you to you will broadcast a special chapter with the journalist Rafael Cavada, who He will intimately remember the traumas of covering the Iraq war in 2003.
“All these are things that later make you have nightmares”assured the journalist to Martín Cárcamo, according to a preview to which BioBioChile had access.
Thus, the journalist wanted to take a moment to recall one of the crudest moments: when witnessed the death of the Spanish cameraman for Telecinco, José Manuel Couso.
So, Cavada was staying in a hotel that ended up being the center of a bombing. It was at that moment that the journalist He had to choose between helping to save his life or recording the attack.
“I helped him, because I considered that recording was of no use. When there are other people helping, one records. I’m not that brave. If the guy was there and he needed help, I mightn’t watch without doing anything.”he remembered.
However, not only did he experience the trauma of trying to save a colleague’s life, but the very horror of the war ended up affecting him psychologically.
“(The bombing) tore pieces from the balcony. If I had been on the balcony I would have died”, he recalled from the attack. It was so, he assures, “Nightmares appeared.”
“I remember dreaming of a girl I had seen hurt, and when I looked up, it was my niece,” he confessed.
However, Cavada will also remember another dark moment in his mental well-being. As he explained, following leaving TVN in 2006, the journalist He ended up in a deep depression.
As he describes, “I didn’t want to do anything, but I got up anyway. I’m super functional in that aspect, but I began to feel that nothing interested me.”
“For me to feel that my work has no purpose It’s like being dead in life”he lamented, assured that he was finally able to overcome that episode following undergoing therapy with a professional.
