In this, the first of a three-part video from Cubavision, Salvadoran Francisco Chavez Abarca talks about—and reenacts—a number of his missions to Cuba to plant bombs at tourist facilities during the mid-1990s:

For more on who Chavez Abarca is and the story of his involvement in the 1997 hotel bombing campaign, check out The Gordito Connection, an excerpt from “Sting of the Wasp,” my in-progress nonfiction book on the Cuban Fiva.