Flying multi-purpose cigars
Chapter 13. About how cigars and how they explode
Atitlán Lake, San Pedro la Laguna, Guatemala
The US Air Force supported the Contras against the Sandinista Forces. They flew their supersonic jets, taking off from their military bases in Honduras and Costa Rica, on either side of Nicaragua, with an impressive range of technology and hardware at their fingertips. This was easily deployed in all activities: bombing sorties, personnel transportation or simple reconnaissance operations.
On the other hand, Grandfather took off from clandestine dirt airstrips hidden in the fields, changing locations every day, so he couldn’t be detected. He flew that old, beaten-up Cessna of his, with its deadly cargo of dynamite, as he patrolled and bombed Contra positions and bases, mainly between León and the Honduran border.
He was always smoking a Cuban Havana cigar, which he held with his teeth firmly clamped down upon it. Once he picked a target, he descended with a mad dive, from the highest reaches that he forced the little craft to obtain. Scarcely a few moments before he inevitably had to pull out of his frantic dive, he threw a bundle of dynamite sticks, previously lighting the fuse with the burning tip of his cigar. At that point in the game, he would expeditiously propel the makeshift bomb with all his might, followed by enemy fire, until he finally reached the sanctuary, high above in the sky, among the cover of the clouds (the nosy, busy-bodies, self-named experts in the war, sustained lengthy discussions about a questionable record, supposedly set by Grandfather.
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