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I'm from Latin America.

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This region of the world,
which is dreamed of by so many.

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Its strength, its mountains
and rivers.

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The joy and
resistance of its people.

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A region marked by the brutal way,
in which we were conquered.

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First it was for
gold and silver.

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Then sugar cane,
coffee, oil...

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They even took the lives of
those who extracted and harvested.

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Very little has changed.

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The vessels of the first conquistadores
transformed into newer ones.

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Our resources leaving
to benefit others.

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Our land and
our people sacrificed.

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After my studies in journalism in Colombia,
I went to work in Europe.

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For several years, I coordinated
a network of NGOs

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tracking the relationship
between the EU and Latin America.

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From that position, I could see
the unlimited thirst

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of states and companies
for our natural resources.

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I started to wonder.

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Who are the new conquistadors?

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How do they operate?
How far are they willing to go?

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In the face of this pillage,
who is resisting?

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And how do they confront
these global actors?

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With these questions, here I was
20 years later, ready to go back

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to what has been called for many centuries:
The Land of Abundance.

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My first destination
is Cajamarca, in Peru.

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At the time of conquest,
they called it The Crown's Jewel.

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One of the country's most
important mining regions.

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Paradoxically also
the poorest one.

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I came here to meet
Maxima Acuña.

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The land where she lives is surrounded
by Latin America's largest gold mine.

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I came to listen to her story
about the battle she won.

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But became even more interested
in the battle she lost.

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Silence!

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Good morning!

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Where are you
coming from?

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From my house,
in Tragadero Grande, The Blue Lagoon.

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- And your name?
- Daniel Chaupe Acuña.

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- Do you need the children's name?
- No

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I understood the mining corporation
had trapped Maxima in her own territory.

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It seemed like
an absurd situation,

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in a desolate remote area,
4000 meters above sea level.

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I have been here
since 1994.

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We work the land
because we are peasants.

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My parents were peasants.

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We grew up in the fields
and they taught us how to work.

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Mother Earth gives us
everything we need.

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But now they say that
our land contains gold.

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That is why the company
wants to take our land.

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They want to kick us out.
Where will they dump us ?

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I wanted to see
the mine up close.

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Yanacocha's expansion plan included
the Conga Project.

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Very close to Maxima's house.

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Conga would destroy several
lagoons and water reserves,

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crucial to the survival
of the local population.

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What did Yanacocha do to you?
When did it all start?

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In 2010, Yanacocha started.

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They came with their staff.

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They claimed this land
does not belong to us.

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This land belongs to the Yanacocha
mining company, they said.

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We have the property title.

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So we showed it to them:
"Here are the documents!"

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The first time,
there were 6 people.

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They did not kick me out.

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The second time,

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there were 50 people.

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We are humble people.

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Look what the mining company
comes to do with police forces.

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They hit my mum
and my sister.

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Look where the engineers are.
Far away!

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They don't even come
fix the problems themselves.

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They rather
send their staff.

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Look how they came
with machinery!

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A mining company should
not act this way.

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They come and take
what belongs to others!

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Look what they did
to my family.

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My mum fainted.

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Please we need your help!

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My husband went to the
NGO Grufides in Cajamarca.

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There he met
the lawyer Mirtha.

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She helped us
spread the news.

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This is when
I first met Maxima.

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Her story was so severe,
that I doubted its truth.

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We are talking about
a formal company.

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Presenting itself as respecting high
social and environmental standards.

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So when Maxima told us that
they violently tried to evict her,

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that they came with police,
with private security,

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that they beat her,

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and that they almost
killed her daughter...

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To me, it was too much.

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And I even doubted.

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So I asked her to show me
her blows and wounds.

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She then got undressed.

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This gave us the elements
to take on such a delicate case.

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We tried to activate
justice in our favor.

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We took the complaint
which Maxima filed.

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Not only had it been archived,

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but the company had filed a complaint
against Maxima and her family.

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And their accusation
was given due procedure.

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To me, this was shocking.

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I understood that the judicial system
works for those in power.

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"Máxima Acuña:
three-year suspended jail sentence."

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The mining company sued
Máxima and her family

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claiming they had illegally
usurped the land.

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They had no qualms about
saying outrageous lies that

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Maxima entered and assaulted
10 police officers.

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There were 10 police
officers injured.

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It even made us laugh!

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So I told her
"Super Maxima"!

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How could you
hit so many police?

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Then get inside and
take over the land?

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No to Conga!

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Talking to people, I understood that
Maxima's case was not an isolated one.

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These are the minutes of
the Blue Lagoon's inspection.

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11 AM, on Sunday 24th of October

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We inspect that the lagoon
level has dropped.

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There is no sign
of mining activity.

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In the case the mine
started new activities,

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we would call a general assembly
with all our people,

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all community watchers, from
Bambamarca and Celendin.

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The two men I encounter
are ronderos.

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They form autonomous
peasant patrols in rural areas.

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Nowadays, they primarily watch over
the activity of foreign companies

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and they are the backbone of the environmental
justice movement in the region.

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A wind of resistance is blowing
in the mountains of Cajamarca.

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I just want to tell you that

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we are all fighting together in order
to protect our water, our land.

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We know that without water
we can't survive.

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Without land there is
no work, no food.

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As peasants, we don't want
to go and live in a city.

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And how are we
going to survive?

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Their money will disappear.
Our land will be forever.

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Until the day we die. Then for
our children. For our grand-children.

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There is no reason why
the company should win!

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Why can't we unite,
all the districts?

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And say out loud that
the mine should go away!

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So that we can
live in peace.

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These are my few words as we are
almost reaching the end of the day.

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Thank you!

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The People, united,
will never be defeated!

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My blood, my life!
All for the water!

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- Conga?
- No!

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Not now!
Not ever!

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I had heard that,
back in 2011

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Ollanta Humala,
the presidential candidate at the time

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stood out as a fierce advocate for water
during his campaign.

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The mining company says
you want to sell the water!

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They say they made a consultation.
Did they consult you?

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No!

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What matters more:
Water or gold?

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Water!

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I was surprised to know that,
once elected, he changed his discourse.

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The Conga project is
important for Peru.

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It will allow the great transformation
and social inclusion of the Peruvian people.

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We reject extreme positions:
water or gold?

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We prefer a common sense position:
water and gold!

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We can clarify any doubts
about the lagoons.

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In this sense, the Government will guarantee
the supply of water for the entire community.

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They grabbed him.

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Don't hit me!
Don't hit me!

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I'm not doing
anything wrong!

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I'm not doing
anything wrong!

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I'm a journalist!

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All the people of Peru show solidarity
with the people of Cajamarca.

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Our fight is full of hope!

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The protest that started
in the Cajamarca region,

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organised by peasants
and indigenous communities

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quickly spread nationwide, into a
historical march in defense of water.

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It eventually paralysed
the Conga mining project.

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We want potatoes,
we want corn!

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Transnational corporations,
out of the country!

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Despite the victory against Conga, Maxima
had to face Yanacocha once again.

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This time at
the Supreme Court.

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We will now begin.
It is May 3rd, 2017, 9 AM.

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Dear Secretary, please read out
the conclusion of the sentence.

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We declare the cassation appeal unfounded,
as filed by the lawyer of Yanacocha company.

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It acquitted the following
accused people.

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I'm happy. I'm relaxed.
In the name of justice.

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Here in the capital of Peru, today,
justice was achieved based on true facts.

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I just hope I'll never have to face
any further harassment from the company.

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They are very
abusive people!

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Maxima thought she
had finally won.

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We all thought so.

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But nothing could be
further from the truth.

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This was the path we took to go
to the nearby villages down hill.

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After we won the trial, the company
started to put fences everywhere.

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We did not know how to get in
and how to get out of here.

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We are back!

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Lucky you came
before the rain!

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This morning nothing. Now that
we have left the lagoon, it rains.

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Here the company did not
leave us in peace.

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You can see their
CCTV cameras.

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They are watching us,
pointing it at the house.

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- The camera up the hill?

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- Yes that one.
- Ha, yes, watch this.

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- It is surveilling us.

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They are watching us.

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If we are here,
or not.

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What we are doing,
who we are meeting.

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If we are alone,
or not.

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They also started
to send drones.

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Maxima was idealized by the global media
for this David-and-Goliath battle.

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Global media left.

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The mining corporation remains.

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I am silent when
I leave Maxima's land.

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I had been to Honduras a few years earlier
within the context of my previous work.

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The European Union has an agreement
with six Central American countries.

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Honduras is one of them.

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It never ceases to amaze me
that a giant like the EU

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negotiates with such small economies,
as if they were on equal terms.

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If these negotiations
benefit people,

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why is Honduras still one of the poorest
countries in the world, ten years later?

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And one of the countries where the largest number
of environmental defenders are killed?

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Honduran indigenous and
environmental organisor Berta Caceres

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has been assasinated
in her home.

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She was one of the leading organisors
for indigenous land rights in Honduras.

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For years, the group faced
death threats and repression

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as they stood up to
mining and dam projects

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that threatened to destroy
their community.

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It is precisely the murder of the activist
Berta Caceres that brings me back here.

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In La Esperanza, the city where
Berta Caceres lived, I meet her daughter, Bertha.

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Good morning Granny!

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This is mum!

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I was the Championship
Godmother!

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They let you
score the goal.

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It was in 2009,
more or less.

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These pictures
are beautiful.

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My mum had three daughters
and she was still very fit.

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When you were born, you were so skinny,
that we thought you were going to die.

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There was no incubator, so you
grew up with bottles of hot water.

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And now Miss Bertha is
the Coordinator of COPINH.

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When I was told that they had killed
Berta Caceres, who was my mum.

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I had not doubt that she represented
an effective struggle

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of the Lenca people against
these corporate interests.

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So from that
moment onwards,

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I dedicated every single day of my life
to seeking justice for my mum.

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Who told you
that the struggle

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led by indigenous people,
had been an easy one?

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Never!

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Do you know how long
indigenous people have been fighting?

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For five-hundred twenty years,
since the Spanish invasion.

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Since the invasion, power has remained
in the hands of these northern countries.

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It was based on the
exploitation of our people.

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Seventy million indigenous peoples
were murdered in our continent.

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Colonialism is not over.

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This is why this fight is
so hard for the indigenous.

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And the State apparatus
is working to maintain this.

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But we are also
very powerful!

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This is why we
are still here today!

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In 2009 Honduras was hit
by a civic-military coup.

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We understood, the aim was
not just to remove the President.

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It was against a deeper social
revolution led by communities.

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About the re-foundation
of Honduras,

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territorial control,
indigenous and women's rights.

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A key component of the Coup
aimed at consolidating Honduras

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as an economic model based on the
privatization of common goods and nature.

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It was a set of 49 licences
for hydroelectric dams

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in order to exploit rivers
as well as other energy projects.

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Counting forty-nine just
in the region of the Lenca people.

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And one of these projects was
the Agua Zarca project.

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The Gualcarque River is a
sacred river for the Lenca people.

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The largest indigenous
community in Honduras.

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The river became the symbol of a struggle
between two incompatible worldviews.

00:25:45.920 --> 00:25:49.199
Companies see
in the river investment,

00:25:49.199 --> 00:25:52.119
business opportunities
and economic growth.

00:25:52.119 --> 00:25:56.920
On the contrary, the Lenca people
see it as biodiversity,

00:25:56.920 --> 00:25:59.960
a common good to be taken
care of, and a spiritual place.

00:26:00.880 --> 00:26:05.640
One wonders.

00:26:06.960 --> 00:26:11.119
Where does so much
strength come from?

00:26:12.840 --> 00:26:17.000
Where do so many
Rosalinas come from?

00:26:18.119 --> 00:26:22.279
Where do so many
Bertas come from?

00:26:23.760 --> 00:26:27.920
They told
me a secret.

00:26:27.920 --> 00:26:32.079
These are
ancestral spirits.

00:26:32.279 --> 00:26:35.880
You did not consult the people,
and today we don't want you to tell lies.

00:26:40.600 --> 00:26:43.479
The one who is leading
you here, Berta Caceres.

00:26:46.840 --> 00:26:51.039
She had a meeting with he President.
And The President of the Republic told her

00:26:51.039 --> 00:26:53.880
that the company is
not going away!

00:26:53.880 --> 00:26:56.439
They will come
for the water.

00:26:56.439 --> 00:26:58.600
- Here we will be
day and night!

00:27:00.079 --> 00:27:03.640
I see clearly that most people
are in favor of the dam.

00:27:09.520 --> 00:27:11.720
Go away!

00:27:11.720 --> 00:27:13.760
You are lying!

00:27:14.079 --> 00:27:17.439
We are going to read you
a bit of this document

00:27:17.439 --> 00:27:20.920
in which it is
stated that

00:27:20.920 --> 00:27:23.439
people here
have signed it.

00:27:23.439 --> 00:27:26.560
But this is a lie as we never
signed any document.

00:27:26.560 --> 00:27:28.359
This is a lie
because

00:27:28.359 --> 00:27:32.159
here you see the list, written
in only one hand writing,

00:27:32.159 --> 00:27:35.199
and without
an ID number.

00:27:35.199 --> 00:27:39.359
People who can't even read
or write, appear here.

00:27:39.359 --> 00:27:41.479
My name is
Santo Gil Gomez.

00:27:41.479 --> 00:27:45.920
I was upset because
I was in this document,

00:27:45.920 --> 00:27:51.239
claiming I am in
favor of this dam.

00:27:51.239 --> 00:27:53.279
I can't sign or read.

00:27:53.279 --> 00:27:55.920
So why is my name
in this document?

00:27:55.920 --> 00:27:58.359
They simply stole
the signature from me.

00:27:59.239 --> 00:28:01.479
My name is
Gloria Suyapa Paz.

00:28:01.479 --> 00:28:06.000
My signature is in this document,
but I did not sign it.

00:28:06.119 --> 00:28:14.399
They have forged my signature and
this is a crime against these people.

00:28:14.399 --> 00:28:18.000
We are the Lenca, the indigenous
community from Intibuca.

00:28:28.960 --> 00:28:35.920
Bertha tells me that in 1994,
a historical Lenca march,

00:28:35.920 --> 00:28:40.039
promoted by COPINH, took over
the capital of Honduras.

00:28:40.039 --> 00:28:45.239
It led to the ratification of
international Convention 169.

00:28:45.239 --> 00:28:49.399
It enables indigenous communities
to have a say

00:28:49.399 --> 00:28:54.039
in the economic projects affecting
them in their territories.

00:28:56.319 --> 00:28:59.920
However Convention 169
was not respected.

00:29:06.039 --> 00:29:08.199
On the 1st of April 2013,

00:29:08.199 --> 00:29:12.760
people in Rio Blanco started
"The Taking of the Oak".

00:29:12.760 --> 00:29:15.039
They wanted to block
the machineries,

00:29:15.039 --> 00:29:18.279
which were already destroying
a part of the mountain.

00:29:18.279 --> 00:29:21.359
They wanted to build a road

00:29:21.359 --> 00:29:27.640
and start bringing all
the equipment for the dam.

00:29:38.479 --> 00:29:42.840
From that day onwards, violence was
unleashed against the community.

00:29:42.840 --> 00:29:52.399
Private security, machineries, police,
military, they all started to come here.

00:29:52.399 --> 00:29:57.479
There was dreadful control
to get in and out of the community.

00:29:59.279 --> 00:30:02.560
Here, COPINH is going to rule.

00:30:29.800 --> 00:30:34.319
We could already see,
in January and February,

00:30:34.319 --> 00:30:37.560
that the level of tension
was once again rising.

00:30:37.560 --> 00:30:41.319
There was an atmosphere of tension.
There was surveillance.

00:30:41.319 --> 00:30:44.960
In one of these actions,

00:30:44.960 --> 00:30:49.319
the main leader of the community
was openly shot dead.

00:30:49.319 --> 00:30:52.399
His name was
Tomás Garcia.

00:30:52.399 --> 00:30:56.880
He was the President of the Council,
as well as a religious authority.

00:30:56.880 --> 00:30:59.600
He was very
well-known.

00:31:09.640 --> 00:31:15.560
We want to make a commitment here,
in front of Tomás's body and soul.

00:31:15.560 --> 00:31:17.880
We are not going
to sell out!

00:31:17.880 --> 00:31:22.920
We want that DESA and SinoHydro
to leave this project.

00:31:22.920 --> 00:31:27.640
We demand them to remove
all repressive forces from here.

00:31:28.159 --> 00:31:32.960
The hitmen culture
and the death threats.

00:31:32.960 --> 00:31:35.720
The persecution during these
one-hundred and eight days

00:31:35.720 --> 00:31:39.560
of heroic resistance
you have been leading.

00:31:46.439 --> 00:31:50.680
We'll change the world
with our love.

00:31:50.680 --> 00:31:54.720
Together we'll make History.
Let's go!

00:32:07.479 --> 00:32:11.520
Berta didn't die!

00:32:11.520 --> 00:32:17.279
She is now millions of people.
I am Berta.

00:32:27.319 --> 00:32:31.279
In 2013, we started
to investigate

00:32:31.279 --> 00:32:35.720
who the investors were,
as we did not know them.

00:32:35.720 --> 00:32:42.079
Thanks to people in The Netherlands,
we discovered that the FMO bank was involved.

00:32:42.079 --> 00:32:45.159
This is the Dutch
development fund.

00:32:45.159 --> 00:32:49.680
The FinnFund, a development
fund from Finland.

00:32:49.680 --> 00:32:53.640
The Central American Bank
for Economic Integration,

00:32:53.640 --> 00:33:02.000
and for turbines and electrical consultancy,
the German company Voith Hydro.

00:33:02.000 --> 00:33:05.279
More precisely
with the FMO,

00:33:05.279 --> 00:33:12.199
Berta Caceres, as COPINH coordinator,
started communication with the bank.

00:33:12.199 --> 00:33:15.720
Mainly by email.

00:33:15.720 --> 00:33:19.760
She asked them not
to invest in this project

00:33:19.760 --> 00:33:23.640
because it was violating the rights
of the indigenous communities,

00:33:23.640 --> 00:33:28.000
and that the leader Tomás Garcia
had already been shot dead.

00:33:28.000 --> 00:33:32.880
"Our people DO NOT grant consent for Agua Zarca
and the company in our Sacred River."

00:33:39.119 --> 00:33:43.319
"FMO is comfortable further pushing
our involvement in the project."

00:33:43.319 --> 00:33:46.119
To this second email,
the bank replied

00:33:46.119 --> 00:33:52.239
the communities were not
indigenous communities.

00:33:52.239 --> 00:33:54.640
So we asked ourselves

00:33:54.640 --> 00:33:57.000
how dare a Dutch bank

00:33:57.000 --> 00:34:00.840
tell us who indigenous people are,
or are not, in our territories?

00:34:00.840 --> 00:34:05.159
In this North vs. South
relationship,

00:34:05.159 --> 00:34:09.279
we are the ones
who must pay

00:34:09.279 --> 00:34:14.079
for the brutal consumerism
of these countries.

00:34:14.079 --> 00:34:17.119
We have to bear
the consequences

00:34:17.119 --> 00:34:21.760
of this climate change crisis,
driven by this economic exploitation.

00:34:21.760 --> 00:34:24.640
"FMO and Finnfund finalize
Exit Agua Zarca"

00:34:24.640 --> 00:34:27.000
I read in
a press release

00:34:27.000 --> 00:34:30.680
that the FMO and
the FinnFund decided

00:34:30.680 --> 00:34:35.640
to withdraw from the project
right after Berta's murder.

00:34:37.760 --> 00:34:43.000
If in a first trial, seven Honduran
people were sentenced,

00:34:43.000 --> 00:34:45.079
it took no less
than six years

00:34:45.079 --> 00:34:49.000
to sentence just one of the
intellectual authors of the murder.

00:34:52.159 --> 00:34:56.680
David Castillo, ex-military
and CEO of DESA

00:34:56.680 --> 00:35:00.000
was sentenced to
22 years of prison.

00:35:01.039 --> 00:35:06.159
Bertha has no doubt that
David Castillo is just a link

00:35:06.159 --> 00:35:08.560
between those who
pulled the trigger

00:35:08.560 --> 00:35:10.640
and those who
ordered the crime.

00:35:12.079 --> 00:35:18.560
And that the roots of her mother's murder
extend beyond Honduras.

00:35:25.600 --> 00:35:28.159
This is why Bertha
and her family

00:35:28.159 --> 00:35:31.720
decided to sue the FMO
in The Netherlands,

00:35:31.720 --> 00:35:36.800
and to find support in Brussels,
the heart of EU political power.

00:35:39.800 --> 00:35:43.560
The death of Berta Caceres is
the chronicle of a death foretold.

00:35:43.560 --> 00:35:50.079
Thirty-three times, she reported
the threats she was receiving.

00:35:50.079 --> 00:35:53.199
For the sole purpose
of protecting her land,

00:35:53.199 --> 00:35:56.560
indigenous people,
the environment.

00:35:56.560 --> 00:36:00.800
The lives of people
with rights to it.

00:36:00.840 --> 00:36:06.720
Much better than I, Bertha
is going to tell you all this.

00:36:06.720 --> 00:36:13.279
Thank you for this important
opportunity for us.

00:36:13.279 --> 00:36:20.840
It's a slap on the wrist to those
investing in these projects

00:36:20.840 --> 00:36:24.279
that violated principles, values
and human lives too.

00:36:24.279 --> 00:36:31.079
We are visiting the EU
with the intention

00:36:31.079 --> 00:36:36.439
of telling you that our fight
for justice won't stop.

00:36:36.439 --> 00:36:40.520
Love is the biggest
engine driving us.

00:36:40.520 --> 00:36:44.720
Our commitment to truth
won't be stopped

00:36:44.720 --> 00:36:48.239
not due to fatigue,
nor because of all the adversities.

00:36:53.880 --> 00:36:56.199
How did we get here?

00:36:58.640 --> 00:37:01.920
When corporations
and governments

00:37:01.920 --> 00:37:06.319
don't act decisively to prevent
human and environmental crimes,

00:37:06.319 --> 00:37:09.920
what is there left
for us to do?

00:37:56.439 --> 00:37:59.640
My final destination is Brazil.

00:38:00.359 --> 00:38:04.119
The region of Minas Gerais
entered Western History

00:38:04.119 --> 00:38:07.880
the day the Portuguese
found gold.

00:38:07.880 --> 00:38:11.039
The extracted quantities
were so great

00:38:11.039 --> 00:38:17.119
that it quickly became the largest
economic center in the region.

00:38:17.119 --> 00:38:21.880
One century later,
Minas Gerais fell into disgrace.

00:38:25.119 --> 00:38:28.279
Welcome to
Córrego do Feijão!

00:38:32.439 --> 00:38:34.159
warning:
risk of accident

00:38:34.159 --> 00:38:36.079
For sale

00:38:41.800 --> 00:38:45.119
I had no idea just how
shocking it would be,

00:38:45.119 --> 00:38:50.439
to enter a town where all traces
of life seemed to have disappeared.

00:39:18.399 --> 00:39:20.159
My name is Carolina
De Moura Campos

00:39:20.359 --> 00:39:24.199
I'm 36 and I was
born in Belo Horizonte.

00:39:24.199 --> 00:39:29.199
My mum brought me up alone
as she separated from my dad.

00:39:29.199 --> 00:39:33.720
After being abused
in my teens,

00:39:33.720 --> 00:39:39.319
I started to question
the world around me.

00:39:39.319 --> 00:39:42.079
I studied journalism

00:39:42.079 --> 00:39:46.560
and this is when I felt
a calling to protect nature.

00:39:46.560 --> 00:39:52.840
So I got involved with friends
workIng in the field of environment.

00:39:52.840 --> 00:39:55.119
We created
an NGO.

00:39:55.119 --> 00:39:59.319
We were a group of young people
who wanted to change the world.

00:39:59.319 --> 00:40:04.920
And as we are in Minas Gerais, it was
inevitable not to work on the mining issue.

00:40:04.920 --> 00:40:12.720
This is an issue that dramatically
affects the life of communities here.

00:40:22.199 --> 00:40:31.680
In 2015, we were shocked by the tragical
collapse of the dam of Fundão in Mariana.

00:40:31.680 --> 00:40:36.359
It was operated by Samarco,
a joint venture between Vale y BHP.

00:40:36.359 --> 00:40:41.439
There were 42 million
cubic meters of toxic waste.

00:40:54.880 --> 00:40:56.479
I had already
heard about VALE

00:40:56.479 --> 00:40:58.960
but I wanted to know
more about this company.

00:41:01.479 --> 00:41:03.760
VALE was created
in 1942

00:41:03.760 --> 00:41:05.720
by the Government
of Getúlio Vargas,

00:41:05.720 --> 00:41:08.880
and named
"Vale do Rio Doce".

00:41:08.880 --> 00:41:10.640
A mixed-capital
company

00:41:10.640 --> 00:41:13.760
with the Federal Government
as the main shareholder.

00:41:13.760 --> 00:41:17.680
Its privatisation happened
in May 1997

00:41:17.680 --> 00:41:20.039
during the government of
Fernando Henrique Cardoso,

00:41:20.039 --> 00:41:22.520
entering the stock
exchange of Rio.

00:41:22.520 --> 00:41:26.960
VALE is today the third largest
company of the country.

00:41:26.960 --> 00:41:30.000
Just behind Petrobras
and Itau Unibanco.

00:41:30.000 --> 00:41:34.399
Its revenues are estimated to be
the equivalent of 52 billions euro.

00:41:55.920 --> 00:41:59.039
Mining is inefficient.

00:41:59.039 --> 00:42:02.359
The amount of earth
they move...

00:42:02.359 --> 00:42:06.239
to get such a tiny,
let's say, diamond.

00:42:06.239 --> 00:42:07.880
It's absurd.

00:42:07.880 --> 00:42:12.439
They bomb
an entire mountain

00:42:12.439 --> 00:42:17.039
and just a small
part will be used.

00:42:17.039 --> 00:42:18.039
So there is
a lot of waste

00:42:18.039 --> 00:42:21.560
And for this, they need
tailings dams.

00:42:21.560 --> 00:42:25.399
This is a place where mines put
waste with no economic value.

00:42:25.399 --> 00:42:28.560
These are the leftovers
of what they bombed,

00:42:28.560 --> 00:42:30.159
after keeping what is of
economic value for them.

00:42:30.159 --> 00:42:33.880
In Brazil,
these tailings dams

00:42:33.880 --> 00:42:39.000
are built with the cheapest and
most dangerous technologies.

00:42:39.000 --> 00:42:45.439
Three years after the tragic
Fundão dam break in Mariana

00:42:45.439 --> 00:42:49.840
three dams, also
properties of VALE,

00:42:49.840 --> 00:42:54.800
collapsed today and created
a disaster still difficult to assess.

00:42:54.800 --> 00:43:00.359
This time it happened in Brumadinho, located
in the Belo Horizonte metropolitan area.

00:43:00.359 --> 00:43:05.439
We need an urgent plan
to evacuate everyone.

00:43:05.439 --> 00:43:11.479
A police order already closed
the city center of Brumadinho.

00:43:11.479 --> 00:43:13.720
100s of people
are missing.

00:43:13.720 --> 00:43:16.680
We must provide a plan to get
everyone out. It's urgent!

00:43:49.720 --> 00:43:51.520
They destroyed
our streets,

00:43:51.520 --> 00:43:55.159
our garden, our houses,
our dreams,

00:43:55.159 --> 00:43:57.039
They destroyed
our life projects.

00:43:59.199 --> 00:44:04.479
In a few minutes, it killed
two-hundred and seventy-two persons.

00:44:30.439 --> 00:44:35.359
How could it be that only three years
after the tragedy in Mariana,

00:44:35.359 --> 00:44:41.880
another dam, operated by the same company,
in the same region, collapsed?

00:45:11.239 --> 00:45:13.079
Five minutes Carolina.
Please.

00:45:14.039 --> 00:45:15.560
Good morning!

00:45:20.319 --> 00:45:24.039
I'll begin honoring all the souls
and all those who have been badly hurt.

00:45:25.720 --> 00:45:30.000
I belong to the community in Jangada,
which is neighbour to VALE's mining sites.

00:45:30.000 --> 00:45:33.800
Neighbour to
Córrego do Feijão.

00:45:33.800 --> 00:45:36.239
Fortunately, the mud
did not reach us

00:45:36.239 --> 00:45:39.279
because people live
higher up on the hill.

00:45:39.279 --> 00:45:42.119
The problem is the mining model
of this country.

00:45:42.119 --> 00:45:44.680
We are counting on all
members of this Parliament,

00:45:44.680 --> 00:45:47.000
parlamentarians
from Minas Gerais,

00:45:47.000 --> 00:45:50.319
we are counting on everyone
to put pressure on this company,

00:45:50.319 --> 00:45:55.560
because its behaviour
keeps violating rights.

00:45:55.560 --> 00:46:02.520
I wonder if a terrorist activated
a bomb now and killed us all,

00:46:02.520 --> 00:46:07.000
would they have the right to sit
down at the table and negotiate?

00:46:07.000 --> 00:46:09.760
Or would they
immediately be jailed?

00:46:09.760 --> 00:46:17.199
Why does a company that kills
every single day, repeatedly...

00:46:17.199 --> 00:46:20.840
Mining kills
every single day.

00:46:20.840 --> 00:46:24.119
Toxic waste
massacres people

00:46:24.119 --> 00:46:26.279
drop by drop
every day!

00:46:26.279 --> 00:46:28.800
How come they still have
the right to negotiate

00:46:28.800 --> 00:46:31.600
what are they going
to fix, or not fix?

00:46:31.600 --> 00:46:34.439
We have to
arrest them now

00:46:34.439 --> 00:46:38.600
and force them to do
everything the people want.

00:46:38.600 --> 00:46:41.439
Because the lives they took away
will never come back.

00:46:43.159 --> 00:46:47.800
In the document, pages 76 and 77
from the public civil action,

00:46:47.800 --> 00:46:52.960
VALE presents
ten risky dams.

00:46:52.960 --> 00:46:55.680
These dams are those
with higher risk

00:46:55.680 --> 00:46:59.039
according to the assessment
made by the company itself.

00:46:59.039 --> 00:47:05.159
In this list, we see dam B1
and 4A from Córrego do Feijão...

00:47:05.159 --> 00:47:07.319
In October 2018!

00:47:07.319 --> 00:47:11.000
Isn't it mandatory for the CEO
to know about this?

00:47:11.000 --> 00:47:14.479
Mandatory? The owner of
the information defines this.

00:47:14.479 --> 00:47:16.920
If the information is in
the technical department,

00:47:16.920 --> 00:47:24.199
and they estimate that this is not
a competence of the CEO,

00:47:24.199 --> 00:47:28.199
then I can't make
the difference.

00:47:28.199 --> 00:47:31.520
If a CEO is
not responsible,

00:47:31.520 --> 00:47:34.359
and here at CPI
we think he is,

00:47:34.359 --> 00:47:36.079
then who is
responsible?

00:47:36.079 --> 00:47:38.680
What are the
responsibilities?

00:47:38.720 --> 00:47:44.000
To cut spending in safety,
and to increase productivity,

00:47:44.000 --> 00:47:48.840
they put workers and
communities at risk.

00:47:48.840 --> 00:47:56.760
It's a deliberate corporate strategy
to produce a lot and to spend little.

00:47:56.760 --> 00:48:00.880
And if people die,
it does not matter!

00:48:00.880 --> 00:48:05.079
For many years, Vale knew
these dams were at risk.

00:48:05.479 --> 00:48:10.279
I had access to the investigation made by
the prosecutor in Minas Gerais.

00:48:10.279 --> 00:48:14.000
It revealed that Vale
had a list of ten dams,

00:48:14.000 --> 00:48:19.560
whose safety was
"below the acceptable limit"

00:48:19.560 --> 00:48:22.119
Vale kept this list
in a "secret box",

00:48:22.119 --> 00:48:24.680
hidden from public
authorities and citizens.

00:48:24.680 --> 00:48:27.119
"Black box"

00:48:27.119 --> 00:48:31.479
A company can use several
ways to do what it wants,

00:48:31.479 --> 00:48:35.960
One of these is called
"self-monitoring".

00:48:35.960 --> 00:48:39.239
So the company
monitors itself.

00:48:39.239 --> 00:48:44.680
Mining corps pay a company
to get dam stability certification.

00:48:44.680 --> 00:48:52.880
Vale contracted a first company.
They said: "No!"

00:48:52.880 --> 00:48:57.880
Vale hired another one.
They said "No!"

00:48:57.880 --> 00:49:01.600
So Vale contracted Tüv Süd,
a German company.

00:49:01.600 --> 00:49:04.159
As we know Germans make
the world's most beautiful wonders.

00:49:04.159 --> 00:49:07.079
They are trusted
with everything,

00:49:07.079 --> 00:49:10.840
from kids toys
to I don't know what.

00:49:10.840 --> 00:49:14.079
As Tüv Süd had a promiscuous
relationship with Vale,

00:49:14.079 --> 00:49:17.199
through many
other contracts,

00:49:17.199 --> 00:49:21.560
Tüv Süd wanted to consolidate its position
in the Brazilian mining market.

00:49:21.560 --> 00:49:23.239
So Vale pressured!

00:49:23.239 --> 00:49:29.800
If you don't give us the certification,
I'm going to break the other contracts...

00:49:29.800 --> 00:49:33.000
In the end,
a decision from Münich

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gave Vale the certification,
in September 2018.

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Just before
the dam collapsed.

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"the dam is stable"

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This dam rupture
is unforgivable.

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Irreparable.

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Whatever they pay, it won't be sufficient for the two-hundred seventy-two people that died.

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A mum who lost her child,
won't ever be called "mum" again.

00:50:09.079 --> 00:50:11.640
She won't be a granny.

00:50:11.640 --> 00:50:14.760
And money can't
repair this price.

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"Iron giant charged with homicide"

00:50:19.800 --> 00:50:22.960
In January 2020,
the CEO of Vale,

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fifteen employees
from Vale and Tüv Süd

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were charged with homicide
by the Prosecutor of Minas Gerais.

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All minerals that left here, and that
provided this massive size to the dam,

00:50:38.880 --> 00:50:42.119
it went somewhere.
Someone bought it.

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Someone made profit out of it.
Someone shipped it.

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So we must look at
the entire chain.

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For this reason,
we went to Europe

00:50:53.920 --> 00:50:57.479
to alert EU actors
to their own responsibility.

00:50:57.479 --> 00:50:59.680
We told them:

00:50:59.680 --> 00:51:03.399
you got innocent people's blood
on your hands too.

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Mums, dads, sons, daughters,
cousins, grandchildren...

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Many many families.

00:51:16.479 --> 00:51:25.399
Many European actors
influence mining corps' activities.

00:51:25.399 --> 00:51:29.439
Deutsche Bank
financed Vale.

00:51:29.439 --> 00:51:37.319
An insurance company like
Allianz insured its ventures.

00:51:38.439 --> 00:51:48.520
In Brumadinho, Tüv Süd, the certifying
company, played a key role.

00:51:52.159 --> 00:52:00.840
It's important that all the actors involved in
the iron chain face their responsibility.

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The first buyers of iron, as raw
materials, are no longer Europeans.

00:52:07.760 --> 00:52:12.000
Asian countries
are the first buyers.

00:52:12.000 --> 00:52:14.800
But we are in the
global value chain.

00:52:14.800 --> 00:52:18.119
So it would be better
to have a general law

00:52:18.119 --> 00:52:22.319
saying that companies, in Europe,
in a global value chain,

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have responsibility on how they buy
products coming from another country.

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And if we get that kind of law
at the European level,

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we can manage to get that law
at the international level.

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Not only for European companies
but also for others.

00:52:42.680 --> 00:52:46.319
Now as Europeans,
we must reflect on

00:52:46.319 --> 00:52:50.920
not only our welfare,
but also the welfare of others.

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Criminals!

00:53:09.399 --> 00:53:14.520
You brutally killed
two-hundred seventy-two people.

00:53:14.920 --> 00:53:17.880
We're going to fight
against you!

00:53:17.880 --> 00:53:20.800
This has to stop!

00:53:21.800 --> 00:53:24.439
Where are you?

00:53:29.680 --> 00:53:36.319
Maxima has been trying to sue Newmont
in the USA since 2017.

00:53:36.319 --> 00:53:40.239
Until now, no court
has let her do so.

00:53:40.239 --> 00:53:43.520
One day the mining company
sent her an offer.

00:53:46.039 --> 00:53:50.319
When they sent their letter,
they wrote

00:53:50.319 --> 00:53:56.000
"We are going to make
a donation of US $50,000"

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to improve another land
given by the company.

00:54:00.039 --> 00:54:03.720
If I sell my land,
I'll be left with nothing.

00:54:08.159 --> 00:54:10.199
Sure they'll give us
some money...

00:54:10.199 --> 00:54:15.840
But what can we do with money
if we don't have our land to live?

00:54:15.840 --> 00:54:20.920
This is why we don't sell and
we prefer taking care of our land.

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We'll keep fighting for our land
and for the right to live here.

00:54:40.920 --> 00:54:47.159
Because I wanted
to protect my lagoons,

00:54:47.159 --> 00:54:54.319
they wanted
to take my life away.

00:54:54.720 --> 00:55:03.079
I protect the earth, the water,
because this is life.

00:55:04.760 --> 00:55:10.760
I don't fear the power of corporations.
I'll keep fighting!

00:55:11.960 --> 00:55:16.920
The brothers and sisters who died
in Celendin and in Bambamarca.

00:55:16.920 --> 00:55:21.079
For all of them we are
resisting in Cajamarca.

00:55:27.680 --> 00:55:31.399
Where does so much
strength come from?

00:55:32.720 --> 00:55:36.680
Where do so many
Bertas come from?

00:55:37.119 --> 00:55:40.439
My mother fought.
Organised.

00:55:40.439 --> 00:55:44.000
My mother was
not assassinated.

00:55:44.000 --> 00:55:48.119
She is a seed that
is born and reborn.

00:55:48.119 --> 00:55:52.840
The fire, the struggle of the people,
which they tried to put out

00:55:52.840 --> 00:55:56.319
What they actually did
was to make this fire bigger

00:55:56.319 --> 00:55:59.199
because they tried
to put it out with gasoline.

00:55:59.199 --> 00:56:00.760
Berta is alive!

00:56:09.680 --> 00:56:15.199
We live in a civilisation driven
by its desire for unlimited growth.

00:56:16.079 --> 00:56:18.359
Like a spinning wheel.

00:56:18.359 --> 00:56:20.079
Going faster and faster.

00:56:21.920 --> 00:56:23.279
Out of control.

00:56:23.840 --> 00:56:28.119
Although people are suffering,
fighting back, and resisting,

00:56:28.119 --> 00:56:30.640
corporations
stop at nothing.

00:56:31.239 --> 00:56:34.680
Some harass,
divide and threaten.

00:56:35.520 --> 00:56:40.279
When necessary they send
an army of lawyers to the courtroom.

00:56:40.800 --> 00:56:44.000
When the resistance
gets too strong,

00:56:44.000 --> 00:56:49.279
some don't hesitate to brutally eliminate
anyone who stands in their way.

00:56:49.720 --> 00:56:52.920
This is why, as I'm about
to end this journey,

00:56:53.319 --> 00:56:59.439
I'm even more inspired by Maxima, Bertha
and Carolina's tireless courage.

00:57:00.159 --> 00:57:02.920
Three women,
who were all suddenly

00:57:02.920 --> 00:57:06.199
forced to face
the unacceptable.

00:57:06.199 --> 00:57:07.680
I wonder.

00:57:07.680 --> 00:57:10.560
Why do governments let
transnational corporations

00:57:10.560 --> 00:57:14.479
do abroad what they would
never do in their own territories?

00:57:16.199 --> 00:57:18.760
How to protect those
who defend nature?

00:57:18.880 --> 00:57:20.319
Berta multiplied!

00:57:20.479 --> 00:57:27.920
How long can we go on in this
perpetual illusion of abundance?

00:57:31.399 --> 00:57:36.239
In memory of more than 2000 environmental
defenders killed in the last 20 years