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[vinyl crackle background]

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[Loud crowd]

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[distorted music built-up]

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[boat engine starting]

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[boat engine]

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[quiet village noises]

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[strong oar stroke]

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[enveloping underwater whoosh]

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[motor thrum vs gently water]

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[Samuel Off]: I can not
offer a tourist product

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and invest only in the material,

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build beautiful hotels,

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create good tourist attractions

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and then
not be ready for tourism.

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We don't want to sell
a product that does not exist.

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The Ministry of Tourism,
does not do that.

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But while I wait
at the port,

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waiting for the boat,

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when I look around,

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there is nothing
"touristic" there.

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[Journalist A off] :
That's "Les Cayes" ...

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[Jornalist B off] :
It's true,

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[S]: There is nothing ...
[J]:  Because!

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[S]: It has nothing "touristic".

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Exactly!

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[Indistintic chatter]

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Do you listen?

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I look right,
I look left.

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Trash!

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The immediate environment,

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the urban environment of Haiti

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it has nothing appealing.

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But,

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with the tourist potential

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of Île-à-Vache.

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It's an area of high
tourist potential.

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Could we make tourists

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skip this context?

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Going from point A
to point B,

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as in science fiction,

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and they'll
suddenly be there?

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No,
they can't appear at once.

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[Didier off] : - 30 years ago, when
you went to Dominican Republic,

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there were only dusty paths

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to access La Romana.

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There was nothing!
Absolutely nothing!

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Nevertheless,
from "Les-Cayes"

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we had a small road,

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but there were no holes.

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A two hours and a half route,

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from Port-au-Prince
to Les-Cayes.

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It was perfect!

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We shouldn't do the same,

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or so I hope...

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No matter what party,
I'm not talking of politics

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but it has to move forward.

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It has to move on!

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It must be people that care,

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who know what they do.

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[Water falling loudly]

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[Didier off] : 30 years ago,
tourism in the Dominican R.

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was less developed than in Haiti

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It's been very hard,

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cause we believed
we did the right investment,

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we believed in
that form of tourism,

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that could be the same
as in the Dominican Republic,

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and it has not been so.

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because...

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political affairs.

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Surely they've mistaken,

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because we take
decisions quickly,

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we activate things
and then we stop,

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but this is part
of moving forward.

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And yes,
who will carry it out?

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that's complicated,

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but at the program level

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it's a well-organized program

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to preserve this place.

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[Journalist] :
Mr. Didier, you do politics.

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[D]: Nooo
It's technics!

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[J]: 30 years later...
you mean that

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former governments did nothing.

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[D]: It's not that,
I mean there was nothing,

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nothing had been done.

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[J]: Politics then.

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[D]: It is an evidence ...

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[Voice off A]: Kitchen!
calling the restaurant.

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[WT voice off]
Yes, tell me.

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[A]:  Ok, it's here.

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[WT]: What?

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[D-off]: Port Morgan
was built 30 years ago

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on wonderful Île-à-Vache.

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Île-à-Vache is
an exceptional place.

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The last virgin island
of the Caribbean.

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That's why
we decided to organize ourselves

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and build a hotel
in Île-à-Vache.

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[Gentile piano music]

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[Piano music crescendo]

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[Music fades]

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[D-off]: In the area
there are ten million tourists,

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if we can benefit from it

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it would be
perfect for everyone,

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for innkeepers,

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for employees,

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for the inhabitants.

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[Busy kitchen sounds]

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[Sudden calm, birds singing]

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[Andy off]:
In 2010,

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before 2010,
there were approximately

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2000 hotel rooms
in the country.

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With the earthquake,

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most of them were destroyed,
there were 800 to 1000 left,

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Today in 2015

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we have 8068
rooms in Haiti.

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Investment in the hotel industry

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goes very fast.

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Looking at 2016,

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next year,

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we've estimated,

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to have 3210 rooms.

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New hotel rooms.

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A $372 million investment

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with approximately,
3,350 direct jobs

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and 10,050 indirect jobs.

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[A]: Since three
or four years back,

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the Ministry of Tourism

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wants

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to develop

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a series of strategies to

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call more tourism in Haiti.

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On 2012,

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2013,

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we contacted a company

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with which we launched
the initial plan of Île-à-Vache.

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A plan to
develop the resources,

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but respecting
Île-à-Vache's nature,

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without denaturing the island.

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[F]: It is the only island in Haiti,

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I mean it...

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Now that
we are going to build ...

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It is the only ministry,

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and I'm going to congratulate
the Ministry of Tourism,

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who has developed
a concept

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of land use planning.

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Whoever you listen to:

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It's very complicated!

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They came to an island,

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they measured it,

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they decided and defined

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all the areas
which can be accessed

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to build a plan.

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Here, you can see:

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The agricultural area
it's well located;

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the hotel zone

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Look at it!

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all is numbered.

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We have to achieve
that when tourists arrive

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everything they eat,

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will come from Île-à-Vache
and its surroundings.

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Now, it is not like that.

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[Sanding sounds]

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[Calm birds ambience]

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[D]: We work with
Haiti's Tourism Association,

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that is part of
the international associations;

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but it is difficult
to develop Haiti,

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such is its exterior image,

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it does not correspond

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to nowadays necessities.

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The kind of development
the Ministry of Tourism can do

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It is very difficult...

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It will take time.

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[Nostalgic calm piano]

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[driving electronic rhythm crescendo]

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[music fades out]

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[fishermen voices hauling boat]

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- Straight!

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[water sloshes, net hauling]

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- COME ON!

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[boat dragged ashore] 

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- Has any stick come out?

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- Yes, put it in the front.

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- Pick it up, please.

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- Come on!

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- When I want to travel
I don't get money.

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- You're young.

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- Drop it!

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- It's hooked, see?
- No, it's not

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- Yes, It won't go.

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- Yes, It's hooked.

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[kids playing ambience]

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[Jerome]:
If the owner is a foreigner

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they pay any price.

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[Gilbert]:
They do.

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[J]: But for you,
doing all the unpleasant work

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US$ 4.5

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They just pay you that

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so you won't be
able to improve.

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[G]: Yes.
[J]: Do you get it?

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[J]: Those coming to your place

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if you tell them
that a coke is US$ 4

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it's very expensive,
but in Abaka Hotel

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they pay US$ 10,
without any problem!

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[G]: They have no problem,
[J]: because they are upper class.

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We have a reason,

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so that we,
as a lower class,

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decide to do something

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for the benefit of our class.

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Unfortunately,
there's always someone

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who agrees to do
anything for them.

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We should work for ourselves.

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I can not say for them.

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If you do
something for a bourgeois

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he will never agree
to pay you more.

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When he arrives
who disembarks him?

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You do it.

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He needs someone
to take his suitcase,

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someone to take his things.

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Do you understand?

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Everything is fine?

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That's the way things are.

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This requires us to
think and ponder it well.

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We have to think,

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because things will happen.

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We have to know what
and why it happens.

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[G]:  We have to be ahead.

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[J]: There are people who can

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make us confront each other.

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They do it on purpose.
[G]: You do not realize it.

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[J]: They are the ones

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that force us
to face each other.

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Do you understand?

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[Calm coastal activity]

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[Jerome off]:
My name is Jérôme Genest.

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I live in Île-â-Vache,

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It s my home,
It's here I want to live.

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It's the best for me.

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With Didier Boulard,

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who started everything
with Port Morgan Hotel,

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tourists came

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and people on the island
began to understand tourism.

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Five young
frenchmen disembarked

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looking for a place to sleep,

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any place was good.

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I offered them a room

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that was so dirty, so ugly,

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I did not accept any money.

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Back then, there were no phones,
email was unknown,

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but when they left

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they began to
send more people,

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always more.

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I said:
- I have no place, stop coming.

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and they:
-Do not worry it's alright.

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Back then we didn't have
bathrooms, they were latrines.

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I was ashamed.

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We had to get organized

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to welcome them

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professionally.

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[Loud motor ambience]

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[maffled voices over motor]

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[Gilbert off]:
I am Alexandre Julebert,

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Owner of Hotel Chic Cocotier.

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I am an expert in this.

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I know how to welcome people.

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To receive tourists

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you have to smile
all the time.

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The tourist is king.

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I see that Île-à-Vache

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wants to become

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what tourists want.

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They love Île-à-Vache.

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It is a beautiful place.

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- My grandmother
had lots of land.

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The place where Abaka Bay is
belongs to my family.

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[Tourist]: Do you have
something left to sell?

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[G]: Something is left.

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[Jerome off]
Thanks to me,

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and to others who do
the same as me,

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many more tourists
come to Haiti

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and to Île-à-Vache,

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Knowing they are
staying with locals

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at a reasonable price

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and it encourages them to come.

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I, myself, play...

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We play an important
role in tourism.

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We get them to come.

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[Tourist A]:
If "you're making"

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The gerund is "ap"

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In French it's different.

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[Haitian]: "Mwen vle kafe."
[TA]: I want coffee.

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[Tourist B]:
Have you had spaghetti?

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[Waitress]:
What are you eating?

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[Haitian off]:
Same as "tout peti"

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[TA off]: "Mwe menm tou"
Me too.

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[TB]: "Tout piti"
[TA]: A little bit.

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[TA]: I say:
"Mwen vle kafe"

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"Mèsi anpil"
Thank you so much.

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[TA]: Then in Creole
is it the same as in English?

00:18:41.078 --> 00:18:42.955
[TA]: Yes, "vini"
Come.

00:18:43.038 --> 00:18:46.208
[H]: "Mwen ap vini"
I'm going, I'll go.

00:18:54.842 --> 00:18:57.261
[Canoe paddling, calm]

00:19:01.807 --> 00:19:06.395
[Andy off]: It was enough
to come, see the landscape,

00:19:06.562 --> 00:19:10.566
meet the people,
extremely warming;

00:19:10.899 --> 00:19:14.194
and we said,
why not develop

00:19:15.112 --> 00:19:17.614
a tourist destination in Haiti?

00:19:18.198 --> 00:19:19.992
to bring more tourism,

00:19:20.159 --> 00:19:22.202
but a kind of tourism

00:19:22.744 --> 00:19:25.664
called high-end.

00:19:26.415 --> 00:19:32.254
[Loud helicopter rotors]

00:19:33.839 --> 00:19:37.217
[Waves crash loudly]

00:19:41.722 --> 00:19:45.684
[Jerome off]: The tourism
they want to develop

00:19:45.809 --> 00:19:47.519
it is not good

00:19:47.769 --> 00:19:52.816
because they will not
interact with the population.

00:19:53.066 --> 00:19:57.905
[A]: Île-à-Vache attracts
the international Jet Set,

00:19:58.030 --> 00:20:01.074
it's still not at a big size

00:20:01.658 --> 00:20:05.078
but we have had Madonna.

00:20:05.579 --> 00:20:08.624
We've been visited
by Dwyane Wade

00:20:08.749 --> 00:20:13.253
and his wife,
a very well-known actress.

00:20:14.838 --> 00:20:16.256
The Boss,

00:20:16.506 --> 00:20:18.717
an American basketball player.

00:20:18.759 --> 00:20:21.470
They have
come on vacation.

00:20:22.137 --> 00:20:24.973
They have not come
to do social work

00:20:25.098 --> 00:20:26.934
but on vacation;

00:20:27.476 --> 00:20:29.978
and they've posted it
on the internet.

00:20:30.771 --> 00:20:37.611
[windy offshore ambience]

00:20:38.362 --> 00:20:39.863
[Jerome off]:
Makes me wonder,

00:20:39.905 --> 00:20:42.616
when the
big hotel chains come

00:20:43.075 --> 00:20:45.202
they'll have a security service,

00:20:45.285 --> 00:20:49.039
They won't have
the same freedom as now.

00:20:49.414 --> 00:20:52.042
People will be
surrounded by security.

00:20:52.334 --> 00:20:56.338
It will differ from the type of
tourism that we have developed.

00:20:56.546 --> 00:20:58.382
It will be good
for the government,

00:20:58.507 --> 00:21:00.092
for hotel chains,

00:21:00.217 --> 00:21:02.219
but not for the population.

00:21:03.262 --> 00:21:06.348
[Minimal music crescendo, violins]

00:21:07.766 --> 00:21:12.688
[A]: To date, Haiti has invested
close to 8 million US dollars.

00:21:13.063 --> 00:21:16.566
on social projects.

00:21:17.985 --> 00:21:21.363
And I mean, the health center,

00:21:25.909 --> 00:21:28.245
the training schools,

00:21:28.328 --> 00:21:29.830
the Community Radio,

00:21:29.955 --> 00:21:31.999
the Community Center,

00:21:34.584 --> 00:21:38.422
I mean, the jetty
we are building,

00:21:41.425 --> 00:21:45.595
the airport
that has been done.

00:21:46.096 --> 00:21:49.099
The island has,
approximately,

00:21:49.349 --> 00:21:51.935
10,000 inhabitants,
not even 15,000

00:21:52.519 --> 00:21:55.022
and did not have
drinking water,

00:21:55.355 --> 00:21:57.107
there was no clinic,

00:21:57.190 --> 00:21:58.567
[Music fades out]

00:21:58.567 --> 00:22:00.152
no Community Radio,

00:22:00.277 --> 00:22:01.987
nothing at all.

00:22:02.112 --> 00:22:04.906
[Peaceful countryside ambience]

00:22:06.033 --> 00:22:08.035
[Gilbert]: Before,
people from the island

00:22:08.118 --> 00:22:10.078
did not travel the hole of it,

00:22:10.746 --> 00:22:13.123
because travelling 50 km.

00:22:13.707 --> 00:22:15.834
or 48 Km.

00:22:15.917 --> 00:22:18.879
on foot, was hard.

00:22:19.379 --> 00:22:22.049
You had to do it
on foot or horseback.

00:22:22.632 --> 00:22:27.637
Now, with the roads
that are being built,

00:22:28.388 --> 00:22:30.807
people know
their island better,

00:22:31.016 --> 00:22:32.559
even though,
there are small motorcycles.

00:22:32.559 --> 00:22:35.979
I expect them not too big
neither too noisy,

00:22:36.813 --> 00:22:39.858
because the island would lose

00:22:40.442 --> 00:22:41.568
value.

00:22:42.402 --> 00:22:43.904
[Woman]:
Has Bobile gone?

00:22:44.029 --> 00:22:45.072
[Distant men]:
Who?

00:22:45.113 --> 00:22:46.865
[W]: Bobile, has he left?

00:22:50.994 --> 00:22:56.041
[Busy offshore market chatter]

00:23:13.683 --> 00:23:17.938
[Soft organ piano fades in]

00:23:19.189 --> 00:23:22.776
[J-off]: They told us they
were going to do many things,

00:23:22.818 --> 00:23:24.986
that they have not done,
those are lies.

00:23:26.238 --> 00:23:28.657
A lot of money has been spent,

00:23:28.824 --> 00:23:31.785
for example on the wells.

00:23:33.453 --> 00:23:36.540
They have dug 8 wells,
US$ 50,000 each

00:23:36.748 --> 00:23:40.544
Someone working there
had told me.

00:23:41.044 --> 00:23:43.588
Eight times US$ 50,000
have been spent,

00:23:43.755 --> 00:23:46.049
and not a drop of water.

00:23:47.092 --> 00:23:49.428
Because they give salty water.

00:23:50.804 --> 00:23:52.973
[music fading evocative]

00:23:53.557 --> 00:23:58.228
[Jean off]: This project
is done in Port-au-Prince

00:23:58.728 --> 00:24:02.149
without considering
nor consulting

00:24:02.774 --> 00:24:05.652
people who
live in Île-à-Vache.

00:24:07.279 --> 00:24:10.449
It seams to go
the same way

00:24:10.657 --> 00:24:13.118
as what is being
done in the Caribbean

00:24:13.368 --> 00:24:16.079
either in
Dominican Rep. or the Bahamas...

00:24:16.997 --> 00:24:22.586
[Jerome off]: We knew
it was not a good project;

00:24:22.878 --> 00:24:25.297
and my friends
of Port-au-Prince,

00:24:26.006 --> 00:24:30.302
even people who
work in the Government,

00:24:30.385 --> 00:24:31.803
called me
to tell us

00:24:31.928 --> 00:24:35.265
that we should demonstrate
against the project.

00:24:35.348 --> 00:24:37.142
It was not good
for Île-à-Vache,

00:24:37.267 --> 00:24:39.519
it would destroy the island,

00:24:39.728 --> 00:24:42.939
corruption would happen,

00:24:43.148 --> 00:24:45.567
and many other things.

00:24:45.609 --> 00:24:47.027
Cars would enter,

00:24:47.152 --> 00:24:48.695
motorcycles too

00:24:49.154 --> 00:24:51.698
and life would be harder,

00:24:52.073 --> 00:24:54.659
because with tourists

00:24:54.993 --> 00:24:58.163
prices would double.

00:24:58.747 --> 00:25:00.957
[Gentle pipe organ hum]

00:25:03.752 --> 00:25:07.756
[Ginou]: We've done
stopovers  at Dominican Rep.

00:25:08.048 --> 00:25:10.008
and I wouldn't like

00:25:10.258 --> 00:25:12.344
the same thing to happen here.

00:25:12.344 --> 00:25:14.763
When you go to the beaches

00:25:14.804 --> 00:25:17.182
in front of the hotels
in Dominican Rep.

00:25:17.307 --> 00:25:20.602
there were armed people,
forbidding you to pass

00:25:20.727 --> 00:25:23.355
from one beach to another
from one hotel to another.

00:25:23.438 --> 00:25:27.025
and the locals
could not access anymore.

00:25:27.484 --> 00:25:30.070
nor the fishermen,

00:25:30.237 --> 00:25:32.989
they were forced
to remove the fishing nets

00:25:33.114 --> 00:25:35.784
to go somewhere else.

00:25:36.117 --> 00:25:38.578
If this is what
awaits Île-à-Vache,

00:25:38.662 --> 00:25:41.790
it's not good for them.

00:25:44.292 --> 00:25:49.506
[Muffled underwater bubbles]

00:25:52.676 --> 00:25:55.804
[J ]: So we started a group

00:25:56.888 --> 00:25:58.515
called KOPI,

00:25:58.598 --> 00:26:00.934
Peasants for Île-à-Vache
Collective

00:26:01.059 --> 00:26:06.773
to fight
against the project

00:26:07.148 --> 00:26:09.818
and what they say
they will do.

00:26:12.112 --> 00:26:16.783
To denounce what
It's truly going to be done,

00:26:16.866 --> 00:26:20.829
and we have made proposals

00:26:21.079 --> 00:26:24.249
within our demands.

00:26:24.666 --> 00:26:25.959
[Antoine]:
We KOPI,

00:26:26.668 --> 00:26:29.629
do not understand what happened.

00:26:29.879 --> 00:26:32.966
We had no explanation
for anything that was done.

00:26:33.049 --> 00:26:36.219
On August 20th,
they started a highway.

00:26:36.928 --> 00:26:38.388
They started the road.

00:26:38.430 --> 00:26:41.683
Nobody was informed.

00:26:41.808 --> 00:26:43.518
Coconut trees on the ground,

00:26:43.685 --> 00:26:44.978
banana trees smashed,

00:26:45.020 --> 00:26:46.646
people losing their crops,

00:26:46.688 --> 00:26:48.148
shattered houses.

00:26:48.315 --> 00:26:49.733
We cannot understand it.

00:26:49.858 --> 00:26:54.904
[Deep dark electronic music]

00:27:32.817 --> 00:27:43.495
[Dark music fading off]

00:27:44.496 --> 00:27:50.794
[Ambience sounds fade in]

00:27:58.802 --> 00:28:00.679
[Rilio off]:
I am Lunes Rilio,

00:28:00.929 --> 00:28:02.847
I live in Trou-Milieu,

00:28:03.348 --> 00:28:04.307
[Ominous hit with suspense]

00:28:05.392 --> 00:28:06.393
[R-off]:
exactly

00:28:08.395 --> 00:28:10.230
by the side of the road

00:28:10.647 --> 00:28:13.024
I had my house.

00:28:14.359 --> 00:28:16.903
They built the road.

00:28:17.779 --> 00:28:18.947
The tractor passed ...

00:28:19.114 --> 00:28:21.658
It destroyed all the trees
that protected the house.

00:28:22.409 --> 00:28:24.452
It passed
very close to the house,

00:28:25.120 --> 00:28:26.996
and it fell.

00:28:30.166 --> 00:28:32.502
[Marie off]:
It hit the house strongly,

00:28:32.627 --> 00:28:35.547
and dragged the earth,

00:28:36.047 --> 00:28:38.675
When I saw that
it had no resistance,

00:28:38.758 --> 00:28:39.968
that it could fall,

00:28:40.009 --> 00:28:42.554
we threw it away.
We demolished it!

00:28:45.432 --> 00:28:46.599
[Kid]:
I'm going to wash.

00:28:46.808 --> 00:28:48.768
[Sister]:
Wanna do the laundry?

00:28:48.935 --> 00:28:50.270
[K]: I'm going to wash.

00:28:50.353 --> 00:28:51.730
[Joyful laughter]

00:28:51.896 --> 00:28:53.815
[S]: Come on, start washing.

00:28:54.023 --> 00:28:56.860
[R]: I showed the Mayor
what I was going to do

00:28:57.026 --> 00:28:59.863
and the local Deputy, too.

00:29:00.155 --> 00:29:03.658
They told me that
they could help me,

00:29:03.992 --> 00:29:05.577
but then, nothing.

00:29:05.744 --> 00:29:07.036
I asked them again,

00:29:07.078 --> 00:29:08.538
I had to start.

00:29:08.788 --> 00:29:12.876
So with what I had

00:29:13.793 --> 00:29:15.378
I started.

00:29:15.712 --> 00:29:17.005
I started and

00:29:17.046 --> 00:29:19.257
and I told them
that I had started.

00:29:19.799 --> 00:29:22.177
Up to now,
nobody has shown up,

00:29:22.469 --> 00:29:23.887
neither the Mayor
nor the Deputy.

00:29:24.429 --> 00:29:26.347
The Mayor has not
paid me a cent.

00:29:26.473 --> 00:29:28.266
[Child off]:
The battery is charged.

00:29:30.769 --> 00:29:32.479
[R]: I've worked on my own.

00:29:32.562 --> 00:29:33.938
They told me they would help me,

00:29:34.105 --> 00:29:35.356
and nobody has come.

00:29:38.693 --> 00:29:40.236
[M-off]:
For the family...

00:29:41.279 --> 00:29:43.656
for this whole family.

00:29:57.003 --> 00:30:01.549
[M]: I do not know when
we'll finish.

00:30:01.633 --> 00:30:05.386
My children are sleeping
at neighbors' houses.

00:30:12.393 --> 00:30:14.938
[R-off]: Currently,
with four children

00:30:15.063 --> 00:30:17.649
studying at Les_Cayes

00:30:18.358 --> 00:30:20.735
whom I have
not been able to help.

00:30:21.027 --> 00:30:22.487
They should go to Les-Cayes.

00:30:22.612 --> 00:30:25.532
If it wasn’t for the house
they would go to school.

00:30:25.865 --> 00:30:29.202
I need money for them.

00:30:29.953 --> 00:30:34.207
Because of the house,
my children have come back.

00:30:36.042 --> 00:30:39.087
Paying for the house,
paying for their studies ...

00:30:39.379 --> 00:30:43.758
This year with the house,
I cannot do everything.

00:30:45.009 --> 00:30:46.386
I cannot pay,

00:30:46.427 --> 00:30:49.848
so my children
had to come back to live here.

00:30:51.224 --> 00:30:53.768
Look where I sleep!
In a kitchen shed

00:30:54.018 --> 00:30:55.728
with the two little ones.

00:30:56.145 --> 00:30:58.147
The old ones
are with the neighbors.

00:30:59.190 --> 00:31:01.192
[Bittersweet music fades in]

00:31:26.718 --> 00:31:30.513
[Bittersweet music fades out]

00:31:33.182 --> 00:31:35.685
[Jerome off]: Things
started quite badly,

00:31:36.019 --> 00:31:38.605
because to built such a project

00:31:38.938 --> 00:31:43.526
they should carry out
A two or three years study

00:31:43.943 --> 00:31:47.447
to know
where there is water,

00:31:47.697 --> 00:31:49.866
where to place the roads,

00:31:50.033 --> 00:31:51.409
and if they're
going to build them

00:31:51.743 --> 00:31:54.245
you have to destroy crops,

00:31:54.329 --> 00:31:56.289
cut people's trees.

00:31:56.456 --> 00:31:59.667
You must have
an eviction plan.

00:32:00.209 --> 00:32:02.629
It's an absolute disaster,
what they've done.

00:32:03.046 --> 00:32:05.340
If a government
wants to carry out

00:32:05.548 --> 00:32:06.716
an Island-wide project,

00:32:06.799 --> 00:32:08.927
we are not against it,

00:32:08.968 --> 00:32:12.472
but you first
have to carry out a study.

00:32:12.722 --> 00:32:14.098
Where do we built the road?

00:32:14.182 --> 00:32:16.768
Here,
how many crops do we lose?

00:32:16.809 --> 00:32:18.728
How many
coconut trees will be lost?

00:32:18.895 --> 00:32:21.105
Because those lands
they're going to use

00:32:21.272 --> 00:32:22.857
have not grown
by themselves.

00:32:23.858 --> 00:32:26.569
There's somebody
that has worked on it

00:32:26.778 --> 00:32:28.279
for a long time.

00:32:28.363 --> 00:32:29.238
Since long.

00:32:29.447 --> 00:32:31.032
If you are going to
take it away,

00:32:31.115 --> 00:32:33.159
you have to
talk to these people.

00:32:33.284 --> 00:32:40.500
[Distorted pulsing music fades-in]

00:32:51.844 --> 00:32:54.013
[Music fades-off]

00:32:56.182 --> 00:32:57.809
[Meritane off]:
At home?

00:32:58.059 --> 00:33:00.728
What happened?

00:33:01.145 --> 00:33:04.065
Me ... I was sitting,

00:33:04.232 --> 00:33:06.025
I see a tractor
coming.

00:33:06.067 --> 00:33:07.318
A girl.

00:33:08.027 --> 00:33:10.113
She was building the road.

00:33:10.279 --> 00:33:11.739
She destroyed
the foundations.

00:33:11.823 --> 00:33:13.408
She destroyed the house.

00:33:14.242 --> 00:33:16.244
She  put a stick to mark.

00:33:16.369 --> 00:33:22.250
If I say nothing,
she smashes it with a blow.

00:33:22.875 --> 00:33:24.419
I asked for help,

00:33:24.669 --> 00:33:26.879
so the site manager

00:33:27.463 --> 00:33:29.298
displaced
the stick a little.

00:33:29.424 --> 00:33:30.633
when he moved it,

00:33:30.758 --> 00:33:33.052
I said
- Why do you destroy my house?

00:33:33.177 --> 00:33:35.304
What do you offer me to live?

00:33:35.888 --> 00:33:37.849
She says
- It's not my thing.

00:33:37.932 --> 00:33:40.518
I obey orders.

00:33:41.185 --> 00:33:43.938
The girl was not listening..

00:33:44.063 --> 00:33:47.233
She was digging,
digging and digging.

00:33:50.069 --> 00:33:51.446
The rain!

00:33:51.612 --> 00:33:53.489
It shattered that part.

00:33:53.698 --> 00:33:55.658
The water dragged the soil.

00:33:55.908 --> 00:33:57.368
A lot of things...!

00:33:57.618 --> 00:34:00.997
I cannot...
Then the water came inside.

00:34:01.039 --> 00:34:02.582
The water entered the house,

00:34:02.707 --> 00:34:04.792
was all over the place.

00:34:05.084 --> 00:34:07.545
I have no place to go.

00:34:07.879 --> 00:34:10.089
I don't have another house.

00:34:22.226 --> 00:34:25.396
Two, three years ago,
they did this.

00:34:28.399 --> 00:34:32.737
They told me that
the one who did it is dead.

00:34:35.364 --> 00:34:38.493
.... the one who
destroyed my house died.

00:34:41.621 --> 00:34:44.082
[Distorted pulsing music fades-in]

00:34:49.295 --> 00:34:55.301
[Music fades, ambience rises]

00:35:03.726 --> 00:35:08.815
[Background radio chatter and music]

00:35:17.865 --> 00:35:20.409
[Mesura off]:
I am Mesura Mascary,

00:35:21.202 --> 00:35:24.205
I live in Île-à-Vache,

00:35:24.997 --> 00:35:27.375
I have a land,

00:35:29.418 --> 00:35:33.172
where I grew up.

00:35:33.589 --> 00:35:35.424
I am 81,

00:35:36.467 --> 00:35:40.138
and this is
where I live.

00:35:40.429 --> 00:35:43.099
I inherited it
from my parents.

00:35:43.349 --> 00:35:46.519
I cultivated the land

00:35:47.478 --> 00:35:49.647
in a way that ...

00:35:50.064 --> 00:35:52.108
I will reach an age,

00:35:52.525 --> 00:35:55.444
I won't have strength
to work the land

00:35:55.736 --> 00:35:58.239
but what
I planted in this land

00:35:58.447 --> 00:35:59.866
what I cultivated,

00:36:00.032 --> 00:36:01.784
was for my use.

00:36:18.509 --> 00:36:20.845
[Mesura off]:
First they came

00:36:21.596 --> 00:36:24.599
with some
agronomists,

00:36:24.974 --> 00:36:29.228
to tell me that
a lake was to be built here,

00:36:29.604 --> 00:36:31.439
to raise fish.

00:36:32.356 --> 00:36:33.858
I wanted them to understand

00:36:34.108 --> 00:36:35.735
that on this land

00:36:36.068 --> 00:36:37.445
I was living,

00:36:37.612 --> 00:36:39.238
that I'm old,

00:36:39.697 --> 00:36:42.617
and I cannot
work again.

00:36:43.034 --> 00:36:45.828
However
they lack awareness

00:36:45.953 --> 00:36:47.788
to realize
the age I have,

00:36:47.955 --> 00:36:49.999
I live from
these lands.

00:36:50.249 --> 00:36:52.168
They have no conscience
to tell me: - No.

00:36:52.793 --> 00:36:55.254
- Let's go elsewhere.

00:36:55.546 --> 00:36:58.716
They insisted on this place

00:36:59.175 --> 00:37:00.009
to do it.

00:37:00.092 --> 00:37:01.344
I said no,

00:37:01.552 --> 00:37:03.012
that cannot be.

00:37:03.387 --> 00:37:05.473
They did not negotiate with me,

00:37:05.598 --> 00:37:07.725
not even to tell me:
- I'm going to pay you.

00:37:08.267 --> 00:37:09.644
Not at all.

00:37:09.894 --> 00:37:11.646
On Friday, October 24th

00:37:12.813 --> 00:37:15.149
While I was on the property,

00:37:15.983 --> 00:37:18.277
Judge Fritz entered,

00:37:18.945 --> 00:37:22.073
and later on
he came with some friends,

00:37:22.949 --> 00:37:24.158
and suddenly,

00:37:24.158 --> 00:37:25.868
I see he picks up the phone,

00:37:26.118 --> 00:37:28.079
starts talking,

00:37:29.705 --> 00:37:31.999
and I see two tractors

00:37:32.250 --> 00:37:33.626
that were coming,

00:37:33.709 --> 00:37:37.338
when I look,
they were entering the property.

00:37:37.588 --> 00:37:39.090
We were my wife, me

00:37:39.298 --> 00:37:41.592
and one of my children,
that was there.

00:37:42.009 --> 00:37:44.428
When the tractor came
I said No!

00:37:44.929 --> 00:37:45.846
Stop!

00:37:48.099 --> 00:37:53.479
[Heavy excavator digging]

00:37:55.022 --> 00:37:57.358
[M]: Two police cars
came for me.

00:37:58.317 --> 00:38:00.569
They arrested me,
my wife and my son.

00:38:00.987 --> 00:38:02.446
They handcuffed me ...

00:38:04.573 --> 00:38:05.825
Anyway,

00:38:07.159 --> 00:38:08.828
It was some one else

00:38:09.328 --> 00:38:11.038
who approached him,

00:38:11.914 --> 00:38:15.209
the police commissioner,

00:38:15.376 --> 00:38:17.586
and said:
- What are you doing?

00:38:18.129 --> 00:38:20.089
He is an old man.

00:38:20.172 --> 00:38:22.633
He has cultivated that land

00:38:23.634 --> 00:38:25.636
that you have come to destroy,

00:38:25.720 --> 00:38:28.347
to take it away
without compensation,

00:38:28.472 --> 00:38:30.224
so he can live.

00:38:31.475 --> 00:38:33.436
And you handcuff him?

00:38:33.519 --> 00:38:35.563
What is the use of this arrest?

00:38:35.688 --> 00:38:37.440
Then,
the police commissioner.

00:38:37.565 --> 00:38:39.358
comes and tells

00:38:39.483 --> 00:38:40.776
the cops:

00:38:41.027 --> 00:38:43.029
-Stop this arrest!

00:38:43.487 --> 00:38:44.905
...  Meanwhile,

00:38:45.156 --> 00:38:46.866
The tractor entered,

00:38:47.199 --> 00:38:49.035
destroyed the coconut trees...

00:38:49.452 --> 00:38:51.078
It destroyed everything,

00:38:51.454 --> 00:38:52.496
everything on the ground..

00:38:52.663 --> 00:38:54.457
They have dug a lake,

00:38:54.957 --> 00:38:56.584
in my land.

00:38:56.959 --> 00:38:59.378
Up til now
nobody came to say:

00:38:59.462 --> 00:39:02.214
- As we have taken away
your means to make a living

00:39:02.340 --> 00:39:03.924
we offer you this in turn.-

00:39:04.008 --> 00:39:05.009
Up til now.

00:39:05.468 --> 00:39:08.054
[somber music pulsing plays]

00:39:27.239 --> 00:39:30.576
[excavator sounds stops music]

00:39:34.455 --> 00:39:35.790
[Mesura]:
Since October 24,

00:39:35.998 --> 00:39:38.417
and today is December 31.

00:39:38.959 --> 00:39:40.169
So...

00:39:40.669 --> 00:39:43.672
[A]: In Île-à-Vache
we're developing

00:39:43.839 --> 00:39:46.092
what is called
Agrotourism.

00:39:46.634 --> 00:39:47.718
I mean,

00:39:47.968 --> 00:39:51.389
an agriculture
based on tourism

00:39:51.639 --> 00:39:53.474
that can produce
for tourism.

00:39:53.557 --> 00:39:55.059
With the
Minister for Agriculture

00:39:55.184 --> 00:39:56.685
we have committed to

00:39:56.769 --> 00:39:59.522
make several
things in the island

00:39:59.897 --> 00:40:01.482
and build

00:40:01.816 --> 00:40:03.609
a lake on the hill

00:40:03.734 --> 00:40:05.486
for fishing.

00:40:06.195 --> 00:40:08.114
[Fresner]:
I don't want to speak badly

00:40:08.197 --> 00:40:10.032
but they throw stones here

00:40:10.032 --> 00:40:11.659
[Scattered laughter and chatting]

00:40:12.118 --> 00:40:14.286
[F off]:
Really, I almost die.

00:40:14.328 --> 00:40:15.788
Imagine me there.

00:40:15.830 --> 00:40:17.748
A stone hit him in the head

00:40:17.873 --> 00:40:19.125
in front of my eyes.

00:40:19.875 --> 00:40:21.544
This poor guy was sitting,

00:40:21.669 --> 00:40:23.629
the second stone
hit him on the back.

00:40:23.712 --> 00:40:26.465
And today, the lake that
we built on the hill ...

00:40:26.549 --> 00:40:28.259
I will take you to see it,
if possible?

00:40:28.300 --> 00:40:29.301
[Woman voice]:
Ok.

00:40:29.468 --> 00:40:31.595
[F]: Today,
they fight for it,

00:40:33.639 --> 00:40:37.017
For this lake we have payed
800,000 Gourdes.

00:40:37.309 --> 00:40:39.979
Less than US$ 13,000.

00:40:40.312 --> 00:40:43.732
If we do a research
of the service it will offer,

00:40:45.484 --> 00:40:48.529
we could evaluate it
around 1,000,000 dollars.

00:40:48.737 --> 00:40:52.450
[M]: Thank God,I had these
2 or 3 coconut trees.

00:40:53.033 --> 00:40:54.577
2 o 3.

00:40:54.869 --> 00:40:57.538
We have 8 coconut trees,

00:40:58.038 --> 00:40:59.999
I live from them now,

00:41:00.332 --> 00:41:03.002
with another
little thing I have.

00:41:03.419 --> 00:41:06.505
I live out of that.

00:41:10.551 --> 00:41:13.888
[Gentile piano music]

00:41:22.855 --> 00:41:24.815
Good morning little girl.

00:41:26.066 --> 00:41:27.526
This one,

00:41:33.949 --> 00:41:35.743
and that one there,

00:41:36.452 --> 00:41:37.369
and that one there,

00:41:38.829 --> 00:41:39.997
over there,

00:41:42.208 --> 00:41:43.918
and this,

00:41:47.838 --> 00:41:50.716
and another one
up there.

00:41:51.175 --> 00:41:54.178
Let's go see it.

00:41:54.678 --> 00:42:00.559
[Piano music fading out]

00:42:04.939 --> 00:42:08.234
[Antoine]: They step on
people to get it done.

00:42:08.734 --> 00:42:10.319
The project
Is not for us!

00:42:10.402 --> 00:42:11.779
You can see it now

00:42:11.904 --> 00:42:15.533
Fernel and the State Secretary
are not with the population.

00:42:16.158 --> 00:42:18.035
Today, we KOPI

00:42:18.327 --> 00:42:19.954
request

00:42:20.579 --> 00:42:22.039
and say

00:42:22.248 --> 00:42:23.165
that inhabitants

00:42:23.415 --> 00:42:25.417
must be considered

00:42:25.459 --> 00:42:26.794
as people.

00:42:27.086 --> 00:42:30.256
They have value as
the people in the society.

00:42:30.548 --> 00:42:33.133
We cannot
use peasants

00:42:33.592 --> 00:42:35.302
today, to say that

00:42:35.469 --> 00:42:37.763
they are not people,

00:42:38.138 --> 00:42:39.306
they are people,

00:42:39.348 --> 00:42:41.559
integrated into our society.

00:42:41.809 --> 00:42:46.605
[D]: We know there are
many investors interested

00:42:47.314 --> 00:42:49.858
but as long as the airport
is  not finished

00:42:50.359 --> 00:42:54.029
these investors
are waiting.

00:42:54.613 --> 00:42:57.616
I think that
It's a good project

00:42:57.908 --> 00:43:00.286
for the population
of Île-à-Vache

00:43:00.703 --> 00:43:02.246
[Andy]:
Now,

00:43:02.580 --> 00:43:05.624
our task in
The Ministry of Tourism

00:43:05.958 --> 00:43:07.668
is to create
that confidence

00:43:07.793 --> 00:43:09.169
in the investors,

00:43:09.253 --> 00:43:10.588
to make them see

00:43:10.629 --> 00:43:12.715
that Île-à-Vache
it is a viable product.

00:43:12.798 --> 00:43:14.717
A product with future,

00:43:14.925 --> 00:43:17.177
a product that will be

00:43:17.928 --> 00:43:19.972
the product of the Caribbean

00:43:20.097 --> 00:43:21.849
within the next
10 or 15 years.

00:43:22.433 --> 00:43:25.811
[somber music pulsing plays]

00:43:48.959 --> 00:43:50.502
[Music fades out]

00:43:50.669 --> 00:43:52.755
[Student]: We are
all victims here.

00:43:53.339 --> 00:43:54.715
So far,

00:43:55.716 --> 00:43:57.635
Neither the government

00:43:57.718 --> 00:44:01.055
nor any
International Organization,

00:44:02.514 --> 00:44:04.016
has told us anything,

00:44:04.183 --> 00:44:06.226
They have left us
helpless,

00:44:06.352 --> 00:44:08.854
If you visit the island,

00:44:09.438 --> 00:44:11.148
we have lost
many coconut trees

00:44:11.774 --> 00:44:13.108
that were our sustenance,

00:44:13.359 --> 00:44:15.986
thanks to them we paid
our children's education,

00:44:16.070 --> 00:44:17.237
our food,

00:44:17.404 --> 00:44:18.989
thanks to them we survived.

00:44:19.198 --> 00:44:20.699
[Peasant 1]:
I've lost a land.

00:44:20.908 --> 00:44:22.534
Everybody
has been paid but me,

00:44:22.576 --> 00:44:24.703
and this man.

00:44:24.995 --> 00:44:27.289
[S]:  Many people
have not been paid.

00:44:27.456 --> 00:44:29.416
[P1]: Yes, there're nine
that haven’t been paid.

00:44:29.500 --> 00:44:32.294
[S]: You cannot know
how many are missing.

00:44:33.128 --> 00:44:36.382
[Peasant 2]:  I had two lands,
that tractors destroyed,

00:44:36.799 --> 00:44:39.468
they say
they're going to pay us,

00:44:39.593 --> 00:44:40.886
and we have not seen a coin.

00:44:41.053 --> 00:44:43.305
[P3]:  It's better to die.
- I had 14 trees ...

00:44:43.389 --> 00:44:45.599
[P2]: The job
they could offer now,

00:44:45.849 --> 00:44:48.268
so people
could earn something,

00:44:48.435 --> 00:44:50.562
in exchange for
what has been lost.

00:44:50.688 --> 00:44:52.106
When you ask for work,

00:44:52.147 --> 00:44:53.732
they don't take
people from here,

00:44:53.816 --> 00:44:55.609
they take
people from outside.

00:44:55.859 --> 00:44:58.278
Now that we are here,

00:44:58.529 --> 00:45:01.949
If you can help us
to live somewhere else,

00:45:02.199 --> 00:45:03.617
we would be very happy

00:45:03.909 --> 00:45:05.452
[P3 off]:
I had a property,

00:45:05.536 --> 00:45:07.162
they took it from me,

00:45:07.454 --> 00:45:09.289
two years ago,

00:45:10.416 --> 00:45:12.960
I have never
made a living from it again,

00:45:13.669 --> 00:45:16.088
everything they have done,

00:45:16.588 --> 00:45:18.006
they've done it there.

00:45:18.048 --> 00:45:19.633
They tell me
they will come

00:45:19.758 --> 00:45:21.677
but I got
nothing in return.

00:45:21.885 --> 00:45:23.762
[Peasant 4]:
I've lost everything.

00:45:23.887 --> 00:45:26.932
My children would study
to support me in the future.

00:45:27.057 --> 00:45:29.268
I will not be able to do it,
because there is nothing left.

00:45:29.393 --> 00:45:30.644
Look at the coconuts trees.

00:45:30.769 --> 00:45:33.188
[P5]: They say there're
500 people working here,

00:45:33.313 --> 00:45:34.189
every day.

00:45:34.314 --> 00:45:36.942
There is not even 10
working per day.

00:45:37.776 --> 00:45:39.236
I wonder,

00:45:39.319 --> 00:45:42.322
is there somebody
to guide us?

00:45:42.448 --> 00:45:44.408
Many young people
who want to work

00:45:44.450 --> 00:45:47.619
they cannot even find
jobs to feed themselves.

00:45:47.703 --> 00:45:50.706
I see they take
people from outside,

00:45:50.914 --> 00:45:54.835
everyone from here
has been thrown out.

00:45:55.377 --> 00:45:57.337
I do not see any change for us.

00:45:57.379 --> 00:46:00.048
[P1]: They took my land.
close to my house,

00:46:00.257 --> 00:46:01.884
they took it ...
I had bought it!

00:46:01.967 --> 00:46:03.802
they have built
the airport there..

00:46:03.969 --> 00:46:05.888
Two and a half hectares,
I used to harvest.

00:46:06.013 --> 00:46:07.639
and they took them,
the whole!

00:46:07.765 --> 00:46:09.683
I have nowhere to grow.

00:46:11.059 --> 00:46:12.603
[P3]: Me too.

00:46:12.853 --> 00:46:14.772
[P1]: It's the State!
[P3]: They should do it right.

00:46:14.938 --> 00:46:17.024
[S]: There are people threatened,

00:46:17.149 --> 00:46:19.067
fearing they will
tear down their houses,

00:46:19.234 --> 00:46:21.945
and up til now
they have not been informed.

00:46:22.237 --> 00:46:23.572
Overall

00:46:23.739 --> 00:46:27.242
it's been a year
with no rain in Île-à-Vache.

00:46:27.534 --> 00:46:29.828
We are in
a difficult situation.

00:46:30.037 --> 00:46:31.914
There is no corn,
there is no millet,

00:46:32.039 --> 00:46:33.457
no potatoes,

00:46:33.624 --> 00:46:36.502
which are the basics of life.

00:46:36.752 --> 00:46:38.128
We think,

00:46:38.253 --> 00:46:39.963
in behalf of the victims,

00:46:40.088 --> 00:46:42.800
they should
respond urgently,

00:46:43.258 --> 00:46:46.678
to help those
who live on the island.

00:46:47.638 --> 00:46:51.058
We from Île-à-Vache,
are we not people?

00:46:51.099 --> 00:46:53.018
Don't we need to survive?

00:46:53.185 --> 00:46:57.064
If we see
how life is here,

00:46:57.439 --> 00:47:00.484
not even a dog

00:47:00.984 --> 00:47:03.028
lives as we do.

00:47:03.153 --> 00:47:04.029
Hunger.

00:47:04.154 --> 00:47:05.239
Misery...

00:47:07.866 --> 00:47:15.165
[Gentile piano music]

00:48:31.408 --> 00:48:36.580
[Music fades out]

00:48:38.206 --> 00:48:43.420
[Children chattering distantly]

00:48:53.347 --> 00:48:55.974
- Do you have a coin?

00:48:56.183 --> 00:48:58.185
for Tanie.

00:49:00.604 --> 00:49:02.689
[Woman]:
Cut this.

00:49:09.529 --> 00:49:11.907
[W]: Bring me a gallon of water.

00:49:15.744 --> 00:49:19.289
[Knife sharpening sound]

00:49:20.791 --> 00:49:22.084
[W]: Give me that.

00:49:22.334 --> 00:49:24.169
[Men off]:
This is not good, is it?

00:49:24.252 --> 00:49:25.587
[Child off]:
Just the poop is wasted.

00:49:25.754 --> 00:49:27.589
[M]:  Just the poop is wasted.

00:49:31.677 --> 00:49:33.428
[Child off]:
See, I came for this.

00:49:36.598 --> 00:49:37.975
[W]: They must respect us.

00:49:38.058 --> 00:49:40.018
If they respect us, ok.

00:49:45.691 --> 00:49:52.656
[Insistent honking]

00:49:58.286 --> 00:50:01.164
[Antoine off]:
When they arrived they told us

00:50:01.206 --> 00:50:02.833
that to their understanding,

00:50:02.958 --> 00:50:05.085
either we wanted
or not,

00:50:05.168 --> 00:50:07.129
the project will be done
no matter how.

00:50:07.379 --> 00:50:09.464
We said:
We do not understand!

00:50:09.673 --> 00:50:10.674
[Camera clicks with tension drone]

00:50:13.176 --> 00:50:17.639
[Jean-Fénèl]:
Today it's a reality, a dream.

00:50:19.057 --> 00:50:20.851
[Shutter bursts amid applause]

00:50:27.190 --> 00:50:30.736
[A]: With a Decree-Law
of May 10, 2013

00:50:30.986 --> 00:50:34.114
in which they removed
all our goods in the island,

00:50:34.489 --> 00:50:36.033
all our goods.

00:50:36.199 --> 00:50:37.534
We took a step

00:50:37.659 --> 00:50:40.203
on December 21, 2013.

00:50:40.328 --> 00:50:42.205
We held a first meeting

00:50:42.289 --> 00:50:45.208
for those
worried about Île-à-Vache.

00:50:45.417 --> 00:50:47.252
to assume
the destiny of their country.

00:50:47.586 --> 00:50:50.672
The first demonstration
was December 27, 2013,

00:50:51.548 --> 00:50:54.134
there were
7,000 to 8,000 people

00:50:54.259 --> 00:50:57.012
who came
to support KOPI's ideas.

00:50:57.846 --> 00:51:02.601
[somber music pulsing plays]

00:51:03.101 --> 00:51:07.355
[Indistintic chatter] 

00:51:08.398 --> 00:51:11.818
[A]: It's the first time,
that a group of peasants,

00:51:12.194 --> 00:51:13.695
in the South Department

00:51:13.904 --> 00:51:15.989
forces a Minister to travel

00:51:16.114 --> 00:51:17.574
to provide explanations.

00:51:18.033 --> 00:51:20.452
♪... my time has not come,

00:51:20.744 --> 00:51:23.455
and you ask me to leave...♪

00:51:23.497 --> 00:51:25.373
[Horns amid crowd singing]

00:51:25.373 --> 00:51:27.334
- Look at people!

00:51:27.793 --> 00:51:29.002
Look at them!

00:51:29.169 --> 00:51:31.713
♪ Friend don't do this to me ♪

00:51:32.172 --> 00:51:36.009
'The plan of Île-à-Vache
will bring a better life.'

00:51:36.134 --> 00:51:41.556
'The Martelly-Lamothe Government
is with us. Let's go with them.'

00:51:43.767 --> 00:51:45.018
[Antoine off]:
We saw that

00:51:45.018 --> 00:51:47.479
the island was being sold
for 50 renewable years,

00:51:47.646 --> 00:51:50.607
they were going to put us
in three developments,

00:51:50.649 --> 00:51:52.609
we are not used to that.

00:51:52.818 --> 00:51:56.279
They were going to built
300 apartments.

00:51:56.404 --> 00:51:57.572
We said No!

00:51:57.614 --> 00:51:58.865
The people of Île-à-Vache

00:51:59.074 --> 00:52:01.284
they cannot live
in developments.

00:52:01.409 --> 00:52:03.703
[Megaphone]:
Go home!

00:52:04.204 --> 00:52:06.998
Île-à-Vache is not for sale,
neither retail nor wholesale.

00:52:07.124 --> 00:52:09.793
let's go home,
but we keep fighting.

00:52:09.876 --> 00:52:11.378
[A-off]:
On February 8

00:52:12.129 --> 00:52:15.298
Île-à-Vache meets 120

00:52:15.757 --> 00:52:18.969
VIM, SIMO and UDMO
[Special police forces]

00:52:19.803 --> 00:52:23.682
which is
the most aggressive corp.

00:52:24.349 --> 00:52:26.268
who enter with force

00:52:26.518 --> 00:52:30.772
threatening the elderly

00:52:30.897 --> 00:52:32.732
even children at school.

00:52:32.816 --> 00:52:34.734
Armed chiefs
to the teeth,

00:52:34.818 --> 00:52:36.528
they entered
in a school;

00:52:36.653 --> 00:52:38.655
the children were running,

00:52:38.864 --> 00:52:41.199
kicks,
children on the floor,

00:52:41.658 --> 00:52:43.160
something never seen.

00:52:43.410 --> 00:52:47.038
[Protesters chanting slogans]

00:52:53.253 --> 00:52:55.755
[Ysmàel]:
We at Île-à-Vache,

00:52:56.339 --> 00:52:57.799
we have come together

00:52:58.049 --> 00:53:00.093
and we will
continue like this.

00:53:00.635 --> 00:53:03.430
We ask three things to the
Martelly-Lamothe government

00:53:03.597 --> 00:53:06.474
before we
sit down to negotiate.

00:53:07.267 --> 00:53:10.228
We ask them to
withdraw the Decree-Law

00:53:10.395 --> 00:53:13.523
that takes away
our land.

00:53:13.857 --> 00:53:16.359
We ask them to release
Jean "Martinez" Lamy.

00:53:16.693 --> 00:53:19.487
A policeman on duty
from Île-à-vache.

00:53:19.905 --> 00:53:22.032
He became very involved

00:53:22.574 --> 00:53:24.409
to ask the government

00:53:24.576 --> 00:53:26.119
not to go that way.

00:53:26.578 --> 00:53:27.954
Now, they've arrested him,

00:53:28.079 --> 00:53:31.208
they've put him badly
in the national prison.

00:53:31.374 --> 00:53:33.627
♪ Lock "Ti Fernel" up
release "Martinez"♪

00:53:33.919 --> 00:53:36.588
♪ Lock "Ti Fernel" up
release "Martinez"♪

00:53:36.755 --> 00:53:40.508
♪ Lock "Ti Fernel" up
release "Martinez"♪

00:53:41.843 --> 00:53:53.438
'We call on Martelly-Lamothe to
withdraw the decree of May 10.'

00:53:54.856 --> 00:53:57.943
♪ Lock "Ti Fernel" up
release "Martinez"♪

00:53:58.443 --> 00:54:01.696
[Y-off]: Things are happening
that never did before.

00:54:01.780 --> 00:54:04.115
People of Île-à-Vache
never went into demonstrations

00:54:04.199 --> 00:54:05.533
to ask for food,

00:54:05.617 --> 00:54:07.953
or to say
they are hungry.

00:54:08.078 --> 00:54:10.747
They've never asked
anything to any government.

00:54:10.789 --> 00:54:11.915
But today,

00:54:12.707 --> 00:54:15.085
[Protesters singing]

00:54:15.752 --> 00:54:18.046
[Y-off]:
we have united,

00:54:18.296 --> 00:54:19.673
we have spoken out,

00:54:19.756 --> 00:54:20.799
to tell

00:54:20.799 --> 00:54:22.634
Martelly-Lamothe's Government:

00:54:22.717 --> 00:54:24.678
Think carefully
about what's happening,

00:54:25.053 --> 00:54:26.638
because we on the island

00:54:27.138 --> 00:54:29.182
we are willing
to collaborate

00:54:29.349 --> 00:54:32.519
but we're not going
to accept to move

00:54:33.019 --> 00:54:36.106
or lose our lands.

00:54:38.275 --> 00:54:43.405
[Excavator engines roaring]

00:54:47.659 --> 00:54:50.453
[A]: We had to ask
a third point:

00:54:50.996 --> 00:54:54.833
Withdrawal
of the agents of war.

00:54:55.959 --> 00:54:58.169
In Île-à-Vache
we all feel family.

00:54:58.420 --> 00:55:00.588
Friends and family,
nobody else.

00:55:00.922 --> 00:55:03.300
No deaths by machetes,

00:55:03.758 --> 00:55:06.678
that you get up
and there are shots. No!

00:55:07.262 --> 00:55:08.596
We are accustomed to

00:55:08.763 --> 00:55:11.599
spend 3 or 4 months
with no police.

00:55:12.892 --> 00:55:15.979
Police
work 15 days out,

00:55:16.104 --> 00:55:18.648
15 days or 6 months
vacation.

00:55:19.232 --> 00:55:21.192
All these are threats.

00:55:23.778 --> 00:55:27.115
I mean,
the pressure has increased.

00:55:27.449 --> 00:55:29.868
The Martelly-Lamothe Government,

00:55:30.035 --> 00:55:31.536
It is based on three things:

00:55:31.786 --> 00:55:33.038
Which?

00:55:33.079 --> 00:55:34.456
Repression,

00:55:34.539 --> 00:55:35.915
corruption,

00:55:35.999 --> 00:55:37.375
and propaganda.

00:55:40.003 --> 00:55:47.469
[Motorboat crossing calmly] 

00:56:12.994 --> 00:56:15.538
[Radio voices]:

00:56:15.997 --> 00:56:19.876
... not only they vote on
Prime Minister laws,

00:56:20.085 --> 00:56:23.380
they approve national budget.

00:56:23.505 --> 00:56:26.299
They argue about it
in the parliament,

00:56:26.424 --> 00:56:28.676
laws are voted
each mandate.

00:56:28.885 --> 00:56:31.304
We know how
the Parliament works,

00:56:31.429 --> 00:56:32.639
particularly the Senate,

00:56:32.722 --> 00:56:34.432
with reference to
the six senators,

00:56:34.516 --> 00:56:37.227
what strategy
should they follow?

00:56:37.519 --> 00:56:39.562
- They should consider that

00:56:39.896 --> 00:56:43.149
It's been two years
we should've had elections,

00:56:43.358 --> 00:56:46.486
to understand the sacrifice
this country puts up with.

00:56:47.028 --> 00:56:49.155
They said
they needed to know

00:56:49.239 --> 00:56:51.908
what's it gonna be
of the Parliament,

00:56:52.158 --> 00:56:54.369
and yesterday,
the Head of State,

00:56:54.452 --> 00:56:56.037
with the
three branches of power,

00:56:56.079 --> 00:56:57.122
they met

00:56:57.372 --> 00:57:00.625
and prolonged the
parliamentary mandate

00:57:00.834 --> 00:57:02.669
thanks to an agreement.

00:57:03.837 --> 00:57:09.759
The Head of State applies
the constitution strictly.

00:57:10.385 --> 00:57:12.178
The Prime Minister has resigned.

00:57:12.303 --> 00:57:14.097
This is very serious!

00:57:14.889 --> 00:57:16.808
In the Parliament
we have a big problem,

00:57:17.016 --> 00:57:18.768
also in the Senate,

00:57:18.935 --> 00:57:20.103
there are some
senators who

00:57:20.478 --> 00:57:23.440
do always the same,

00:57:23.898 --> 00:57:25.942
because in the
moment we live,

00:57:26.067 --> 00:57:30.029
they are unable
to discuss or debate.

00:57:30.196 --> 00:57:32.574
They will create violence,
they will burn wheels,

00:57:32.657 --> 00:57:34.909
they will burn cars, things,

00:57:35.076 --> 00:57:36.744
rob people.

00:57:37.495 --> 00:57:38.788
To prevent it,

00:57:39.247 --> 00:57:41.666
today December 30,

00:57:41.875 --> 00:57:43.334
we must
make peace,

00:57:43.376 --> 00:57:45.253
understand
each other in harmony,

00:57:45.378 --> 00:57:48.548
to hold the elections.

00:57:48.965 --> 00:57:50.216
The Prime Minister

00:57:50.383 --> 00:57:52.385
has to lead the way
to those elections

00:57:52.719 --> 00:57:54.387
with the President.

00:57:54.429 --> 00:57:56.306
The President
recommended that,

00:57:56.389 --> 00:57:58.099
to do it right,

00:57:58.266 --> 00:57:59.267
the elections;

00:57:59.517 --> 00:58:00.894
and the Head of Government

00:58:00.977 --> 00:58:03.438
with the K.E.P.
[Provisional Electoral Council]

00:58:03.563 --> 00:58:04.397
have to do it.

00:58:04.647 --> 00:58:06.649
To sum up,
the Head of State

00:58:06.816 --> 00:58:09.819
has done
all possible concessions.

00:58:10.528 --> 00:58:12.030
We will see now

00:58:12.363 --> 00:58:13.448
what will happen?

00:58:13.615 --> 00:58:16.784
How will the Parliament react?

00:58:16.784 --> 00:58:18.995
[radio fades out]

00:58:21.706 --> 00:58:24.542
[Soft piano keys]

00:58:40.725 --> 00:58:43.228
[music off]

00:58:43.478 --> 00:58:46.022
[A]: We are not at
war with the government,

00:58:46.147 --> 00:58:47.649
we are not at war with

00:58:47.815 --> 00:58:50.818
those who think differently.

00:58:51.528 --> 00:58:52.737
Now it's clear,

00:58:52.862 --> 00:58:54.906
they have realized,

00:58:55.406 --> 00:58:57.867
they have seen that
they've lost participation

00:58:58.034 --> 00:58:58.868
in the project.

00:58:59.786 --> 00:59:00.954
[M]: Apart from KOPI,

00:59:01.037 --> 00:59:02.038
I would like to tell you,

00:59:02.497 --> 00:59:04.374
it is a cooperative

00:59:05.208 --> 00:59:07.919
that the State
don't wanna see.

00:59:08.294 --> 00:59:11.506
With a man
called "Martinez" Lamy,

00:59:11.839 --> 00:59:13.675
They managed to...

00:59:15.009 --> 00:59:18.680
When he was in
Port-Prince, for work...

00:59:19.389 --> 00:59:20.598
they arrested him there.

00:59:20.682 --> 00:59:22.433
He has been
10 months in jail.

00:59:22.517 --> 00:59:24.018
But right now,

00:59:24.269 --> 00:59:26.354
after making
lots of noise,

00:59:27.855 --> 00:59:30.108
other countries
when alerted,

00:59:30.149 --> 00:59:31.317
started to talk

00:59:31.359 --> 00:59:32.735
and then,
they released him.

00:59:33.319 --> 00:59:36.072
[Martinez]: It was
an agreement achieved

00:59:36.656 --> 00:59:39.158
in a consultative committee

00:59:39.867 --> 00:59:42.287
established  by
President Martelly

00:59:42.412 --> 00:59:45.873
to get along
with the opposition.

00:59:46.583 --> 00:59:48.876
Starting an
Election process

00:59:49.002 --> 00:59:50.628
for a new
Prime Minister

00:59:50.795 --> 00:59:51.713
and also

00:59:51.796 --> 00:59:53.172
they demanded
Lamothe's resignation

00:59:53.298 --> 00:59:54.424
as prime minister

00:59:54.507 --> 00:59:55.758
and the Government's.

00:59:55.925 --> 00:59:58.386
So it would arrive
another prime minister.

00:59:58.469 --> 01:00:01.097
[M]: KOPI is a collective

01:00:01.222 --> 01:00:04.267
they refuse to hear from,
they hate it.

01:00:04.392 --> 01:00:06.853
[M]: I'm the third political
prisoner  to be released.

01:00:06.978 --> 01:00:10.898
[A]: We ask for the release of
"Martinez" from February 21

01:00:11.566 --> 01:00:13.276
2014

01:00:13.568 --> 01:00:18.364
until December 12, 2014.

01:00:19.282 --> 01:00:20.533
10 months passed,

01:00:20.575 --> 01:00:21.826
exactly.

01:00:21.993 --> 01:00:23.911
[Crowd clapping]

01:00:26.289 --> 01:00:27.707
[Martinez]:
I would like to thank you

01:00:27.832 --> 01:00:30.376
because while
I was arrested,

01:00:30.668 --> 01:00:32.253
my gratitude

01:00:32.378 --> 01:00:34.088
was for you.

01:00:34.255 --> 01:00:35.673
I'm very much

01:00:36.007 --> 01:00:37.967
proud of you.

01:00:38.426 --> 01:00:40.345
Proud of you!

01:00:41.554 --> 01:00:44.182
My moral never
decayed in jail,

01:00:44.349 --> 01:00:47.685
knowing
how you were fighting.

01:00:48.353 --> 01:00:52.315
With the arrest warrant
for the KOPI team,

01:00:52.815 --> 01:00:55.360
even when
they entered their homes

01:00:55.526 --> 01:00:56.986
and they destroyed them,

01:00:57.070 --> 01:00:59.572
the team
has remained strong.

01:00:59.989 --> 01:01:02.659
This fight is not only ours,

01:01:02.867 --> 01:01:05.578
there are many others
who are joining it.

01:01:06.704 --> 01:01:10.708
It's a whole
human rights network

01:01:10.875 --> 01:01:12.126
from Haiti

01:01:12.210 --> 01:01:13.294
and from outside,

01:01:13.378 --> 01:01:15.505
who have shown solidarity.

01:01:15.755 --> 01:01:18.716
Everyone who knows
that you are peasants

01:01:19.008 --> 01:01:21.886
and knows the fight
you bear to survive,

01:01:22.178 --> 01:01:23.888
have supported us

01:01:25.014 --> 01:01:26.808
and helped us.

01:01:27.225 --> 01:01:29.519
It is important
to meet people

01:01:29.644 --> 01:01:31.312
who can help us.

01:01:32.188 --> 01:01:35.024
[M]: It is thought that without
Lamothe, as prime minister,

01:01:35.149 --> 01:01:37.402
project will not be done.
It isn't so.

01:01:37.694 --> 01:01:40.488
Lamothe is always with Martelly.

01:01:41.197 --> 01:01:45.159
If Martelly is president
Lamothe will have power.

01:01:45.493 --> 01:01:46.869
It will continue to have power

01:01:47.036 --> 01:01:50.540
because right now
can commit more crimes.

01:01:52.875 --> 01:01:55.086
He was prime minister

01:01:55.169 --> 01:01:57.213
which means
to follow some rules.

01:01:57.338 --> 01:02:00.258
If he is not so,
don't lose sight of him.

01:02:00.550 --> 01:02:02.885
Lamothe is someone
with a lot of money.

01:02:02.969 --> 01:02:05.596
Lamothe pays $ 8 Millions

01:02:05.638 --> 01:02:06.639
for the project,

01:02:06.639 --> 01:02:09.559
there is $ 19 millions
from the Petrocaribe fund

01:02:09.684 --> 01:02:11.769
to do that
small platform there.

01:02:11.936 --> 01:02:13.104
$ 19 millions!

01:02:13.229 --> 01:02:15.898
They offered $ 27 millions
from Petrocaribe fonds

01:02:16.649 --> 01:02:20.278
Lamothe gives Estrella
$ 19 millions,

01:02:20.445 --> 01:02:23.614
the $ 8 millions left
go to his pocket.

01:02:24.365 --> 01:02:27.618
Even though I was in jail,
I was still in the resistance.

01:02:27.869 --> 01:02:29.412
We planned it together,

01:02:29.579 --> 01:02:32.123
I planned it with Ginald
that very morning.

01:02:32.290 --> 01:02:34.667
In the afternoon
Ginald died

01:02:34.876 --> 01:02:37.253
because we planned
the strategy

01:02:37.378 --> 01:02:40.965
so that they'd withdraw
from Mesura's land.

01:02:41.799 --> 01:02:47.054
'The fight is not over'

01:02:47.597 --> 01:02:53.102
'Good bye Ginald,
We will never forget you.'

01:02:53.436 --> 01:02:57.690
[Traditional chanting]

01:02:57.815 --> 01:02:59.692
♪ The blow hurts,

01:02:59.692 --> 01:03:01.152
if I do not die this year,

01:03:01.194 --> 01:03:02.320
I will live with it.

01:03:02.487 --> 01:03:03.905
Friends, they have hit us,

01:03:03.988 --> 01:03:05.114
and it hurts.♪

01:03:05.198 --> 01:03:07.408
[Jerome off]:
Ginald, knew that

01:03:07.575 --> 01:03:09.452
we had to fight

01:03:09.702 --> 01:03:13.706
against the project
that was presented.

01:03:13.998 --> 01:03:16.876
So he became
president of KOPI:

01:03:16.959 --> 01:03:19.086
Collective for 'Île-à-Vache.

01:03:19.253 --> 01:03:21.088
December 27th

01:03:21.297 --> 01:03:24.133
we made the
first protest march,

01:03:24.258 --> 01:03:27.678
in which we gather
a lot of people,

01:03:27.845 --> 01:03:29.847
Ginald was in the lead

01:03:29.972 --> 01:03:33.643
defending the community.

01:03:33.643 --> 01:03:34.727
[Traditional chanting]

01:03:34.727 --> 01:03:36.562
♪ I'm going to fly, fly.!

01:03:37.438 --> 01:03:39.232
Let me fly

01:03:39.357 --> 01:03:41.234
I'm going to
leave your country...♪

01:03:41.359 --> 01:03:45.238
[A-off]: They were going to take
the land of Mesura Mascary

01:03:45.404 --> 01:03:47.406
to build
an artificial lake.

01:03:48.115 --> 01:03:52.328
To plan it,
we met in Les-Cayes,

01:03:52.912 --> 01:03:55.706
Saturday May 2.

01:03:56.749 --> 01:03:58.417
8:00 - 8:30 am.
The accident!

01:03:58.543 --> 01:04:01.128
9:00 Saturday.
Death.

01:04:02.338 --> 01:04:05.132
but when we saw him
thrown on the floor,

01:04:05.967 --> 01:04:07.718
head and body shattered.

01:04:07.927 --> 01:04:09.387
We do not have evidence,

01:04:09.428 --> 01:04:11.097
let's say it was an accident,

01:04:11.264 --> 01:04:12.765
but it's suspicious ...

01:04:13.349 --> 01:04:15.518
When we arrived
at the General Hospital

01:04:15.643 --> 01:04:18.312
everything was cordoned off
by the Special Forces.

01:04:20.106 --> 01:04:22.358
[Silence]

01:04:22.942 --> 01:04:25.987
[Martinez]:
Too bad he died,

01:04:27.238 --> 01:04:29.448
Because
for this interview,

01:04:29.824 --> 01:04:31.826
Ginald as
President of KOPI

01:04:32.159 --> 01:04:34.245
would've been
the right one.

01:04:34.745 --> 01:04:37.039
I ask you not to surrender,

01:04:37.248 --> 01:04:38.916
to keep fighting

01:04:39.375 --> 01:04:41.752
until victory.

01:04:41.878 --> 01:04:44.422
Thanks and
Long live the resistance!

01:04:47.091 --> 01:04:48.092
[Theater play singing]:

01:04:48.801 --> 01:04:50.845
♪ We come from far away.

01:04:50.928 --> 01:04:53.306
We come from far away.
Listen!

01:04:53.806 --> 01:04:56.267
We come from far away.

01:04:56.434 --> 01:04:57.518
Listen!

01:04:58.978 --> 01:05:00.563
We come from far away,.♪

01:05:01.147 --> 01:05:02.398
...

01:05:05.359 --> 01:05:08.154
♪ from across the seas.

01:05:08.696 --> 01:05:11.032
We come from far away. Listen!

01:05:11.365 --> 01:05:13.367
We come from far away.♪

01:05:17.038 --> 01:05:26.380
[Melacholic xylophone tune]

01:05:55.618 --> 01:06:02.917
[Melody fades to flock chirps]

01:06:06.462 --> 01:06:10.424
[Andy off]: Lots to do
so everyone is happy.

01:06:11.676 --> 01:06:17.723
there is a challenge,
to integrate the population.

01:06:18.224 --> 01:06:19.892
make them understand that

01:06:20.059 --> 01:06:22.728
that is a
project for them.

01:06:24.647 --> 01:06:27.233
We know that there have been

01:06:27.483 --> 01:06:29.276
many maneuvers,

01:06:29.819 --> 01:06:31.278
unluckily,

01:06:31.404 --> 01:06:33.322
they have done
believe the population

01:06:33.489 --> 01:06:36.242
that the project
would be done without them.

01:06:37.118 --> 01:06:41.205
We have no intention
of kicking people off.

01:06:43.082 --> 01:06:44.083
[Heavy equipment rumble]

01:07:01.392 --> 01:07:03.269
[Martinez's Dad]:
The law in this country says:

01:07:03.519 --> 01:07:05.730
if this tree
belongs to the state

01:07:06.147 --> 01:07:07.398
... It's of public utility.

01:07:07.648 --> 01:07:09.066
But this tree,

01:07:09.316 --> 01:07:10.985
the law says
that the State must

01:07:11.068 --> 01:07:12.445
pay first of all.

01:07:12.737 --> 01:07:14.822
Once paid,
they can tear it.

01:07:15.948 --> 01:07:18.576
They cannot beat us
if they did not pay

01:07:18.659 --> 01:07:20.036
You have to compensate them.

01:07:20.244 --> 01:07:22.079
Even if you shoot me,
I will not shut up.

01:07:22.705 --> 01:07:27.126
[Heavy equipment rumble]

01:07:44.393 --> 01:07:46.228
[MD]: You have to do the same
as in Santo Domingo,

01:07:46.312 --> 01:07:47.563
tell them
to leave,

01:07:47.688 --> 01:07:48.856
Throw them out.

01:08:10.836 --> 01:08:16.258
[excavators sound fades off ]

01:08:18.177 --> 01:08:19.178
[Martinez's Dad]:
What you see

01:08:19.428 --> 01:08:21.847
Is a mountain
that protects the island.

01:08:22.723 --> 01:08:25.017
First there was a place
in the East of the island,

01:08:25.309 --> 01:08:27.228
where there was a forest

01:08:27.478 --> 01:08:29.897
that protected the whole island,

01:08:30.689 --> 01:08:32.566
as protection
for the environment.

01:08:32.650 --> 01:08:34.318
The Government
destroyed it

01:08:34.652 --> 01:08:36.987
to build the
International Airport.

01:08:37.446 --> 01:08:41.158
Now there are 20 people
who live from it.

01:08:41.617 --> 01:08:43.953
The first time,
they were stopped.

01:08:44.078 --> 01:08:45.037
The second one too.

01:08:45.079 --> 01:08:46.622
Now they have used force.

01:08:46.789 --> 01:08:48.457
They have destroyed it
without warning them.

01:08:48.791 --> 01:08:50.417
[Car door slams]

01:08:50.626 --> 01:08:53.170
[Undistinguish chatting

01:09:00.678 --> 01:09:03.139
[MD]: The mountain is a
barrier for cyclones.

01:09:03.264 --> 01:09:04.849
[Martinez off]:
Things here,

01:09:04.932 --> 01:09:07.643
do not work as
in the rest of the country.

01:09:08.644 --> 01:09:10.813
The mountain is our strength.

01:09:11.397 --> 01:09:12.773
Today, the company Estrella

01:09:12.815 --> 01:09:14.108
and the Haitian State,

01:09:14.150 --> 01:09:15.442
they have decided
to eliminate it,

01:09:15.484 --> 01:09:18.404
following the May 10th decree
that expropriated our land.

01:09:18.529 --> 01:09:19.655
At our refusal,

01:09:19.738 --> 01:09:21.657
they have decided
to carve out 4 mountains.

01:09:21.824 --> 01:09:23.492
First, this one of Gro-Mon;

01:09:23.659 --> 01:09:25.119
Next
a mountain in Kaykok,

01:09:25.286 --> 01:09:27.955
to extract material
which is worth US$ millions.

01:09:28.122 --> 01:09:29.748
to make the road.

01:09:29.999 --> 01:09:31.125
They are going to destroy it,

01:09:31.208 --> 01:09:33.919
to take the material
necessary for the airport.

01:09:34.170 --> 01:09:36.213
to make the road,

01:09:36.422 --> 01:09:38.799
without informing
the population,

01:09:38.966 --> 01:09:40.217
without giving them a coin,

01:09:40.384 --> 01:09:43.846
Almost 10 families
make a living from it.

01:09:44.180 --> 01:09:46.098
They have entered by force.

01:09:46.348 --> 01:09:48.392
[Paisant]:
They entered in March 2014.

01:09:48.517 --> 01:09:50.769
and they started destroying,
the lands too.

01:09:50.853 --> 01:09:52.563
They cut the coconut trees.

01:09:52.688 --> 01:09:54.398
Whenever they entered
we've stopped them,

01:09:54.440 --> 01:09:56.025
but they've come back

01:09:56.108 --> 01:09:57.234
with weapons
in their hands,

01:09:57.276 --> 01:09:59.236
to intimidate us.

01:09:59.528 --> 01:10:02.239
On the slopes
there are houses.

01:10:02.364 --> 01:10:05.034
They have removed
a lot of land,

01:10:05.576 --> 01:10:08.037
if it rains
they will disappear.

01:10:08.287 --> 01:10:10.039
[M]: Go and stand there!

01:10:10.289 --> 01:10:11.624
In the middle of the road!

01:10:11.749 --> 01:10:13.167
Get in the middle!.

01:10:16.837 --> 01:10:19.256
[Voice on phone]:
Did they enter with tractors?

01:10:19.548 --> 01:10:21.508
[M]: Yes, with tractors ...

01:10:22.009 --> 01:10:25.846
and trucks,
they are destroying it.

01:10:26.639 --> 01:10:29.558
There are two police trucks,

01:10:29.934 --> 01:10:31.352
one is gone and

01:10:31.852 --> 01:10:34.688
the chief of police
comes and goes.

01:10:39.944 --> 01:10:41.737
[M]: Call me later.

01:10:41.946 --> 01:10:43.405
Where is Osly?

01:10:43.447 --> 01:10:46.158
Only him.
Move aside.

01:10:48.452 --> 01:10:49.995
[M]: Translate for me.

01:10:50.079 --> 01:10:51.413
Would he agree

01:10:51.455 --> 01:10:54.124
to be paid, after his things
had been destroyed?

01:10:54.291 --> 01:10:56.168
[Osly]: He tells you,
If you have a house

01:10:56.252 --> 01:10:57.253
[Translating to spanish]

01:10:57.586 --> 01:10:59.463
if a people comes.

01:11:00.047 --> 01:11:02.758
you leave people
destroy your house first.

01:11:02.758 --> 01:11:03.759
if not so, not pay.

01:11:03.926 --> 01:11:05.844
[Chief]: But tell him
there is no house there.

01:11:05.928 --> 01:11:07.346
It is just land.

01:11:08.097 --> 01:11:11.517
[O]: He says: it's not a house,
it's just land.

01:11:12.643 --> 01:11:14.603
[Chief]:  I understand
his point of view,

01:11:14.853 --> 01:11:16.397
but here it doesn't apply.

01:11:16.438 --> 01:11:20.234
[M]: You have to compensate
before doing the work.

01:11:20.442 --> 01:11:22.987
We are Haitians,
we follow Haitian law.

01:11:23.028 --> 01:11:25.239
He is Dominican.
They act differently.

01:11:25.322 --> 01:11:27.449
We ask them to stop.

01:11:27.658 --> 01:11:30.619
The most important thing is
the people living here.

01:11:30.703 --> 01:11:32.830
You cannot destroy the mountain,

01:11:33.038 --> 01:11:36.208
you cannot sell us
to pick up material.

01:11:36.417 --> 01:11:39.378
The Ministry of Tourism,
has to come to explain

01:11:39.712 --> 01:11:42.673
what security plan
does he have for these people?

01:11:42.715 --> 01:11:43.882
Translate!.

01:11:44.133 --> 01:11:47.636
[O]: He say you, Us what about?
[Translation not comprehensible]

01:11:47.803 --> 01:11:49.138
[Chief]:
What?

01:11:49.388 --> 01:11:51.974
[O]: He tells you:
What about us?.

01:11:52.433 --> 01:11:53.726
I said.

01:11:53.892 --> 01:11:55.644
If the hill
It's destroyed.

01:11:55.728 --> 01:11:58.814
People
live without problem.

01:11:59.273 --> 01:12:01.734
He wants talk to tourism.

01:12:01.817 --> 01:12:04.320
What doing
with people out there?.

01:12:04.486 --> 01:12:07.698
[C]: The hill is going to stay,
with less material,

01:12:08.115 --> 01:12:10.284
but with the same height.

01:12:10.784 --> 01:12:13.412
We are not going
to make it disappear.

01:12:13.537 --> 01:12:14.955
There is a plan
responsable,

01:12:15.039 --> 01:12:16.040
technical,

01:12:16.123 --> 01:12:17.249
for that hill.

01:12:17.374 --> 01:12:19.918
We will talk to
the company to see.

01:12:20.085 --> 01:12:22.713
[O]: He says
It's a technical plan.

01:12:22.838 --> 01:12:25.174
[C]: Tell him
everyone was paid.

01:12:26.050 --> 01:12:27.926
The same as we did there

01:12:28.052 --> 01:12:30.179
it's what we're going
to do here.

01:12:30.929 --> 01:12:34.350
[O]: What they did
In the other side,

01:12:34.725 --> 01:12:36.477
they will do it here.

01:12:36.518 --> 01:12:40.022
[M]: Remind him
that as he knows

01:12:40.314 --> 01:12:43.359
you have to pay first
in order to work.

01:12:43.484 --> 01:12:46.904
[O] He says,
you know well, you pay first.

01:12:48.072 --> 01:12:49.239
[C]: Not really.

01:12:49.782 --> 01:12:52.034
If they want it that way,

01:12:52.409 --> 01:12:56.413
given that
they ask to be pay first.

01:12:56.789 --> 01:12:58.665
Let's see what
agreement we can make

01:12:58.749 --> 01:13:00.292
as to move out of here?

01:13:00.459 --> 01:13:02.294
so we can
continue working

01:13:02.419 --> 01:13:03.712
and they will get paid,

01:13:03.796 --> 01:13:05.923
as we did
on the other side.

01:13:06.548 --> 01:13:10.010
[Sudden quiet ambience]

01:13:20.270 --> 01:13:22.106
[Birds singing]

01:13:54.555 --> 01:13:57.808
[Mortar spreading sounds]

01:14:00.018 --> 01:14:02.104
[Kènold]: Special Forces
entered the island,

01:14:02.146 --> 01:14:03.689
they mistreated
many people.

01:14:03.772 --> 01:14:05.232
We built Barricades,

01:14:05.399 --> 01:14:06.775
we cut off roads.

01:14:06.817 --> 01:14:08.819
That's why
they mistreated many people.

01:14:09.153 --> 01:14:11.363
They did not find me

01:14:11.447 --> 01:14:12.656
but they entered my house,

01:14:12.739 --> 01:14:13.657
they registered it,

01:14:13.782 --> 01:14:16.034
and they subtracted
a money that I had

01:14:16.160 --> 01:14:18.537
to pay
the school of my children.

01:14:18.912 --> 01:14:20.664
They took it
without telling me anything.

01:14:21.623 --> 01:14:24.084
- What are you doing
with that soil?

01:14:24.668 --> 01:14:27.045
- It's to plant mango trees.

01:14:27.421 --> 01:14:29.715
[Gentile piano music]

01:14:29.715 --> 01:14:31.008
We put it inside,

01:14:31.133 --> 01:14:33.343
it will grow
and we'll eat lots.

01:14:33.469 --> 01:14:34.428
- 200 years ago

01:14:34.553 --> 01:14:36.138
that we live on this land.

01:14:36.138 --> 01:14:38.474
Our grandparents
and great grandparents

01:14:38.682 --> 01:14:41.059
they left it to us.
This island had nothing.

01:14:41.268 --> 01:14:43.228
We built it,
we planted the mango trees.

01:14:43.479 --> 01:14:46.190
If the island is this beautiful
it's thanks to it's habitants.

01:14:46.356 --> 01:14:48.442
They harvest it and
give that beauty to it.

01:14:48.609 --> 01:14:50.152
If there is
a project to be done,

01:14:50.319 --> 01:14:52.196
that project,
must be done

01:14:52.279 --> 01:14:55.365
for and with
the people of Île-à-Vache.

01:15:15.802 --> 01:15:18.096
[Piano music fades out]

01:15:19.097 --> 01:15:21.350
[Gilbert]:
What I believe is that

01:15:21.808 --> 01:15:25.187
if they come and buy
a piece of land from our family,

01:15:25.479 --> 01:15:27.189
or whoever else

01:15:27.898 --> 01:15:33.862
and the State certifies
that the land is yours,

01:15:34.738 --> 01:15:38.158
the government cannot
take away that land,

01:15:38.408 --> 01:15:41.828
because everyone has
right to buy.

01:15:42.412 --> 01:15:47.459
I do not think the State
can take it off later,

01:15:47.876 --> 01:15:51.463
that would not be normal,
not good.

01:15:53.549 --> 01:15:55.133
[Jerome]:In the matter
of the cadastre ...

01:15:55.467 --> 01:15:58.053
everybody knows
it's a document

01:15:58.178 --> 01:16:01.598
that indicates all
the people who

01:16:02.766 --> 01:16:04.560
has a property,

01:16:04.685 --> 01:16:06.353
they occupy a land,

01:16:06.478 --> 01:16:07.854
how big it is,

01:16:07.938 --> 01:16:09.773
name, signature ...

01:16:10.399 --> 01:16:12.568
since when
they occupy that land.

01:16:13.277 --> 01:16:14.736
So the Government

01:16:14.820 --> 01:16:17.739
took the cadastre,
to Puerto Principe,

01:16:17.823 --> 01:16:20.117
and for what they say,

01:16:20.659 --> 01:16:22.619
they have made
a new cadastre

01:16:22.744 --> 01:16:24.413
and this cadastre
they have done

01:16:24.580 --> 01:16:25.789
they have modified it,

01:16:25.914 --> 01:16:27.749
and lots of people
that had lands,

01:16:27.916 --> 01:16:29.626
since the year ...

01:16:30.502 --> 01:16:34.089
for years ...
Sixties, forties,

01:16:34.965 --> 01:16:35.966
fifties

01:16:36.174 --> 01:16:38.468
that those people
have no longer the land.

01:16:38.677 --> 01:16:40.304
They have falsified
their names...

01:16:40.429 --> 01:16:41.847
[Andy]:
It is clear,

01:16:42.264 --> 01:16:43.974
they cannot
buy the land.

01:16:44.099 --> 01:16:45.517
The State can offer

01:16:45.642 --> 01:16:46.977
a concession,

01:16:47.102 --> 01:16:48.103
because

01:16:48.437 --> 01:16:49.855
Haitian law prohibits

01:16:50.022 --> 01:16:52.816
the sale of land
to foreigners.

01:16:52.983 --> 01:16:54.776
But we can
grant a concession,

01:16:54.818 --> 01:16:56.486
as we have done

01:16:56.862 --> 01:16:58.655
with "L'Abadie",

01:16:58.739 --> 01:16:59.823
in the North,

01:17:00.032 --> 01:17:01.908
where we have
the Caribbean Cruiser

01:17:01.992 --> 01:17:02.868
which brings

01:17:03.452 --> 01:17:05.162
approximately
600,000 tourists

01:17:05.412 --> 01:17:09.374
600,000 cruise passengers
per year in "L'Abadie".

01:17:11.835 --> 01:17:13.962
It's the same system.

01:17:14.087 --> 01:17:15.964
We have a
concession agreement

01:17:16.089 --> 01:17:17.883
with agencies, for
a period of time,

01:17:18.258 --> 01:17:19.926
allowing them
to exploit it,

01:17:20.552 --> 01:17:23.639
but we can not
sell it definitely.

01:17:23.972 --> 01:17:26.099
It Is prohibited
by Haitian law.

01:17:28.185 --> 01:17:29.728
[Ysmàel]:
In the decree,

01:17:29.978 --> 01:17:32.272
Annex 4 says:

01:17:33.148 --> 01:17:34.650
Government

01:17:34.858 --> 01:17:36.360
must make the land

01:17:36.652 --> 01:17:39.738
available to investors,

01:17:40.113 --> 01:17:42.032
to foreigners.

01:17:43.116 --> 01:17:45.535
Annex 10 says:

01:17:47.454 --> 01:17:49.414
Martelly-Lamothe government

01:17:49.998 --> 01:17:52.042
offers Île-à-Vache
for 50 years.

01:17:53.377 --> 01:17:55.379
Annex 4
also says:

01:17:55.796 --> 01:17:59.049
Maximum time,
provisionally,

01:18:00.425 --> 01:18:02.803
that we can stay,
it's six months.

01:18:03.637 --> 01:18:07.349
[A]: All properties
belong to the State.

01:18:08.475 --> 01:18:09.559
Nevertheless,

01:18:10.936 --> 01:18:13.563
Some people say:
- With President F. Duvalier

01:18:13.814 --> 01:18:16.024
we have been given the lands ...

01:18:17.275 --> 01:18:18.568
I believe

01:18:19.319 --> 01:18:21.488
that everything is renegotiable.

01:18:21.613 --> 01:18:23.323
What do you want?

01:18:23.824 --> 01:18:26.952
Do you want to continue
wandering in this misery?

01:18:28.245 --> 01:18:30.872
Keep spitting on gold?

01:18:31.039 --> 01:18:33.166
You have gold,
in your houses.

01:18:33.792 --> 01:18:36.628
And you want us
not to use it? No.

01:18:38.672 --> 01:18:43.260
[Distorted music built-up]

01:18:58.775 --> 01:19:03.155
[Music fades out]

01:19:04.573 --> 01:19:08.410
[A]: We have to
keep negotiating.

01:19:08.869 --> 01:19:11.580
It's what I call:
Social negotiation.

01:19:11.913 --> 01:19:13.373
We have to
keep talking with the people,

01:19:13.457 --> 01:19:14.750
explain to them,

01:19:14.750 --> 01:19:16.543
imagine with them

01:19:17.377 --> 01:19:20.213
a better way of life.

01:19:22.549 --> 01:19:24.593
It can be a challenge

01:19:24.926 --> 01:19:26.553
huge and constant.

01:19:27.262 --> 01:19:29.556
But they have right
to a better live.

01:19:29.723 --> 01:19:31.057
They told us,

01:19:31.099 --> 01:19:32.726
when we arrived,

01:19:33.143 --> 01:19:36.062
- You have always forgotten
about Île-à-Vache.

01:19:36.438 --> 01:19:40.108
as if Île-à-Vache did not exist
on the map of Haiti.

01:19:41.276 --> 01:19:43.028
So, now I think

01:19:43.403 --> 01:19:46.239
we have to work together.

01:19:46.656 --> 01:19:48.158
We must go

01:19:49.576 --> 01:19:51.828
hand-in-hand

01:19:52.037 --> 01:19:54.498
so this project
becomes a reality.

01:19:55.165 --> 01:19:57.125
It is true that you have land,

01:19:57.417 --> 01:19:59.169
but it is also true

01:19:59.628 --> 01:20:01.838
that there is
some social negotiation

01:20:02.339 --> 01:20:05.884
that can force you to move
from a point A to a point B

01:20:06.009 --> 01:20:10.597
but with better
life conditions.

01:20:11.723 --> 01:20:14.810
I know,
it is a risk

01:20:15.018 --> 01:20:16.394
to make that sacrifice,

01:20:16.728 --> 01:20:18.814
if I can call it sacrifice.

01:20:19.397 --> 01:20:20.649
[Martinez]:
The Government of Haiti

01:20:20.774 --> 01:20:22.943
wants to put
Île-à-Vache on sale.

01:20:23.235 --> 01:20:25.529
Its not for sale,
nor wholesale nor retail.

01:20:25.695 --> 01:20:27.113
Legitimately and legally

01:20:27.239 --> 01:20:29.199
according to
Haitian constitution.

01:20:30.158 --> 01:20:32.118
The constitution says,
in the preamble,

01:20:32.244 --> 01:20:35.789
that is built based on
the act of independence.

01:20:36.414 --> 01:20:38.208
This piece
of Haiti,

01:20:38.458 --> 01:20:39.626
this land,

01:20:39.709 --> 01:20:42.504
that have we occupied,
those of us coming from Africa,

01:20:42.629 --> 01:20:44.422
after they've killed
all its inhabitants.

01:20:44.548 --> 01:20:46.508
In 1492,
when Columbus arrived

01:20:46.508 --> 01:20:48.969
they killed
everybody with red skin,

01:20:49.052 --> 01:20:51.012
the so-called Indians.

01:20:51.763 --> 01:20:52.472
They killed them.

01:20:52.514 --> 01:20:53.932
Then we,
that came from Africa,

01:20:54.057 --> 01:20:55.100
we arrived,

01:20:55.225 --> 01:20:58.144
later became independent,
two centuries later.

01:20:59.479 --> 01:21:00.772
What it says?

01:21:01.523 --> 01:21:03.483
Dessalines,
father of this nation,

01:21:03.775 --> 01:21:04.818
says:

01:21:04.943 --> 01:21:08.196
This land
it is not to sell to foreigners

01:21:09.072 --> 01:21:09.739
okay?

01:21:09.823 --> 01:21:11.199
To remember
what Dessalines says

01:21:11.366 --> 01:21:12.492
We say:
This land,

01:21:12.617 --> 01:21:14.286
Île-à-Vache,
it's part of Haiti,

01:21:14.369 --> 01:21:15.662
land of Dessalines,

01:21:15.829 --> 01:21:16.913
It's not for sale.

01:21:17.038 --> 01:21:17.914
Okay?

01:21:18.248 --> 01:21:19.958
What does it say
the constitution of Haiti?

01:21:21.668 --> 01:21:23.086
This land,

01:21:23.128 --> 01:21:25.672
No land of Haiti
will be sold to foreigners.

01:21:25.839 --> 01:21:26.965
Absolutely.

01:21:28.425 --> 01:21:30.719
A foreigner who
buys a land in Haiti,

01:21:31.636 --> 01:21:34.139
in 1940, for 50 Gourds,

01:21:34.556 --> 01:21:36.016
he sells it in 2014.

01:21:36.099 --> 01:21:39.269
He has to sell it for 50 HTG,
Because he can not speculate.

01:21:40.020 --> 01:21:42.272
To repeat
what Dessalines says,

01:21:42.439 --> 01:21:44.482
We see that
they want to sell it.

01:21:44.566 --> 01:21:48.236
It's not for sale,
neither wholesale nor retail.

01:21:50.071 --> 01:21:59.289
[Peaceful countryside ambience]

01:22:45.251 --> 01:22:52.801
[Helicopter approaching]

01:23:06.648 --> 01:23:08.608
[J]: Martinez had to
leave the country.

01:23:08.817 --> 01:23:11.152
because they harassed him

01:23:11.569 --> 01:23:13.238
with anonymous calls

01:23:13.488 --> 01:23:16.074
that threatened him,

01:23:16.366 --> 01:23:19.077
and had to leave.

01:23:19.369 --> 01:23:22.038
I took the position of
president of KOPI.

01:23:22.163 --> 01:23:25.875
Two years ago
that I direct the collective.

01:23:27.669 --> 01:23:30.714
President Jovenel
he has come several times,

01:23:30.797 --> 01:23:33.758
but never
they have heard or called us.

01:23:34.259 --> 01:23:37.095
We keep asking

01:23:37.554 --> 01:23:41.057
to the president
Jovenel Moïse

01:23:41.683 --> 01:23:43.977
to remove
the Decree of May 10

01:23:44.185 --> 01:23:46.062
about Île-à-Vache,

01:23:46.146 --> 01:23:48.398
the one that
expropriates the islanders,

01:23:48.606 --> 01:23:49.899
with all their goods;

01:23:50.066 --> 01:23:52.444
as with the islands of
La Tortuga and La Gonave,

01:23:52.569 --> 01:23:54.487
that are also
affected by the Decree.

01:23:54.529 --> 01:23:56.906
They've declared them
of public utility,

01:23:57.032 --> 01:23:59.117
without explaining
what they'll do with them.

01:23:59.242 --> 01:24:01.244
They say that
they will make a project,

01:24:01.369 --> 01:24:03.079
but they are private projects.

01:24:03.079 --> 01:24:06.875
You can not declare
an area of public utility

01:24:06.958 --> 01:24:09.502
to carry out activities
of private character.

01:24:09.586 --> 01:24:13.089
Thus
we keep fighting until today.

01:24:14.507 --> 01:24:18.011
[Peaceful sweeping]

01:24:26.144 --> 01:24:32.484
[Wind gusting against]

01:24:34.319 --> 01:24:36.654
[Mesura]:
The "regime"who was in power,

01:24:36.738 --> 01:24:38.114
let's call it that way,

01:24:38.198 --> 01:24:40.658
has destroyed Haitians,
the people.

01:24:41.117 --> 01:24:44.704
If you have something
you need to survive,

01:24:45.080 --> 01:24:46.706
your source of living,

01:24:47.582 --> 01:24:49.292
and they come
to destroy it..

01:24:49.459 --> 01:24:51.377
They do not
shoot you with a gun,

01:24:51.503 --> 01:24:53.505
but if
they destroy your resources

01:24:53.588 --> 01:24:56.424
they are finally killing you.

01:24:56.758 --> 01:25:01.346
As this happened with
President Joseph Martelly,

01:25:02.055 --> 01:25:05.100
they destroyed
all I had,

01:25:05.558 --> 01:25:08.019
now that is
President Jovenel,

01:25:08.812 --> 01:25:10.313
he is the only one

01:25:11.189 --> 01:25:15.777
that can say something
about what happened...

01:25:16.069 --> 01:25:17.487
I wait for him here,

01:25:17.695 --> 01:25:19.948
to present my complaints.

01:25:20.657 --> 01:25:31.626
[Melacholic xylophone tune]

01:25:42.512 --> 01:25:44.973
[Andy]: We want
the project to keep growing,

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but for doing so
it needs to be inside

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not only, of
the government's agenda.

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Because governments
stays temporarily.

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In a national agenda.

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The Ministry of Tourism
will write a public document

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that will trace the actions
for the next 20 years.

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A guide
for the next 20 years

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will make of Haiti
a tourist destination,

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competitive,
in the Caribbean.

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We would like to see
that these projects

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come to an end.

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That all this money invested,

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that all these efforts

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serve for something.

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[Melody fades to h elicopter]

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I'm talking about Île-à-Vache

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we know that
It has great potential.

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but when there is a project ..

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There is no project
without challenges.

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We are here

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to make it happen..

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Île-à-Vache
It's a jewel, a diamond.

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A diamond to be polished.

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The diamond does not shine yet.

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You have to remove

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what prevents it from shining.

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[Motorcycle crossing]