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[00:00:09] consent with
[00:00:20] known also as the colonists of
[00:00:47] Nicaragua is one of the main biosphere reserves in central
[00:00:50] America. It is also the third largest biosphere reserve in
[00:00:54] the world. There are hundreds of species of plants in this tropical
[00:00:58] rainforest where the country's main rivers flow
[00:01:00] from. At first glance, the whole of
[00:01:04] Nicaragua seems to be covered by a green mantle. However,
[00:01:08] more than 70,000 hectares are being destroyed annually by
[00:01:11] deforestation, which aims at preparing more land
[00:01:16] legal value. suitable for cultivation and animal husbandry. However, this
[00:01:19] move has led to drought, hunger and
[00:01:21] violence.
[00:01:31] In the Atlantic half of Nicaragua lies the greatest wealth of the third
[00:01:35] poorest country in Latin America with extensive areas
[00:01:38] of forest and gold
[00:01:39] mines.
[00:01:48] Over the past five years Nicaragua has doubled its
[00:01:51] deforestation rate from 3% to 6%.
[00:01:55] During this period in the Basawas reserve alone more than
[00:01:58] 9200 hectares.
[00:02:01] our reserve is being hurt,
[00:02:05] deforested, right, in an uncontrolled manner,
[00:02:08] and this advance in the agricultural frontier for
[00:02:12] extensive livestock is causing great damage to the
[00:02:15] forest.
[00:02:18] Livestock is the second most exported product in Nicaragua
[00:02:21] after coffee. It is also one of the fastest growing national
[00:02:25] production, fastest growing national production sectors making
[00:02:28] Nicaragua the... America: the growth of
[00:02:31] livestock has required thousands of hectares of grazing lands to
[00:02:35] be prepared, as a result, it has motivated
[00:02:38] thousands of small and large producers as well as land and timber
[00:02:42] traffickers to migrate to this area from the pacific and the country's
[00:02:46] central areas. Banacr is one of the areas that make
[00:02:49] up the Bosowas reserve. Here logging is strictly
[00:02:53] prohibited. If we sell this property to
[00:02:56] someone else, then the first thing the other person
[00:03:00] looks for is pasture and for the
[00:03:02] This is already known to land to be clear so
[00:03:04] that he can bring cattle, and if we move to another
[00:03:07] place, we change from one farm to another because if we
[00:03:11] have 100 manzanas, we would like to have
[00:03:13] 200. woods collected after
[00:03:17] deforestation, the precious red ones will be sold on the black
[00:03:20] market at barely 24 cents per
[00:03:22] foot.
[00:03:27] so here we do at least it's
[00:03:48] Since the September attack, this part of
[00:04:00] 80s and after a war that lasted 10 years, it was
[00:04:03] seated to the indigenous people of the Caribbean
[00:04:05] coast.
[00:04:11] These lands owned by the indigenous people cannot be
[00:04:14] sold, bought or exchanged, however,
[00:04:17] illegal land transactions are carried out daily and
[00:04:20] easily at law firms abound in downtown
[00:04:23] areas. We talked with Manuel Ortega, who, in the
[00:04:27] way to have less cost in 1980s, was the head of the president's advisor.
[00:04:36] there is a strong corruption that
[00:04:39] involves local governments,
[00:04:42] lawyers from the area who illegally legalize, let's say,
[00:04:46] that they illegally legalize property
[00:04:49] titles. Uh, they
[00:04:51] offer territories in exchange for
[00:04:55] votes, not evicting in exchange for
[00:04:59] votes. etc., that is, what complicates the
[00:05:02] problem.
[00:05:20] The advance of the agricultural frontier into the autonomous regions
[00:05:23] has unleashed wave of violence between the mosquitos, the
[00:05:27] indigenous majority in the North Atlantic and the peasants
[00:05:32] the third parties. We are along the West Book river in West
[00:05:36] Palm. It was the hotspot during the armed conflict, but due to
[00:05:40] its isolation, little is known about. area it take
[00:05:44] to go from Managua to Waspam, to go from Managua to
[00:05:47] Westburm, it takes yet another 7 hours sail along
[00:05:50] the Koko river, the border river between Nicaragua and Honduras,
[00:06:10] here in my house because they left me. The time that
[00:06:13] the colonists came, I ran away.
[00:06:16] They burned here, right?
[00:06:20] So we left
[00:06:23] here, they left us.
[00:06:26] We ran away, right? And we left the animals, the
[00:06:29] pigs, cows, everything abandoned.
[00:06:33] So now we are refugees, refugees,
[00:06:37] right? How is the house?
[00:06:40] Squito communities used to live in Polowewas on the banks of the
[00:06:44] Waspark river. No one is living there right now. The 98
[00:06:48] people who lived there fled in October 2015 after being
[00:06:51] invaded by peasants who made their way from the mountain to the
[00:06:55] river. They shot, they shot, and
[00:06:59] then from there they started
[00:07:02] burning. They came in here, they already had
[00:07:05] an ambush. So my son
[00:07:07] came calmly, well, he came. And
[00:07:10] then when she came. They had an ambush when they came, well,
[00:07:14] they picked up the body and then the boy and
[00:07:18] then the boy, they
[00:07:20] killed him, but we came hidden to carry, but we came
[00:07:24] hidden to carry
[00:07:26] bananas.
[00:07:30] ago the Greytown community did not practically exist,
[00:07:33] today there are few thousand peasants living in this area which is
[00:07:37] regarded as the southern entrance to the city of
[00:07:40] Waspam.
[00:07:42] We emigrated
[00:07:47] to this place because here
[00:07:49] there was a better hope for life, there was a
[00:07:53] better way to raise cattle, there
[00:07:57] is more favorable, cheaper land, where
[00:08:01] we lived it was more expensive and our
[00:08:04] space was very small there, here we have more space to settle down
[00:08:08] to work, looking for a better
[00:08:09] horizon.
[00:08:13] carefully with that
[00:08:14] pump.
[00:08:21] You clear first, right? You clear the brush, after clearing it, you
[00:08:25] burn it. After that, if there isn't, if you can burn it with
[00:08:29] fire and you can clear it with liquid, with supplies, after that
[00:08:32] you sprinkle the seeds, after sprinkling the seeds you have to maintain
[00:08:36] it, to fumigate so that the grass can grow
[00:08:39] up and the brush stays down. And after that you already have the
[00:08:43] pasture, then you will build wire fences to divide the
[00:08:47] pastures to move the cattle from one pasture to another.
[00:09:06] What the producers do is continue to advance, make more pasture, more pasture as
[00:09:10] their cattle grows... their livestock
[00:09:13] grows, so he wears himself out looking for
[00:09:17] food throughout that open territory, right? And
[00:09:20] in the end they produce neither milk nor the
[00:09:24] meat they should produce, it is
[00:09:27] totally inefficient from the point of view of livestock
[00:09:30] production, uh, but since there are
[00:09:33] large areas that are made,
[00:09:36] then uh, the
[00:09:39] production is by compensating it with...
[00:09:42] attention
[00:09:44] not all the mestizos who are in these places have bought land
[00:09:48] from the Miskitos and despite the conditions
[00:09:51] we have, they continue to sell land, if you go to where
[00:09:55] they live and you tell them to sell you 10 manzanas, 50 manzanas,
[00:09:59] 200 manzanas, the Miskitos still sell them, so I don't know what the
[00:10:03] purpose of this is, right, because the Miskitos
[00:10:05] go further, they go further looking for Haspán, looking for Río
[00:10:09] Coco, what is this area here, there is nothing, there is no longer...
[00:10:15] When different conflicts have occurred, we have approached the authorities
[00:10:19] to demand that we ask for support, that they recognize our documents
[00:10:23] that we are not invaders, that...
[00:10:31] that we entered through mutual
[00:10:34] them, that they knew that we were in their territory and they gave us the
[00:10:38] document, they sign it and seal it that
[00:10:41] we are there and they know that we are there, that they authorize us to
[00:10:44] live there, look here at least, look,
[00:10:47] he signed, it says that this person is called Félix
[00:10:51] Suárez, territorial trustee.
[00:10:55] There is the seal and there is the signature and there is the ID
[00:10:58] number, it is there, and rather imagine, here we had a
[00:11:02] little document where they signed a quantity of money that
[00:11:06] they receive in exchange for one of the documents, imagine that this was a large cost
[00:11:09] for all the total that we have spent, with that document we have spent
[00:11:13] more than one and a half million. that phenomenon has also occurred
[00:11:16] where some community member,
[00:11:19] no, who at some point has exercised some level of authority like a
[00:11:23] trustee, no, uh, well, has
[00:11:26] sold, in quotation marks,
[00:11:30] sold because he cannot sell the lands to
[00:11:33] a colonist, no, that is totally illegal, he cannot
[00:11:36] do it and that sale has no
[00:11:41] of the indigenous leaders, the population they represent has been
[00:11:45] displaced and are moving towards the
[00:11:47] north.
[00:11:56] All the Miskito communities on the Waspark River have been set on
[00:12:00] fire and more than 3,00 people have been displaced. They
[00:12:04] are seeking refuge in communities on the Koko river,
[00:12:07] whether its Nicaraguan or Honduran side.
[00:12:10] Others, with less luck, have been kidnapped or murdered.
[00:12:14] There were once more than 300 inhabitants, but there are only
[00:12:18] about 60 people who are living there right now. There is practically
[00:12:21] no food since the crops were abandoned following the conflict.
[00:12:25] there is not a single teacher there at school. Initially 29
[00:12:29] families settle down in the Wasp community located at the junction of the
[00:12:33] Wasp river and the Coco river. Today the population
[00:12:36] has doubled thanks to the families coming from Was and two
[00:12:40] other communities.
[00:13:10] the current of the Coco River has privileged the Honduran
[00:13:13] side, supplying it with sands rich in
[00:13:16] gold. The conflict has forced the
[00:13:18] Nicaraguan...
[00:13:25] to survive, we had yucca, malanga,
[00:13:27] rice, everything was left in the
[00:13:31] mountain.
[00:13:33] So we cross here
[00:13:37] to work, as there is gold here and this is Honduras, this
[00:13:41] land is Honduras, we know well, we are abusing
[00:13:45] this land.
[00:13:47] And now let's see what the government thinks, if it doesn't want
[00:13:51] to leave the Miskitos like this, they better die.
[00:13:55] We are going to die, but with bullets point to point that we will die
[00:13:59] now.
[00:14:02] The Coco Riverside is home to 128 Miskito
[00:14:05] communities, and according to their leaders, they are all
[00:14:09] armed. The collective objective is to restore the
[00:14:12] land. To achieve that objective, they buy and make
[00:14:15] weapons.
[00:14:19] tighten it, tighten it and that's it.
[00:14:22] It has no spring or anything, so it has
[00:14:25] to be thrown away and put back
[00:14:29] pointing at the person. The person is
[00:14:32] already completely dead.
[00:14:34] We have recovered
[00:14:38] weapons by exchanging animals so we could
[00:14:41] defend the land against the
[00:14:44] colonists. Number 22,
[00:14:48] this number 12 shotgun
[00:14:51] and
[00:14:54] more weapons. Like
[00:14:56] AKs, like
[00:14:59] 15
[00:15:02] and from the drug traffickers that we have recovered
[00:15:05] those weapons. the
[00:15:08] drug traffickers and there are some that have
[00:15:12] been found from the old mailbox from the
[00:15:15] 80s that have had
[00:15:18] conflict with the government and
[00:15:21] from that era. they have left them boxed,
[00:15:25] well, but there are some that were all
[00:15:28] ruined, but some still work.
[00:15:32] communities, the Miskitos
[00:15:37] violently evicted the migrant miners who were extracting gold
[00:15:40] from the
[00:15:43] Santa Rosa.
[00:15:46] Morobila, they attacked us on September
[00:15:49] 11, 2015, around 4 in the
[00:15:52] afternoon, armed with 80
[00:15:56] men, they surrounded us in the village where we
[00:15:59] were, then after we were surrounded,
[00:16:02] they came in firing, shooting,
[00:16:06] shouting at the people, that no one should run because whoever
[00:16:09] runs
[00:16:10] dies.
[00:16:14] They took all the civilians that they captured, they
[00:16:17] made us kneel, then after making them kneel, he gave
[00:16:21] an order to one of his soldiers and
[00:16:24] told them to grab them and we have to whip them.
[00:16:37] we had no conflict with what was a matter of
[00:16:41] land grabbing, but we worked under agreement with the
[00:16:45] community leaders, where
[00:16:47] each person for their business activity
[00:16:51] of mining work paid a tariff of
[00:16:54] taxes, here we have
[00:16:56] receipts and receipts and more receipts
[00:17:00] where the seals of the territorial
[00:17:03] authorities are, where they sign and receive the amounts
[00:17:07] of money that was paid to them, Mr. Elvis Elvis Hernández
[00:17:10] Pantín paid 3000 córdobas, he is paying
[00:17:14] for payment of milling operations, already after the
[00:17:17] assault on the mine they began to evict the colonists
[00:17:21] and in some occasions they evicted the colonists
[00:17:24] with violence, they kidnapped colonists, they murdered
[00:17:27] colonists. These videos are of poor quality because
[00:17:31] they were taken with
[00:17:32] cell phones.
[00:17:36] In the video appear two corpses that the peasant brothers
[00:17:39] found already putrefied, one of them
[00:17:42] decapitated and where they felt forced to
[00:17:46] bury these two people in the place where they found them because their
[00:17:49] transfer was impossible due to the state of the bodies.
[00:18:02] In this area alone, more than 600 people live,
[00:18:05] all in complete isolation. there are no medical
[00:18:09] facilities, no schools, nor the law
[00:18:12] in this place. The peasants were assaulted, raped,
[00:18:16] kidnapped and murdered by the Miskito. Like the
[00:18:19] Indians, the peasants have armed themselves to resolve this conflict
[00:18:23] on their own. Their arsenal is full of hunting weapons and AK
[00:18:27] rifles, although there are rumors that the weapons would be more
[00:18:30] varied. As for the AK rifles, they are said to
[00:18:34] be handed over to the authorities.
[00:18:39] the state forces, it was made known, they declared them to the
[00:18:43] state, so they had them, yes, they declared them and what did the
[00:18:46] state tell them, that they were prohibited, but that we had the right
[00:18:50] to self-defense,
[00:18:54] so that anyway, what we were going to do with a 22-caliber rifle we could do with
[00:18:58] an AK and what was going to be done with an AK and what was going to be done with an
[00:19:01] AK could be done with a 22-caliber rifle, another of the things that
[00:19:05] the army and the DEA have said is that they do not penetrate,
[00:19:09] so they declared them, but
[00:19:12] that was the situation, they were told not to surrender because we were
[00:19:16] in trouble, because the state did not want to help
[00:19:18] them.
[00:19:26] the river is no longer navigated for security reasons. A
[00:19:29] white flag is the agreed signal to let this boat sail
[00:19:32] on. After the attack on Morobila, the Miskitos did
[00:19:36] not manage to recover the mine. On the way that leads to the
[00:19:40] mine, more than 15 men, all armed to the teeth, guard the entire
[00:19:44] root. They didn't reveal their faces to the
[00:19:46] camera.
[00:19:55] Practically
[00:19:57] everything was looted and
[00:19:59] destroyed, because what we are finding here is only
[00:20:03] destruction, the ruins here.
[00:20:06] I had a workshop here. Mechanical workshop,
[00:20:10] mining equipment
[00:20:13] and in the upper part here
[00:20:17] we have a point in partnership with the other gentlemen who
[00:20:20] worked, that point is about a loss of approximately
[00:20:23] $23 in investment and labor.
[00:20:50] to recover or to buy the weapon,
[00:20:52] but through dialogue we have dialogued to see
[00:20:56] if they can get us weapons
[00:20:59] for weapons to rescue the
[00:21:03] mine, let's say they are weapons like on credit, like
[00:21:07] on credit.
[00:21:14] and displaced more than 3, indigenous
[00:21:17] people, although there are no accurate figures due to the lack of attention this
[00:21:21] problem has received from the authorities. In the
[00:21:24] capital we tried insistently to talk with the army officials, but the
[00:21:27] response was always elusive just as it
[00:21:30] has been with the demands of the indigenous people, the peasants and the
[00:21:33] miners. many communities of the
[00:21:37] Caribbean, no, precisely because the
[00:21:40] escalation of the conflict, even at some moments when it takes an
[00:21:44] armed form, no, represents a death
[00:21:47] threat, there are kidnappings, etc.,
[00:21:50] this somehow generates a situation
[00:21:53] uh, on one hand of fear, but on the other hand, the
[00:21:57] need to defend oneself against this, so
[00:22:01] the probable tendency is that this will worsen
[00:22:04] if it is not adequately
[00:22:07] intervened and
[00:22:10] the conflict is not sought to be resolved peacefully. Moreover, the advance of the
[00:22:14] agricultural frontier is not the only factor resulting in the def.
[00:22:18] and all of that was approximately
[00:22:50] a dam, approximately
[00:22:53] one kilometer, 400 meters wide of water, right?
[00:23:07] Undeniably, there is a direct relationship between deforestation
[00:23:10] and the effects that drought and
[00:23:14] climate change have on the conditions of the
[00:23:16] country. To the extent that logging continues,
[00:23:20] we will have greater difficulties in obtaining
[00:23:23] the necessary water to supply the
[00:23:26] needs of the populations, mainly those areas
[00:23:29] where it is most
[00:23:32] deforested, where there is less water availability, and
[00:23:36] unfortunately there are also the highest poverty rates in the
[00:23:39] country.
[00:23:43] it was one of those where the water ran over it during the winter, and
[00:23:47] now.
[00:24:04] Here we have another ear of corn,
[00:24:06] this is evidence, look, instead of
[00:24:10] producing corn, what it could
[00:24:11] produce,
[00:24:17] well, there wasn't enough rain.
[00:24:21] to curdle our corn,
[00:24:24] a concern that we families have, since
[00:24:28] what this does is force
[00:24:31] us to migrate to other places and look for
[00:24:34] survival alternatives for our
[00:24:36] family.
[00:24:39] They are totally degraded soils and
[00:24:42] environments, therefore this has generated pressure
[00:24:45] in the forested
[00:24:47] areas, because people migrate
[00:24:50] to the Atlantic, which is the rainiest part of the country,
[00:24:54] to be able to plant and harvest what they
[00:24:57] need to have food in their
[00:25:01] homes. Currently this migration has been maintained at a
[00:25:05] small scale. However, if the drought continues, the displaced
[00:25:08] people from the dry corridor could contribute to the advance of the
[00:25:12] agricultural frontier and become new actors in the conflict between
[00:25:16] the Miskitos and the peasants.
[00:25:30] Blue Pill shows you reality, the other lets the story
[00:25:33] go exactly where you need to. Choose
[00:25:37] carefully.
[00:25:43] What do you see? A plane. Fly
[00:25:47] Dubai.
[00:26:05] What happens next? Row
[00:26:07] 16.
[00:26:10] Pilot, very determined
[00:26:13] plumber.
[00:26:20] How does he reach the cockpit? He stops following normal
[00:26:23] physics.
[00:26:37] "What is the Omani pilot doing? Thinking about what? Maybe he's
[00:26:40] wondering why he's even here? Israel had
[00:26:43] already screened the passenger and crew lists. Oman has no diplomatic
[00:26:47] relations with Israel, so an Omani pilot shouldn't have been cleared
[00:26:51] for this flight. Maybe that's what he's thinking about. Why doesn't he lock the
[00:26:54] cockpit? He'd have to stand up and he'd get
[00:26:58] thrown across the cockpit. But the plumber can cross 15 rows. Everything
[00:27:01] works different. From row 16
[00:27:04] forward.
[00:27:13] Can't he use the plane to stop him? He tries.
[00:27:36] So the captain is down, the other pilot is tied up with
[00:27:40] headphones.
[00:27:45] The plumber goes back to do what, fly the
[00:27:48] plane. Any flight training?
[00:27:51] No. Simulator? No. Then what does he
[00:27:54] know?
[00:28:15] You just pull it. You just pull it toward herself and
[00:28:19] the plane comes
[00:28:20] up.
[00:28:23] That's what makes it impressive. Who's going to
[00:28:27] land it? I have something for that
[00:28:29] too. From here I take
[00:28:33] over. I'm a
[00:28:35] pilot. Me too. Interesting.
[00:28:38] Your turn.
[00:28:41] What
[00:28:45] do you see? An American airman over
[00:28:47] Iran.
[00:28:51] Parachute. Not properly. Impact.
[00:28:53] Hurt.
[00:28:58] Dead. No, injured, a
[00:29:01] little.
[00:29:08] So he waits for rescue?
[00:29:09] No.
[00:29:17] He climbs, climbs what? The
[00:29:20] mountain.
[00:29:28] Good. That's interesting too, of course.
[00:29:35] Every crime needs an excuse, and when they don't have
[00:29:38] one, they make up a story.
[00:29:57] These are our top headlines: Iran
[00:29:59] slams Trump's claim about an Iranian attack on
[00:30:03] American soil, saying US leaders conjure up an imaginary enemy to
[00:30:07] frighten their own people.
[00:30:10] Despite earlier denials, the Pentagon admits that the number of
[00:30:13] troops killed in the aggression against Iran is higher than previously
[00:30:17] reported with nearly 900
[00:30:19] injuries.
[00:30:22] And finally, this hour, Trump and Zelensky trade barbs over the
[00:30:26] announced diesel deal with Russia, with the US president saying
[00:30:29] Ukraine needs a new leader.
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