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00:00:09consent with
00:00:20known also as the colonists of
00:00:47Nicaragua is one of the main biosphere reserves in central
00:00:50America. It is also the third largest biosphere reserve in
00:00:54the world. There are hundreds of species of plants in this tropical
00:00:58rainforest where the country's main rivers flow
00:01:00from. At first glance, the whole of
00:01:04Nicaragua seems to be covered by a green mantle. However,
00:01:08more than 70,000 hectares are being destroyed annually by
00:01:11deforestation, which aims at preparing more land
00:01:16legal value. suitable for cultivation and animal husbandry. However, this
00:01:19move has led to drought, hunger and
00:01:21violence.
00:01:31In the Atlantic half of Nicaragua lies the greatest wealth of the third
00:01:35poorest country in Latin America with extensive areas
00:01:38of forest and gold
00:01:39mines.
00:01:48Over the past five years Nicaragua has doubled its
00:01:51deforestation rate from 3% to 6%.
00:01:55During this period in the Basawas reserve alone more than
00:01:589200 hectares.
00:02:01our reserve is being hurt,
00:02:05deforested, right, in an uncontrolled manner,
00:02:08and this advance in the agricultural frontier for
00:02:12extensive livestock is causing great damage to the
00:02:15forest.
00:02:18Livestock is the second most exported product in Nicaragua
00:02:21after coffee. It is also one of the fastest growing national
00:02:25production, fastest growing national production sectors making
00:02:28Nicaragua the... America: the growth of
00:02:31livestock has required thousands of hectares of grazing lands to
00:02:35be prepared, as a result, it has motivated
00:02:38thousands of small and large producers as well as land and timber
00:02:42traffickers to migrate to this area from the pacific and the country's
00:02:46central areas. Banacr is one of the areas that make
00:02:49up the Bosowas reserve. Here logging is strictly
00:02:53prohibited. If we sell this property to
00:02:56someone else, then the first thing the other person
00:03:00looks for is pasture and for the
00:03:02This is already known to land to be clear so
00:03:04that he can bring cattle, and if we move to another
00:03:07place, we change from one farm to another because if we
00:03:11have 100 manzanas, we would like to have
00:03:13200. woods collected after
00:03:17deforestation, the precious red ones will be sold on the black
00:03:20market at barely 24 cents per
00:03:22foot.
00:03:27so here we do at least it's
00:03:48Since the September attack, this part of
00:04:0080s and after a war that lasted 10 years, it was
00:04:03seated to the indigenous people of the Caribbean
00:04:05coast.
00:04:11These lands owned by the indigenous people cannot be
00:04:14sold, bought or exchanged, however,
00:04:17illegal land transactions are carried out daily and
00:04:20easily at law firms abound in downtown
00:04:23areas. We talked with Manuel Ortega, who, in the
00:04:27way to have less cost in 1980s, was the head of the president's advisor.
00:04:36there is a strong corruption that
00:04:39involves local governments,
00:04:42lawyers from the area who illegally legalize, let's say,
00:04:46that they illegally legalize property
00:04:49titles. Uh, they
00:04:51offer territories in exchange for
00:04:55votes, not evicting in exchange for
00:04:59votes. etc., that is, what complicates the
00:05:02problem.
00:05:20The advance of the agricultural frontier into the autonomous regions
00:05:23has unleashed wave of violence between the mosquitos, the
00:05:27indigenous majority in the North Atlantic and the peasants
00:05:32the third parties. We are along the West Book river in West
00:05:36Palm. It was the hotspot during the armed conflict, but due to
00:05:40its isolation, little is known about. area it take
00:05:44to go from Managua to Waspam, to go from Managua to
00:05:47Westburm, it takes yet another 7 hours sail along
00:05:50the Koko river, the border river between Nicaragua and Honduras,
00:06:10here in my house because they left me. The time that
00:06:13the colonists came, I ran away.
00:06:16They burned here, right?
00:06:20So we left
00:06:23here, they left us.
00:06:26We ran away, right? And we left the animals, the
00:06:29pigs, cows, everything abandoned.
00:06:33So now we are refugees, refugees,
00:06:37right? How is the house?
00:06:40Squito communities used to live in Polowewas on the banks of the
00:06:44Waspark river. No one is living there right now. The 98
00:06:48people who lived there fled in October 2015 after being
00:06:51invaded by peasants who made their way from the mountain to the
00:06:55river. They shot, they shot, and
00:06:59then from there they started
00:07:02burning. They came in here, they already had
00:07:05an ambush. So my son
00:07:07came calmly, well, he came. And
00:07:10then when she came. They had an ambush when they came, well,
00:07:14they picked up the body and then the boy and
00:07:18then the boy, they
00:07:20killed him, but we came hidden to carry, but we came
00:07:24hidden to carry
00:07:26bananas.
00:07:30ago the Greytown community did not practically exist,
00:07:33today there are few thousand peasants living in this area which is
00:07:37regarded as the southern entrance to the city of
00:07:40Waspam.
00:07:42We emigrated
00:07:47to this place because here
00:07:49there was a better hope for life, there was a
00:07:53better way to raise cattle, there
00:07:57is more favorable, cheaper land, where
00:08:01we lived it was more expensive and our
00:08:04space was very small there, here we have more space to settle down
00:08:08to work, looking for a better
00:08:09horizon.
00:08:13carefully with that
00:08:14pump.
00:08:21You clear first, right? You clear the brush, after clearing it, you
00:08:25burn it. After that, if there isn't, if you can burn it with
00:08:29fire and you can clear it with liquid, with supplies, after that
00:08:32you sprinkle the seeds, after sprinkling the seeds you have to maintain
00:08:36it, to fumigate so that the grass can grow
00:08:39up and the brush stays down. And after that you already have the
00:08:43pasture, then you will build wire fences to divide the
00:08:47pastures to move the cattle from one pasture to another.
00:09:06What the producers do is continue to advance, make more pasture, more pasture as
00:09:10their cattle grows... their livestock
00:09:13grows, so he wears himself out looking for
00:09:17food throughout that open territory, right? And
00:09:20in the end they produce neither milk nor the
00:09:24meat they should produce, it is
00:09:27totally inefficient from the point of view of livestock
00:09:30production, uh, but since there are
00:09:33large areas that are made,
00:09:36then uh, the
00:09:39production is by compensating it with...
00:09:42attention
00:09:44not all the mestizos who are in these places have bought land
00:09:48from the Miskitos and despite the conditions
00:09:51we have, they continue to sell land, if you go to where
00:09:55they live and you tell them to sell you 10 manzanas, 50 manzanas,
00:09:59200 manzanas, the Miskitos still sell them, so I don't know what the
00:10:03purpose of this is, right, because the Miskitos
00:10:05go further, they go further looking for Haspán, looking for Río
00:10:09Coco, what is this area here, there is nothing, there is no longer...
00:10:15When different conflicts have occurred, we have approached the authorities
00:10:19to demand that we ask for support, that they recognize our documents
00:10:23that we are not invaders, that...
00:10:31that we entered through mutual
00:10:34them, that they knew that we were in their territory and they gave us the
00:10:38document, they sign it and seal it that
00:10:41we are there and they know that we are there, that they authorize us to
00:10:44live there, look here at least, look,
00:10:47he signed, it says that this person is called Félix
00:10:51Suárez, territorial trustee.
00:10:55There is the seal and there is the signature and there is the ID
00:10:58number, it is there, and rather imagine, here we had a
00:11:02little document where they signed a quantity of money that
00:11:06they receive in exchange for one of the documents, imagine that this was a large cost
00:11:09for all the total that we have spent, with that document we have spent
00:11:13more than one and a half million. that phenomenon has also occurred
00:11:16where some community member,
00:11:19no, who at some point has exercised some level of authority like a
00:11:23trustee, no, uh, well, has
00:11:26sold, in quotation marks,
00:11:30sold because he cannot sell the lands to
00:11:33a colonist, no, that is totally illegal, he cannot
00:11:36do it and that sale has no
00:11:41of the indigenous leaders, the population they represent has been
00:11:45displaced and are moving towards the
00:11:47north.
00:11:56All the Miskito communities on the Waspark River have been set on
00:12:00fire and more than 3,00 people have been displaced. They
00:12:04are seeking refuge in communities on the Koko river,
00:12:07whether its Nicaraguan or Honduran side.
00:12:10Others, with less luck, have been kidnapped or murdered.
00:12:14There were once more than 300 inhabitants, but there are only
00:12:18about 60 people who are living there right now. There is practically
00:12:21no food since the crops were abandoned following the conflict.
00:12:25there is not a single teacher there at school. Initially 29
00:12:29families settle down in the Wasp community located at the junction of the
00:12:33Wasp river and the Coco river. Today the population
00:12:36has doubled thanks to the families coming from Was and two
00:12:40other communities.
00:13:10the current of the Coco River has privileged the Honduran
00:13:13side, supplying it with sands rich in
00:13:16gold. The conflict has forced the
00:13:18Nicaraguan...
00:13:25to survive, we had yucca, malanga,
00:13:27rice, everything was left in the
00:13:31mountain.
00:13:33So we cross here
00:13:37to work, as there is gold here and this is Honduras, this
00:13:41land is Honduras, we know well, we are abusing
00:13:45this land.
00:13:47And now let's see what the government thinks, if it doesn't want
00:13:51to leave the Miskitos like this, they better die.
00:13:55We are going to die, but with bullets point to point that we will die
00:13:59now.
00:14:02The Coco Riverside is home to 128 Miskito
00:14:05communities, and according to their leaders, they are all
00:14:09armed. The collective objective is to restore the
00:14:12land. To achieve that objective, they buy and make
00:14:15weapons.
00:14:19tighten it, tighten it and that's it.
00:14:22It has no spring or anything, so it has
00:14:25to be thrown away and put back
00:14:29pointing at the person. The person is
00:14:32already completely dead.
00:14:34We have recovered
00:14:38weapons by exchanging animals so we could
00:14:41defend the land against the
00:14:44colonists. Number 22,
00:14:48this number 12 shotgun
00:14:51and
00:14:54more weapons. Like
00:14:56AKs, like
00:14:5915
00:15:02and from the drug traffickers that we have recovered
00:15:05those weapons. the
00:15:08drug traffickers and there are some that have
00:15:12been found from the old mailbox from the
00:15:1580s that have had
00:15:18conflict with the government and
00:15:21from that era. they have left them boxed,
00:15:25well, but there are some that were all
00:15:28ruined, but some still work.
00:15:32communities, the Miskitos
00:15:37violently evicted the migrant miners who were extracting gold
00:15:40from the
00:15:43Santa Rosa.
00:15:46Morobila, they attacked us on September
00:15:4911, 2015, around 4 in the
00:15:52afternoon, armed with 80
00:15:56men, they surrounded us in the village where we
00:15:59were, then after we were surrounded,
00:16:02they came in firing, shooting,
00:16:06shouting at the people, that no one should run because whoever
00:16:09runs
00:16:10dies.
00:16:14They took all the civilians that they captured, they
00:16:17made us kneel, then after making them kneel, he gave
00:16:21an order to one of his soldiers and
00:16:24told them to grab them and we have to whip them.
00:16:37we had no conflict with what was a matter of
00:16:41land grabbing, but we worked under agreement with the
00:16:45community leaders, where
00:16:47each person for their business activity
00:16:51of mining work paid a tariff of
00:16:54taxes, here we have
00:16:56receipts and receipts and more receipts
00:17:00where the seals of the territorial
00:17:03authorities are, where they sign and receive the amounts
00:17:07of money that was paid to them, Mr. Elvis Elvis Hernández
00:17:10Pantín paid 3000 córdobas, he is paying
00:17:14for payment of milling operations, already after the
00:17:17assault on the mine they began to evict the colonists
00:17:21and in some occasions they evicted the colonists
00:17:24with violence, they kidnapped colonists, they murdered
00:17:27colonists. These videos are of poor quality because
00:17:31they were taken with
00:17:32cell phones.
00:17:36In the video appear two corpses that the peasant brothers
00:17:39found already putrefied, one of them
00:17:42decapitated and where they felt forced to
00:17:46bury these two people in the place where they found them because their
00:17:49transfer was impossible due to the state of the bodies.
00:18:02In this area alone, more than 600 people live,
00:18:05all in complete isolation. there are no medical
00:18:09facilities, no schools, nor the law
00:18:12in this place. The peasants were assaulted, raped,
00:18:16kidnapped and murdered by the Miskito. Like the
00:18:19Indians, the peasants have armed themselves to resolve this conflict
00:18:23on their own. Their arsenal is full of hunting weapons and AK
00:18:27rifles, although there are rumors that the weapons would be more
00:18:30varied. As for the AK rifles, they are said to
00:18:34be handed over to the authorities.
00:18:39the state forces, it was made known, they declared them to the
00:18:43state, so they had them, yes, they declared them and what did the
00:18:46state tell them, that they were prohibited, but that we had the right
00:18:50to self-defense,
00:18:54so that anyway, what we were going to do with a 22-caliber rifle we could do with
00:18:58an AK and what was going to be done with an AK and what was going to be done with an
00:19:01AK could be done with a 22-caliber rifle, another of the things that
00:19:05the army and the DEA have said is that they do not penetrate,
00:19:09so they declared them, but
00:19:12that was the situation, they were told not to surrender because we were
00:19:16in trouble, because the state did not want to help
00:19:18them.
00:19:26the river is no longer navigated for security reasons. A
00:19:29white flag is the agreed signal to let this boat sail
00:19:32on. After the attack on Morobila, the Miskitos did
00:19:36not manage to recover the mine. On the way that leads to the
00:19:40mine, more than 15 men, all armed to the teeth, guard the entire
00:19:44root. They didn't reveal their faces to the
00:19:46camera.
00:19:55Practically
00:19:57everything was looted and
00:19:59destroyed, because what we are finding here is only
00:20:03destruction, the ruins here.
00:20:06I had a workshop here. Mechanical workshop,
00:20:10mining equipment
00:20:13and in the upper part here
00:20:17we have a point in partnership with the other gentlemen who
00:20:20worked, that point is about a loss of approximately
00:20:23$23 in investment and labor.
00:20:50to recover or to buy the weapon,
00:20:52but through dialogue we have dialogued to see
00:20:56if they can get us weapons
00:20:59for weapons to rescue the
00:21:03mine, let's say they are weapons like on credit, like
00:21:07on credit.
00:21:14and displaced more than 3, indigenous
00:21:17people, although there are no accurate figures due to the lack of attention this
00:21:21problem has received from the authorities. In the
00:21:24capital we tried insistently to talk with the army officials, but the
00:21:27response was always elusive just as it
00:21:30has been with the demands of the indigenous people, the peasants and the
00:21:33miners. many communities of the
00:21:37Caribbean, no, precisely because the
00:21:40escalation of the conflict, even at some moments when it takes an
00:21:44armed form, no, represents a death
00:21:47threat, there are kidnappings, etc.,
00:21:50this somehow generates a situation
00:21:53uh, on one hand of fear, but on the other hand, the
00:21:57need to defend oneself against this, so
00:22:01the probable tendency is that this will worsen
00:22:04if it is not adequately
00:22:07intervened and
00:22:10the conflict is not sought to be resolved peacefully. Moreover, the advance of the
00:22:14agricultural frontier is not the only factor resulting in the def.
00:22:18and all of that was approximately
00:22:50a dam, approximately
00:22:53one kilometer, 400 meters wide of water, right?
00:23:07Undeniably, there is a direct relationship between deforestation
00:23:10and the effects that drought and
00:23:14climate change have on the conditions of the
00:23:16country. To the extent that logging continues,
00:23:20we will have greater difficulties in obtaining
00:23:23the necessary water to supply the
00:23:26needs of the populations, mainly those areas
00:23:29where it is most
00:23:32deforested, where there is less water availability, and
00:23:36unfortunately there are also the highest poverty rates in the
00:23:39country.
00:23:43it was one of those where the water ran over it during the winter, and
00:23:47now.
00:24:04Here we have another ear of corn,
00:24:06this is evidence, look, instead of
00:24:10producing corn, what it could
00:24:11produce,
00:24:17well, there wasn't enough rain.
00:24:21to curdle our corn,
00:24:24a concern that we families have, since
00:24:28what this does is force
00:24:31us to migrate to other places and look for
00:24:34survival alternatives for our
00:24:36family.
00:24:39They are totally degraded soils and
00:24:42environments, therefore this has generated pressure
00:24:45in the forested
00:24:47areas, because people migrate
00:24:50to the Atlantic, which is the rainiest part of the country,
00:24:54to be able to plant and harvest what they
00:24:57need to have food in their
00:25:01homes. Currently this migration has been maintained at a
00:25:05small scale. However, if the drought continues, the displaced
00:25:08people from the dry corridor could contribute to the advance of the
00:25:12agricultural frontier and become new actors in the conflict between
00:25:16the Miskitos and the peasants.
00:25:30Blue Pill shows you reality, the other lets the story
00:25:33go exactly where you need to. Choose
00:25:37carefully.
00:25:43What do you see? A plane. Fly
00:25:47Dubai.
00:26:05What happens next? Row
00:26:0716.
00:26:10Pilot, very determined
00:26:13plumber.
00:26:20How does he reach the cockpit? He stops following normal
00:26:23physics.
00:26:37"What is the Omani pilot doing? Thinking about what? Maybe he's
00:26:40wondering why he's even here? Israel had
00:26:43already screened the passenger and crew lists. Oman has no diplomatic
00:26:47relations with Israel, so an Omani pilot shouldn't have been cleared
00:26:51for this flight. Maybe that's what he's thinking about. Why doesn't he lock the
00:26:54cockpit? He'd have to stand up and he'd get
00:26:58thrown across the cockpit. But the plumber can cross 15 rows. Everything
00:27:01works different. From row 16
00:27:04forward.
00:27:13Can't he use the plane to stop him? He tries.
00:27:36So the captain is down, the other pilot is tied up with
00:27:40headphones.
00:27:45The plumber goes back to do what, fly the
00:27:48plane. Any flight training?
00:27:51No. Simulator? No. Then what does he
00:27:54know?
00:28:15You just pull it. You just pull it toward herself and
00:28:19the plane comes
00:28:20up.
00:28:23That's what makes it impressive. Who's going to
00:28:27land it? I have something for that
00:28:29too. From here I take
00:28:33over. I'm a
00:28:35pilot. Me too. Interesting.
00:28:38Your turn.
00:28:41What
00:28:45do you see? An American airman over
00:28:47Iran.
00:28:51Parachute. Not properly. Impact.
00:28:53Hurt.
00:28:58Dead. No, injured, a
00:29:01little.
00:29:08So he waits for rescue?
00:29:09No.
00:29:17He climbs, climbs what? The
00:29:20mountain.
00:29:28Good. That's interesting too, of course.
00:29:35Every crime needs an excuse, and when they don't have
00:29:38one, they make up a story.
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