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I don't know what the future holds.

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I can't imagine what is going to come.

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I don't know if...

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in a year or two...

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the lake will disappear.

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But...

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to leave the island?

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No. That would be impossible for me.

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I'm a businessman here.
I have an avocado plantation. That's all.

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In the past, for the people of
the former island of Jarácuaro,

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the lake was a sacred place.

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Because we lived from it.

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Today, unfortunately...

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we're seeing the lake die.

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It's in agony.

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THE CALL FOR AUTONOMY
IS ALSO BECOMING EVER GREATER

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As indigenous communities,

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we have more than 500 years of resistance,
of continual struggle.

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We've been caring for and looking after
our territories, our waters.

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We have to extend a cordial invitation
to all those

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in favor of the autonomy project.

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We've been organizing things so that

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the indigenous community of Jarácuaro
be administrated...

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in accordance with its customs
by persons that they themselves elect.

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Please raise a hand to...

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endorse this order of the day please.

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That's a clear majority.

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It's approved.
The order of the day is passed.

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By agreement of the community,
we have opted

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to be governed by this system
of self-government.

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Today is the day.
We're going to make history.

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- Juchari Uinapekua!
- Our strength!

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Juchari Uinapekua!

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Our strength!

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- Viva Jarácuaro!
- Viva!

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- Viva Jarácuaro!
- Viva!

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- Long live Jarácuaro and its autonomy.
- Viva!

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Ancestrally, for the Purépecha culture,

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you have, or you uphold your traditions
and customs.

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It's our indigenous communities

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that get the least attention

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from our own president and government,
from the state.

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All the Purépecha indigenous communities,

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they haven't looked after them
the way they should.

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there was a time when, if you said,

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"I'm indigenous,"

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they abused you, they beat you.

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They didn't attend to you.

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They let you die.

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And that's also why
we're fighting for this now.

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To save the culture, and the customs
and traditions of each community.

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Well, the new fire...

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it has great importance
at community level.

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Today, we are brothers.

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We have the same belief.

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tonight we unite

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to ignite the new fire.

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in the past

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they used to say.
The fire existed before the conquest.

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They called it god, because without light,

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and without heat,
obviously you don't survive.

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Jarácuaro was one of
the first tribes

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that started to worship fire.

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We were there in the evening

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with the aim of

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delivering the "mindas" there.

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and the announcement

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where they would celebrate this
the following year.

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My name is Santiago Marcos Cruz.

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I'm from the Jarácuaro community.

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I'm 51 years old.

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And I'm ready to fight.

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Yes, to be honest,
I like living in Janitzio,

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because we don't have any crime.

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Yes, young people now

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are a little more aware
than our predecessors.

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But...

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weapons, killings here, killings there,
there's none of that.

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Nothing happens. We all know each other.

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So the island is very tranquil,
and I like living there.

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I have had opportunities to leave,
but I don’t like the life outside.

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I wore this that time.

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I'm going now.

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My name is Carlos Manuel.

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I'm from the island of Janitzio.

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I'm 21 years old.

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And I'm a fisherman.

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are you arriving by canoe ?

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okay, I'll be there on the shore
flipping the canoes

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It has changed a lot.

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I didn't experience it myself,

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but my parents told me about
what their grandparents experienced.

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They caught tons of fish in boats.
everyone fished.

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Now you can't. even..

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fill a boat or two. That's a lot,
filling a boat or two, in one or two days.

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To get to Jarácuaro,
they always used canoes.

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Today they get in a minibus
and go quickly,

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and they used to appreciate all this.

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Including walking, because
you have to walk several kilometers.

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I think it's more difficult to find a job
over there on the island.

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You don't have a steady job.

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You have to leave to look for one
in other places.

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We're safer here than living in a city.

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There's no... shooting.

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They don't kill people.

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We all know each other there.

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We're... Let's say we are all each other.

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Here you run the risk

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that they'll rob you, they'll mug you.

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Ladies and gentlemen of Jarácuaro,
January 24, 2022,

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a big bull-riding show today,
three ranches, 15 riders.

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Let's introduce to the Jarácuaro audience

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these men of great courage

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and lots of bravery
in the Michoacana competition.

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Here are the guys
from the community ronda.

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Let's quickly introduce

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the men seeking an autonomous Jarácuaro.

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Let's have the members
of the community ronda.

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Good afternoon to everyone present here.

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You're welcome here in this village,

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one hundred percent humble.

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I just want to make one thing clear.

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We, as security from the communal ronda,
are here to look after the village,

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to do something for the people.

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We don't want any problems.
We want to maintain order.

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I want you to understand one thing,
that we should be united as one community.

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And also thanks to all the communities
who are visiting us.

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Make yourselves at home.

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Jarácuaro will always welcome you
with open arms.

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So on behalf of myself and all my
companions from the community ronda,

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we're here to serve you. Thanks you.

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Thanks, guys. There they are,
the men from the community ronda.

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Let's hear some applause and recognition.

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Today, the community ronda
is coming back to life again

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in the various indigenous communities

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out of necessity.

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I do it
for a simple, straightforward reason.

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It's because they're my children
and my family.

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And if I don't start in my home,
no one else is going to start in my home.

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And much less outside my home.

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So I think that,
to save those traditions and customs,

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or our community roots,

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I think we have to begin in our homes.

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I live in a community in Jarácuaro,
the ex-island.

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I've lived here in Jarácuaro
since I was born.

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I'm 53 years old.

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I've been here all my life.

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And we will continue here.

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So, regarding the lake, I feel that

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it's changed more than 100 percent,
or, let's say, a huge amount.

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- Mari?
- Coming!

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Hurry up!

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I am hurrying.

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My father was one of the fishermen.

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Before...

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The island used to live from fishing.
Everybody used to fish.

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Where we are now...
We came in the car now,

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but people used to come by canoe.

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To fish.

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And...

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And due to all the pollutants,

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from what we're eating,
from what we're drinking,

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we forget it out here on the land
and in the lake, and the fish start dying.

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Or we burn plastics.

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Of course we don't pollute
more than the factories.

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Due to this and the avocado farmers,

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the water doesn't flow
down into the basin anymore.

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And I think in a few years,
it's going to be a desert.

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From here to Janitzio,
it's about 600 meters,

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to get to Janitzio by car.

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You're going by donkey!

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Mari is going by donkey
from here to there.

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And the people are going to walk
from Janitzio as well.

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Nowadays...

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we can't live without Coke.

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Can you bring me a tray?

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My name is María Antonia Guzmán Talavera.

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I was born here in Janitzio,
and I live here.

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I'm 78 years old.

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I'm a worker. 

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I like it. I still like working 

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When I got married,

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I said, "Let's buy that piece of land."

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And we found this small plot,

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which cost us 300 pesos in those days.

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And we built there.

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Just as he used to support me,
I also supported him a lot.

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Yes, but he was a worker too.

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I carried on selling tacos, lemonade.

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work with a lot of sacrifice

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Working, with great sacrifice,
but appreciating it.

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That's how we did it. That's really how.

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And that's how we made the house up here.

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Yes.

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If we needed something,
we had to go to Pátzcuaro.

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If we didn't need anything,
we didn't leave.

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We all come here to Pátzcuaro
to get our supplies.

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Every week, every Friday,

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we come to get
all the vegetables we needed.

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The people from the store see us
taking all the stuff back to the island.

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What else do you want?

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That's it, because I don't know
if I'll see Doña Güera.

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- And mushrooms?
- How much is that?

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Ninety-five pesos. Ninety-five pesos.

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We don't want to use
the water from the lake anymore.

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It's better from bottles,

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even though there is tap water, but...

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because the water isn't good,

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we only use it to clean.

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We use bottled water to drink
and for the food.

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The way I see it, the water is polluted.

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The water was very beautiful,
very beautiful.

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The island used to look really nice,
with the fishermen.

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They caught all different kinds of fish.

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It looked really beautiful.

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The nets all around looked very pretty,

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because they arrived
and pulled out the nets.

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The island with the nets all around.

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Yes, the lake was very pretty,
but now it's going to waste, poor thing.

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Yes, there was more respect.

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For nature.

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And there wasn't as much trash
as there is now.

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But before,

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we only threw away what we had eaten.

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Not like now. We take it out by the ton.

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It's getting more contaminated.
There are some parts...

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Well, there's one part where...

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there's sewage coming down.

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It's a place where there are plants
and it's close to the lake.

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I remember going there with my dad
when we were kids,

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to get water.

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Spring water, you could say.

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And we helped ourselves filled it up, and we left.

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Years later, we went there again,
and it was all...

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full of sewage.

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Really black, black. It all looked black.

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And it's not only polluting
the good drinking water,

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it's starting to poison all the lakes.

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Here, for example, in Lake Pátzcuaro,

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sewage is being discharged into it.

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This is causing lots of irises to grow,

00:24:33.959 --> 00:24:36.959
and the few remaining fish

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are being poisoned and they're dying.

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They no longer have the same taste,

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or the same size as the fish did before.

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There aren't any fish
like my father told me there used to be.

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He said they were huge,
and there were fish that...

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He says they don't have
the same taste anymore.

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The fish have lost their taste.

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On this side, the fish taste of gasoline.

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The meat is very different,
it doesn't taste the same.

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I feel that
this is due to the contamination

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caused by the motorboats, by the gasoline,
and partly by the plants.

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All the sewage, 

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flows down into the basin
of Lake Pátzcuaro.

00:25:43.879 --> 00:25:47.760
Even if you put in filters,
with all the chemicals they use,

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it's still not water
that you can use to drink.

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And apart from it, the sewage from
patzcuaro every island has it

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except jaracuaro has it

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The second thing,
and I don't know how to say this,

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but there's a plague,
an infection of avocado plantations.

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I feel that this must be due
to the avocado farmers.

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it is affecting us,

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because most of the communities all around

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come to get water from here,

00:26:32.800 --> 00:26:38.160
to put out fires,
or sometimes they steal water.

00:26:39.639 --> 00:26:44.239
They steal it,
to take to the avocado plantations.

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But...

00:26:46.839 --> 00:26:48.879
You could say that I'm...

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I'm still a child in the community

00:26:51.440 --> 00:26:54.120
in terms of voicing opinions
about these things.

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Several plantations have cisterns
that have a storage capacity

00:27:02.800 --> 00:27:06.040
for thousands of liters of rainwater,

00:27:06.199 --> 00:27:09.959
and all that water
should be down here in the basin.

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And it doesn't get here, because
they're all harvesting it for themselves.

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They're collecting it.

00:27:25.599 --> 00:27:28.720
The water level of the lake is falling.

00:27:28.879 --> 00:27:30.720
It's falling more and more,

00:27:30.879 --> 00:27:34.720
even though only by a little,
but you can see the level is falling.

00:27:44.360 --> 00:27:45.599
The water is disappearing.

00:27:45.800 --> 00:27:47.480
Everybody is wasting water.

00:27:48.639 --> 00:27:50.639
And humans can't live without water.

00:27:52.959 --> 00:27:55.000
We never thought of the future.

00:27:58.199 --> 00:28:00.480
Before we bought bottled water...

00:28:01.760 --> 00:28:03.559
And that's what we said,

00:28:03.720 --> 00:28:08.199
"There will come a day when we buy water
the way you buy a soda."

00:28:08.599 --> 00:28:10.360
People laughed at us.

00:28:10.519 --> 00:28:12.360
They're already buying it.

00:28:12.919 --> 00:28:15.519
We're buying bottles of water

00:28:16.239 --> 00:28:19.839
You pay from 20 up to 50 pesos
for one of these bottles.

00:28:30.080 --> 00:28:33.319
The water is disappearing,
and no one understands this,

00:28:33.400 --> 00:28:34.639
and no one believes this.

00:28:35.639 --> 00:28:37.680
But I'm almost certain

00:28:38.239 --> 00:28:39.919
that the war we're going to have
will be because of this.

00:28:40.599 --> 00:28:41.839
Over water.

00:28:57.519 --> 00:29:00.199
When I go out,
I feel like the water is yelling at me,

00:29:00.400 --> 00:29:02.319
saying, "I'm dying."

00:29:02.480 --> 00:29:04.120
"And you're deaf."

00:29:04.279 --> 00:29:07.440
"You're not listening.
And seeing even less."

00:29:08.760 --> 00:29:12.040
"You're letting time pass by,
minutes, hours,

00:29:13.040 --> 00:29:16.959
and with each day or hour that passes,
the water is disappearing."

00:29:18.959 --> 00:29:21.199
Because it's mud, it's not water.

00:29:21.360 --> 00:29:23.959
So we have no water anymore in the basin.

00:29:24.120 --> 00:29:26.120
It's a puddle, and no more.

00:29:32.319 --> 00:29:36.879
As the water level drops,
it affects me first,

00:29:37.680 --> 00:29:40.800
because it's not very deep,
and it's starting to dry up.

00:29:40.959 --> 00:29:43.720
And the lake dries up more and more,
and what happens

00:29:43.879 --> 00:29:47.800
is that I go out to the deepest parts.

00:29:49.839 --> 00:29:53.360
I can't catch
what I used to catch here anymore.

00:29:53.839 --> 00:29:56.480
So the lack of water impacts me.

00:29:57.040 --> 00:29:59.080
So I'm affected...

00:30:00.319 --> 00:30:02.160
by the lake drying up.

00:30:10.680 --> 00:30:12.000
Let's go.

00:30:21.800 --> 00:30:25.440
- a man was waiting for you.
-Yes, look now i am here.

00:30:31.599 --> 00:30:34.760
I met her at high school,
but I'd only seen her.

00:30:34.959 --> 00:30:37.680
Actually, when I met her,
I was in Rosarito.

00:30:37.839 --> 00:30:42.680
I was working at a company.
I had to move there for economic reasons.

00:30:46.559 --> 00:30:48.959
I think it was something very powerful,

00:30:49.120 --> 00:30:53.720
because having seen her from a distance,
or having felt a very strong attraction,

00:30:53.879 --> 00:30:56.080
it made me come back.

00:30:58.319 --> 00:31:00.279
We're not going to make it.

00:31:00.440 --> 00:31:03.120
- The canoe is no good...
- We'll just get very wet.

00:31:10.839 --> 00:31:12.559
Hey, pull a bit.

00:31:13.279 --> 00:31:15.239
Come on, come on, I've got it.

00:31:21.120 --> 00:31:25.680
Firstly, I feel a lot of love for her.

00:31:27.480 --> 00:31:30.400
I've liked her since the moment I met her.

00:31:31.919 --> 00:31:34.720
Her way of talking, her way of thinking.

00:31:36.199 --> 00:31:37.879
That's it.

00:31:38.680 --> 00:31:43.519
She also told me what her plans were,

00:31:43.680 --> 00:31:45.199
what she wanted.

00:31:45.959 --> 00:31:48.360
I fell in love with her.

00:32:03.680 --> 00:32:07.080
I think our love was so strong
that we had to...

00:32:07.239 --> 00:32:13.040
All the plans that she had made,
she never went ahead with them.

00:32:14.000 --> 00:32:15.879
She decided to be with me.

00:32:16.080 --> 00:32:17.680
And we got married.

00:32:19.919 --> 00:32:21.959
She wanted to carry on studying,

00:32:22.120 --> 00:32:24.400
but we wanted to have a family

00:32:24.559 --> 00:32:28.040
before we got jobs.

00:32:28.199 --> 00:32:31.720
Perhaps it wasn't the best decision,

00:32:31.879 --> 00:32:34.360
but we're a team,

00:32:34.519 --> 00:32:36.519
we love each other,

00:32:36.680 --> 00:32:38.879
we've never disrespected each other,

00:32:39.040 --> 00:32:43.080
and I feel that by supporting each other
we're going to get ahead.

00:32:44.239 --> 00:32:47.080
So, she's supported me in my work.

00:32:47.239 --> 00:32:50.639
She's supported me at home.

00:32:52.639 --> 00:32:55.720
When I get home tired
and she gives me something to eat,

00:32:55.879 --> 00:32:58.400
I feel really great,

00:32:58.559 --> 00:33:01.000
when she makes me something delicious.

00:33:01.400 --> 00:33:05.879
So I'm tired, but the next day
I want to carry on working,

00:33:06.040 --> 00:33:10.279
because if I don't,
I'll lose myself in the food she gives me.

00:33:16.160 --> 00:33:17.720
A big round of applause!

00:33:17.919 --> 00:33:19.480
He's got springs for feet.

00:33:19.639 --> 00:33:22.879
Getting his hands on Tretay.

00:33:23.080 --> 00:33:25.720
One, two, three, four.

00:33:25.919 --> 00:33:29.680
He's fighting! He's winning!
Give him a boost!

00:33:32.519 --> 00:33:35.279
I went with what I felt.

00:33:36.239 --> 00:33:39.000
She took me to her world.

00:33:39.160 --> 00:33:42.360
She showed me things that I didn't know.

00:33:42.519 --> 00:33:45.599
Like how to have fun with friends.

00:33:58.760 --> 00:34:00.800
I've never had fun like that.

00:34:00.959 --> 00:34:03.120
And I think that is why...

00:34:03.879 --> 00:34:07.919
she started to teach me things
that I didn't know about,

00:34:08.080 --> 00:34:12.440
like going to dances and stuff,
and I taught her different things.

00:34:13.519 --> 00:34:15.559
So, we should have come to here.

00:34:15.720 --> 00:34:17.760
- Direct.
- We would have got to here.

00:34:17.919 --> 00:34:21.319
"Tierra Mojada" will be there,
"Los Mendibi", "Andador Norteño".

00:34:21.480 --> 00:34:23.680
And "La Urienz".

00:34:28.199 --> 00:34:29.440
I'd prefer a bit of fish.

00:34:30.279 --> 00:34:32.319
Let's start dancing.

00:34:33.559 --> 00:34:35.080
The toro.

00:34:37.319 --> 00:34:38.680
She didn't want to come.

00:34:38.839 --> 00:34:42.199
- And when is your exam? - Sunday.
- I was going to come with Alex.

00:34:42.400 --> 00:34:44.680
They use small fishing nets.

00:34:44.839 --> 00:34:46.720
I have big nets.

00:34:47.360 --> 00:34:48.720
Chinchorro nets.

00:34:49.360 --> 00:34:50.720
Atarraya nets.

00:34:51.400 --> 00:34:53.400
- Butterfly nets.
- Me too.

00:34:55.440 --> 00:34:59.839
- What can I tell you? The "boat fish"...
- I've been fishing so much...

00:35:02.000 --> 00:35:05.000
There it is, man. Catch one, catch one!

00:35:09.239 --> 00:35:12.519
I even know the siren here,
she's my lover, man.

00:35:13.400 --> 00:35:14.879
The "boat" fish!

00:35:16.080 --> 00:35:18.639
They don't even come close to me.

00:35:19.760 --> 00:35:20.959
Where?

00:35:21.959 --> 00:35:24.720
- No, my ankles hurt too.
- You don't have any ankles.

00:35:24.919 --> 00:35:26.400
The only fisherman...

00:35:26.559 --> 00:35:28.480
You've only caught SpongeBob.

00:35:29.760 --> 00:35:32.519
Asshole, I caught Patrick Star!

00:35:33.879 --> 00:35:36.480
I've caught fucking Squidward.

00:35:37.599 --> 00:35:40.639
These assholes will never be
good fishermen like me.

00:35:40.800 --> 00:35:42.480
They'll never do it.

00:35:43.080 --> 00:35:46.639
- I'm the fisherman in the Janitzio unit.
- Go on! Go on!

00:35:46.800 --> 00:35:49.199
Okay, okay, that's your problem.

00:35:49.360 --> 00:35:51.879
You're hallucinating.
There are no problems here.

00:35:52.360 --> 00:35:54.440
Look, they're talking over there...

00:36:07.000 --> 00:36:10.080
I'd been here for a long time...

00:36:10.239 --> 00:36:13.239
without being in a relationship.

00:36:14.879 --> 00:36:20.120
So when I met her,
I fell in love with her, that's it.

00:36:58.919 --> 00:37:01.080
He was a hard working man.

00:37:01.239 --> 00:37:04.480
His destiny was simply fishing.

00:37:04.639 --> 00:37:05.839
Yes.

00:37:24.959 --> 00:37:28.519
He was a worker,
his way was to be a worker.

00:37:28.680 --> 00:37:29.839
Yes.

00:37:30.000 --> 00:37:32.919
We got together and chatted.

00:37:33.760 --> 00:37:37.319
And now we don't have...
We're going to borrow...

00:37:37.480 --> 00:37:41.680
And we did borrow.
In those days it was a lot of money.

00:37:41.839 --> 00:37:43.559
We borrowed money and...

00:37:43.720 --> 00:37:48.360
We worked and we went to take the money
to the people who lent it to us.

00:37:53.400 --> 00:37:56.800
So we only talk in Purépecha.

00:37:56.959 --> 00:37:59.319
We all help each other, like siblings.

00:37:59.919 --> 00:38:01.720
Like brothers and sisters, yes.

00:38:03.199 --> 00:38:06.120
But before, what people used to do,

00:38:06.279 --> 00:38:10.760
we tried to help each other to do things.

00:38:11.519 --> 00:38:13.319
To throw a party.

00:38:14.040 --> 00:38:18.959
It's like that now, too. It really is.
We all help one another.

00:38:28.599 --> 00:38:32.519
To God, you are offered to serve with good will

00:38:32.519 --> 00:38:36.000
and at the same time we pray 

00:38:36.160 --> 00:38:38.959
that one may do very well in life

00:38:39.120 --> 00:38:42.239
that you may never leave us without
sustenance and good health.

00:38:43.720 --> 00:38:48.720
Holy Mary, Mother of God,
pray for us sinners

00:38:48.879 --> 00:38:52.080
now and at the hour of our death, amen.

00:38:52.279 --> 00:38:54.760
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son
and to the Holy Spirit.

00:38:54.919 --> 00:38:59.360
As it was in the beginning, is now, and
ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

00:38:59.519 --> 00:39:01.959
Let us say one Our Father
and one Hail Mary

00:39:02.120 --> 00:39:07.120
for all the faithful and for
the mercy of God, may you rest in peace.

00:39:07.279 --> 00:39:08.319
So it shall be.

00:39:08.480 --> 00:39:12.760
Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name.

00:39:12.919 --> 00:39:18.400
Your kingdom come. Your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.

00:39:18.559 --> 00:39:22.639
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts,

00:39:22.839 --> 00:39:26.360
as we also have forgiven our debtors.

00:39:26.519 --> 00:39:31.000
And do not lead us into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.

00:39:41.440 --> 00:39:43.360
It has changed a lot.

00:39:44.919 --> 00:39:47.239
It's really disappearing,

00:39:47.400 --> 00:39:51.319
the life of my forefathers,
the life I've lived as well.

00:40:02.680 --> 00:40:06.720
I feel that security these days is worse.

00:40:07.800 --> 00:40:11.559
In the past we were quieter, more...

00:40:12.319 --> 00:40:17.720
We had more security.
Now you can't even go out on the street.

00:40:17.879 --> 00:40:19.480
There's a lot of crime.

00:40:21.239 --> 00:40:25.800
And here in the village,
we started out as five people.

00:40:25.959 --> 00:40:30.279
And of those five, two have already died.

00:40:30.760 --> 00:40:36.000
Who knows how we'll change
or how we'll adapt to what is happening.

00:40:41.120 --> 00:40:46.839
We grew to the point
where we have 66 people.

00:40:47.599 --> 00:40:50.040
This active ronda...

00:40:50.199 --> 00:40:54.120
It's us who are reactivating
or activating the village.

00:40:57.360 --> 00:41:00.400
We don't fight amongst ourselves,

00:41:00.559 --> 00:41:05.879
even if a party of a different color comes
to divide the community.

00:41:06.040 --> 00:41:09.919
Then you can't put up a big fight
for that community.

00:41:15.919 --> 00:41:18.120
if you're united, you have more.

00:41:18.319 --> 00:41:23.239
If you have a group or five groups
in a community, you don't have anything.

00:41:49.480 --> 00:41:51.319
That's how you do it.

00:41:59.319 --> 00:42:01.160
Off they go on a run.

00:42:05.239 --> 00:42:07.800
There's little trust
in the municipal police,

00:42:08.000 --> 00:42:11.919
because sometimes they're aggressive
or hit the kids,

00:42:12.080 --> 00:42:14.519
the young people and the girls.

00:42:16.480 --> 00:42:19.800
And sometimes what they do is...

00:42:20.400 --> 00:42:22.360
they recive a certain percentage and let them free

00:42:22.559 --> 00:42:27.839
What we do is make young people understand
that what they're doing isn't okay.

00:42:40.599 --> 00:42:41.839
You're downstairs?

00:42:44.959 --> 00:42:48.639
With this new process of change
in the community

00:42:49.400 --> 00:42:52.040
and in the security in the community,

00:42:52.199 --> 00:42:54.519
a lot of people are changing.

00:42:54.680 --> 00:42:59.440
A lot of people are already coming to us,
this other part of us.

00:43:00.080 --> 00:43:03.400
To protect the village and all the people.

00:43:08.080 --> 00:43:12.080
I know, at least, that when I'm leaving
my house, I'm just leaving my house.

00:43:12.239 --> 00:43:14.360
But I don't know if I'll be coming back.

00:43:14.519 --> 00:43:16.599
Or I don't know what state
I'll come back in.

00:43:16.760 --> 00:43:19.800
Or I don't know
if I'll be coming back at all.

00:43:31.440 --> 00:43:36.480
There used to be a lot of crime
in the community.

00:43:40.000 --> 00:43:43.120
We have a roadblock
at the entrance to the community.

00:43:43.760 --> 00:43:45.239
Now I...

00:43:45.440 --> 00:43:48.519
once a week, on Saturdays and Sundays,

00:43:48.680 --> 00:43:53.639
people come to help, some men, some women,

00:43:54.400 --> 00:43:56.680
adults and young people.

00:44:04.199 --> 00:44:08.839
Thanks to Mr. Juan Mangato,
the son of Mr. Demesio, brother of Temo.

00:44:09.000 --> 00:44:11.080
He sent us 1,000 pesos from the USA.

00:44:11.239 --> 00:44:13.440
Thanks, and may God give him
work and good health.

00:44:13.599 --> 00:44:15.040
Here's 1,000 pesos.

00:44:17.239 --> 00:44:20.239
Now that we've put the roadblock in place,

00:44:20.400 --> 00:44:24.720
we have been active in the ronda.

00:44:24.879 --> 00:44:29.519
Protecting the community,
doing patrols all around the community.

00:44:29.680 --> 00:44:31.400
It's a bit more under control.

00:44:32.040 --> 00:44:37.239
I don't mean to say that
everything is fine. We know it's not.

00:44:37.919 --> 00:44:43.000
So a lot of work is needed.
It will take a long time.

00:44:43.160 --> 00:44:47.720
Staying up all night,
the ronda, my partners...

00:44:47.879 --> 00:44:51.160
There have been times
when we didn't sleep.

00:44:51.959 --> 00:44:54.239
In case there is a dog.

00:44:55.440 --> 00:44:58.400
- Pepón!
-You'll hit more with that.

00:44:58.599 --> 00:45:00.000
Right in the heart.

00:45:00.760 --> 00:45:03.360
- This doesn't kill much.
- It doesn't sound like much.

00:45:04.440 --> 00:45:06.720
Pablito, look what i robbed at the museum.

00:45:06.879 --> 00:45:08.800
you go around with all kinds of stuff

00:45:12.800 --> 00:45:16.040
Two or three people here,
all the rest at the fiestas.

00:45:16.199 --> 00:45:19.760
We should put up the guard right or not

00:45:19.959 --> 00:45:22.599
how are we going to be here as you say,

00:45:22.760 --> 00:45:27.800
People come in here armed,
God knows where they come from.

00:45:27.959 --> 00:45:30.599
And we are here like this,
without anything.

00:45:31.599 --> 00:45:36.360
Maybe they come with bad intentions,
or whatever, but they don't do anything.

00:45:37.120 --> 00:45:38.559
So this...

00:45:39.120 --> 00:45:41.319
I was thinking about the support...

00:45:41.480 --> 00:45:44.559
How you doing? Good evening.
What I've got here is...

00:45:44.720 --> 00:45:49.400
somewhere outside here of Tócuaro, the cartel of the four letters

00:45:49.559 --> 00:45:52.480
Just to let you know
to keep a lookout please, guys.

00:45:53.239 --> 00:45:54.800
That's it.

00:45:54.959 --> 00:45:59.919
If you want to come to support,
come prepared, bring your guns.

00:46:00.120 --> 00:46:02.559
Again! This fucking spade is useless.

00:46:03.160 --> 00:46:05.440
Go on the right side, Dani!

00:46:08.839 --> 00:46:14.519
None of us knows beforehand
what the future holds.

00:46:14.680 --> 00:46:18.559
It's not certain
that you'll be alive tomorrow.

00:46:18.720 --> 00:46:22.279
We know we'll go to sleep,
but not if we'll wake up in the morning.

00:46:22.440 --> 00:46:24.440
Only the small ones.
These are the big ones.

00:46:37.639 --> 00:46:42.760
You guys with the rifles,
take position on the flanks.

00:46:42.959 --> 00:46:47.919
What for?
So that they feel the pressure too.

00:46:48.080 --> 00:46:49.199
Yes?

00:46:49.360 --> 00:46:52.040
Right now. Go?

00:46:52.199 --> 00:46:54.160
Say absolutely nothing.

00:46:54.319 --> 00:46:58.319
What if we see
some of their guys over there?

00:46:58.480 --> 00:47:01.040
Stay on your guard there. Okay?

00:47:01.199 --> 00:47:03.680
One group here,
one group there on the road.

00:47:03.839 --> 00:47:07.279
Because they want to intimidate us.
Get information.

00:47:07.440 --> 00:47:11.120
Maybe just tell them to keep it cool.

00:47:11.279 --> 00:47:13.040
They told you.

00:47:13.199 --> 00:47:17.720
- Let's hope nothing happens here. Right?
-Let's hope not.

00:47:19.319 --> 00:47:21.760
They were aiming at me there.

00:47:24.440 --> 00:47:26.879
Don't be afraid, assholes.
Give it 100 percent!

00:48:00.120 --> 00:48:02.480
Meeting other friends.

00:48:02.639 --> 00:48:05.360
Chatting with other friends.

00:48:05.519 --> 00:48:06.879
It's...

00:48:08.519 --> 00:48:12.760
Doing everything.
I feel really happy here.

00:48:12.959 --> 00:48:15.160
I feel good there.

00:48:15.319 --> 00:48:16.519
Yes.

00:48:34.480 --> 00:48:37.160
Leave those there too.

00:48:57.519 --> 00:48:59.440
It's your birthday!

00:49:00.919 --> 00:49:02.599
Surprise!

00:49:09.400 --> 00:49:12.760
So I have my big family, thank God.

00:49:16.360 --> 00:49:18.160
I have ten children.

00:49:18.319 --> 00:49:21.680
And counting my grandchildren,
there are even more of us.

00:49:29.720 --> 00:49:33.559
la bio, a la bao, a la bim bom ba

00:49:33.720 --> 00:49:37.400
Mama Tonna, Mamma Tonna, hip, hip, hooray!

00:49:38.360 --> 00:49:48.480
Take a bite, take a bite, take a bite!

00:49:58.839 --> 00:50:00.239
Bravo!

00:50:01.959 --> 00:50:04.080
A serviette. Pass me a serviette.

00:50:04.559 --> 00:50:07.239
another one!, another one!, another one!

00:50:21.400 --> 00:50:24.199
America, we're in Lazaro's house.

00:50:33.519 --> 00:50:35.360
Yes, it's beautiful.

00:50:38.639 --> 00:50:41.199
Us too now. We're going in in a minute.

00:50:41.360 --> 00:50:47.559
Because Wendy, Chocolini and Eratze
have been swimming since we arrived.

00:50:48.639 --> 00:50:49.839
Yes.

00:50:53.199 --> 00:50:56.680
Yes, it's good for swimming
here at the pier.

00:50:57.599 --> 00:51:00.000
Like we said. I told Lucila.

00:51:00.160 --> 00:51:05.680
It didn't occur to us to wear shorts
or bikinis to go in the water.

00:51:37.680 --> 00:51:40.599
Young people look more to the future now.

00:51:40.760 --> 00:51:42.839
But there are some who

00:51:43.000 --> 00:51:47.160
already think about
what is coming tomorrow.

00:51:47.319 --> 00:51:49.360
They know the lake will disappear.

00:51:49.519 --> 00:51:51.519
The ducks are coming. Look.

00:51:55.919 --> 00:51:57.760
for the day of the dead

00:51:58.400 --> 00:51:59.720
there are ducks

00:52:03.839 --> 00:52:06.239
Yes, they're ducks.

00:52:06.400 --> 00:52:08.639
- Yes, they're ducks.
- Yes.

00:52:14.519 --> 00:52:15.959
Open one side of it.

00:52:23.639 --> 00:52:24.639
Tamales?

00:52:27.639 --> 00:52:29.279
how is it?

00:52:30.440 --> 00:52:31.720
Oh! Crazy!

00:52:34.239 --> 00:52:36.040
Will we need more?

00:52:36.839 --> 00:52:39.639
We have enough for the Day of the Dead.

00:52:54.800 --> 00:52:57.680
Everyone will realize
that the lake won´t last forever.

00:52:58.480 --> 00:53:04.120
They're going to start looking for work,
or continue studying.

00:53:04.519 --> 00:53:10.080
So that they become teachers,
doctors, something special.

00:53:14.720 --> 00:53:16.360
It makes me sad, because...

00:53:17.480 --> 00:53:21.639
while the lake is still here,
I feel that everyone is going to be okay.

00:53:21.839 --> 00:53:25.760
Most of the islanders
make a living from the lake.

00:53:29.400 --> 00:53:31.760
Yes, I feel the pressure.

00:53:32.160 --> 00:53:34.160
I feel that...

00:53:34.879 --> 00:53:38.919
sooner or later,
I'll have to look for a job.

00:53:38.919 --> 00:53:40.559
That time is coming now.

00:53:56.839 --> 00:53:59.279
I didn't finish high school.

00:54:00.279 --> 00:54:02.919
I didn't continue studying.

00:54:03.959 --> 00:54:09.080
But, as a person,
I always want the best for my family.

00:54:10.919 --> 00:54:12.959
However much I work,

00:54:13.120 --> 00:54:17.000
it has been enough for me and for my wife.

00:54:17.559 --> 00:54:22.160
Now there's going to be
another mouth to feed.

00:54:29.519 --> 00:54:33.080
So it's better that it's me...

00:54:33.279 --> 00:54:37.639
who is exposed to other types of risks

00:54:38.480 --> 00:54:40.360
than my family.

00:54:40.519 --> 00:54:42.720
Yes, I'm going to feel bad,

00:54:42.879 --> 00:54:45.480
but I prefer them to live better...

00:54:46.160 --> 00:54:48.040
than me...

00:54:49.160 --> 00:54:53.080
seeing them suffer
and not having enough to eat or to...

00:54:54.519 --> 00:54:56.400
to buy a soda.

00:54:56.559 --> 00:54:59.080
So I prefer to go away.

00:55:37.559 --> 00:55:43.000
People say that
work is well-paid there, but...

00:55:45.680 --> 00:55:46.800
It's an option.

00:55:47.599 --> 00:55:50.800
For someone like me without work,
it would be an option.

00:55:52.720 --> 00:55:56.040
But sometimes things happen there.

00:55:57.919 --> 00:56:00.279
When you go to these kinds of jobs.

00:56:01.040 --> 00:56:02.480
There have been a lot of...

00:56:05.040 --> 00:56:07.360
They're killing a lot of people.

00:56:08.239 --> 00:56:10.919
And the cartels have arrived there

00:56:11.120 --> 00:56:12.959
in Michoacán.

00:56:13.160 --> 00:56:15.160
And things like that, but...

00:56:15.360 --> 00:56:18.680
Some appeared here, others there.

00:56:18.839 --> 00:56:22.480
And people didn't know
how they moved so fast.

00:56:23.720 --> 00:56:27.360
And now there are people
in pick-up trucks,

00:56:28.199 --> 00:56:29.559
with guns,

00:56:30.239 --> 00:56:31.680
and this makes...

00:56:32.239 --> 00:56:34.199
This makes you scared.

00:56:35.000 --> 00:56:40.440
And for that reason,
you don't want to go away to work,

00:56:40.599 --> 00:56:43.080
or to live out there, more than anything.

00:56:49.959 --> 00:56:53.680
These people who plant avocados,

00:56:53.879 --> 00:56:58.160
which many people call "green gold".

00:56:59.760 --> 00:57:01.800
Planting avocados...

00:57:02.879 --> 00:57:07.519
They do it with the intention
of having their own little gold mine.

00:57:07.720 --> 00:57:09.400
Selling avocados.

00:57:10.000 --> 00:57:12.760
And I feel it's a sad thing, because...

00:57:12.919 --> 00:57:16.160
they take out the pine trees
to plant avocado trees.

00:57:17.080 --> 00:57:22.839
You're taking out
part of the lungs of this area,

00:57:23.040 --> 00:57:26.680
to plant something that isn't.

00:57:28.120 --> 00:57:31.800
So planting avocados is harming the lake.

00:57:38.000 --> 00:57:43.519
The big fish can tolerate the pollution,

00:57:43.680 --> 00:57:45.279
but all the small ones...

00:57:46.239 --> 00:57:50.160
disappear, they start dying,
and they don´t grow

00:57:51.360 --> 00:57:53.400
Big carp...

00:57:53.599 --> 00:57:57.279
you used to get some like this.

00:57:58.599 --> 00:58:02.040
They don't grow as big as they used to.
That's finished.

00:58:03.080 --> 00:58:05.360
- we are finishing it.
- Yes.

00:58:05.959 --> 00:58:08.760
They don't let them grow like before.

00:58:15.199 --> 00:58:16.879
Let's go then.

00:58:26.440 --> 00:58:30.319
When the green gold fever began,

00:58:30.480 --> 00:58:33.120
obviously everyone wanted to plant them.

00:58:35.040 --> 00:58:37.239
They spread pests in the woods.

00:58:37.440 --> 00:58:40.480
Lots of people said, "Oh!"

00:58:40.680 --> 00:58:44.760
The idea in rural areas
is to leave fires burning.

00:58:45.440 --> 00:58:50.400
"Oh, someone brought a jar,
and as it was made of white glass,

00:58:50.559 --> 00:58:54.360
with the reflection of the sun,
it caused a fire by itself. Right?"

00:58:55.760 --> 00:58:58.400
Bullshit. It was intentional.

00:58:59.000 --> 00:59:01.000
The fires are intentional.

00:59:01.680 --> 00:59:03.720
four or five meters or two meters will do.

00:59:03.879 --> 00:59:06.760
By cutting straight ahead,
so that burns over there.

00:59:09.000 --> 00:59:11.120
Better come over here!

00:59:11.839 --> 00:59:14.279
We're not going to be able
to do a thing.

00:59:18.319 --> 00:59:21.680
Everything that humans say is bullshit.

00:59:22.319 --> 00:59:26.199
So, back then,
there was a lot of destruction.

00:59:26.400 --> 00:59:29.239
Lots of pests, lots of fires.

00:59:29.400 --> 00:59:31.639
And then overnight,

00:59:31.800 --> 00:59:35.760
the famous avocados magically appeared.

00:59:36.480 --> 00:59:40.279
There were less pests.

01:00:31.519 --> 01:00:36.519
The motivation of mine, is the community, the inhabitants

01:00:36.800 --> 01:00:41.000
the youngest children,
because they're the ones beginning life.

01:00:41.080 --> 01:00:45.680
So I think that's my motivation,
and that of my colleagues.

01:02:23.279 --> 01:02:24.879
eighty the bunch.

01:02:25.599 --> 01:02:27.480
And grab my bag.

01:02:59.040 --> 01:03:02.639
There was lot of respect here.
Great, great respect.

01:03:02.800 --> 01:03:06.800
Our ancestors held it in high regard.

01:03:56.720 --> 01:04:00.360
Here, here or here?

01:04:17.879 --> 01:04:20.080
- Look, it's better like that.
- Yes, it's better.

01:04:22.319 --> 01:04:24.559
Everything i have 

01:04:24.720 --> 01:04:28.319
Thanks to him.

01:04:31.120 --> 01:04:32.559
Waiting for the deceased.

01:04:32.760 --> 01:04:36.720
If he arrives or doesn't arrive,
or if he arrives at the house,

01:04:36.879 --> 01:04:39.080
where am I going to wait for him?

01:04:41.680 --> 01:04:45.680
I've never stayed in the cemetery.

01:04:50.199 --> 01:04:53.639
And me on my own there saying,

01:04:53.800 --> 01:04:57.599
"So many people here in the cemetery!"

01:05:00.959 --> 01:05:06.199
My mother-in-law, my mother,
we'd only take them offerings.

01:05:06.360 --> 01:05:08.559
But we wouldn't stay there.

01:05:09.639 --> 01:05:14.400
They didn't sell alcohol or sodas.
There were no drunks.

01:05:16.879 --> 01:05:20.040
And so many people came
to see us at the cemetery.

01:05:20.239 --> 01:05:21.599
the arches.

01:05:22.199 --> 01:05:25.639
Mostly, but they just came to visit.

01:05:25.800 --> 01:05:29.239
But they don't feel
anything of what I feel.

01:05:29.959 --> 01:05:32.760
I just thought that as I sat there.

01:05:32.919 --> 01:05:35.559
What I'm asking
is that they close the cemetery.

01:05:35.720 --> 01:05:37.800
- Why?
- Let's see what happens.

01:05:38.000 --> 01:05:39.639
Because I'm in mourning.

01:05:39.800 --> 01:05:42.040
- But why close it?
- I'm in mourning.

01:05:42.199 --> 01:05:44.160
Because I'm mourning.

01:05:44.360 --> 01:05:48.879
With all due respect,
that's the main attraction of this place.

01:05:49.040 --> 01:05:50.319
Screw the the main attraction!

01:05:53.559 --> 01:05:56.720
They have never let us be what we are.

01:05:56.919 --> 01:05:59.400
we are not actors.

01:05:59.599 --> 01:06:01.080
It's our way of life.

01:06:05.000 --> 01:06:08.480
When I went to the cemetery just now,

01:06:09.199 --> 01:06:11.440
I felt a lot,

01:06:12.040 --> 01:06:15.839
because I'd never been to this cemetery,

01:06:16.000 --> 01:06:18.160
to wait for the deceased.

01:06:19.400 --> 01:06:24.720
The way I see the Day of the Dead
has changed a bit.

01:06:24.919 --> 01:06:28.519
I no longer see it as,
"Its a day like any other".

01:06:28.680 --> 01:06:31.120
Instead, you feel happy,

01:06:31.319 --> 01:06:35.839
because they say, "They'll come. Although
you can't see them, they will be here."

01:06:36.000 --> 01:06:39.519
It's going to feel good
that the family is complete.

01:06:50.040 --> 01:06:53.239
The moment that I was there
in the cemetery,

01:06:53.839 --> 01:06:55.959
I felt a great sadness.

01:06:56.680 --> 01:07:01.160
I thought he was going to
be there with me.

01:07:01.360 --> 01:07:03.919
Chatting like we used to chat.

01:07:04.080 --> 01:07:05.480
But no.

01:07:06.559 --> 01:07:07.760
No.

01:07:12.239 --> 01:07:17.720
Jarácuaro was one of the tribes
that started to...

01:07:17.879 --> 01:07:22.440
It's our indigenous communities
who get the least attention

01:07:22.599 --> 01:07:25.120
from our own president and government,
from the state.

01:07:25.279 --> 01:07:29.440
The lake was very pretty,
but now it's going to waste, poor thing.

01:07:29.599 --> 01:07:34.639
We feel great sadness that day by day
they keep exterminating...

01:07:34.800 --> 01:07:38.000
There's a plague,
an infection of green gold.

01:07:38.160 --> 01:07:42.279
They have never let us be what we are.
It's our way of life.

01:07:42.440 --> 01:07:45.519
With guns, and this makes you scared.

01:07:45.680 --> 01:07:48.319
Full of sewage... Black, black.

01:07:48.480 --> 01:07:50.319
He died. They murdered him.

01:07:50.480 --> 01:07:52.919
We have to go this time,
because it will be forgotten.

01:07:53.080 --> 01:07:55.639
The rich people want to take our lands
from us,

01:07:55.800 --> 01:07:58.160
worth millions,
to set up avocado plantations.

01:07:58.319 --> 01:08:00.639
That's why we're here.
We're fighting for our land.

01:08:00.800 --> 01:08:03.360
- Viva Jarácuaro and its autonomy!
- Viva!

01:08:17.800 --> 01:08:22.800
The intensive march we had to Mexico City

01:08:22.800 --> 01:08:27.839
was a fight,
because we started to demonstrate,

01:08:30.480 --> 01:08:33.400
If it’s possible
You go there to struggle, to fight,

01:08:33.599 --> 01:08:36.599
for something your community
has never had.

01:08:38.760 --> 01:08:41.879
That was my mindset.

01:08:42.040 --> 01:08:44.959
Waiting for this new dawn.

01:08:49.120 --> 01:08:54.080
I have a job. I represent the community,
I'm part of the council.

01:08:55.720 --> 01:08:57.559
- Cevina?
- Here we are!

01:08:58.160 --> 01:09:00.360
The whole community is responding.

01:09:00.519 --> 01:09:04.440
Some are quite annoyed,
others are turning a blind eye,

01:09:04.599 --> 01:09:07.599
but the majority are up for the fight.

01:09:12.839 --> 01:09:15.599
So the mobilization that we organized,

01:09:15.760 --> 01:09:18.080
and not just the community of Jarácuaro,

01:09:18.239 --> 01:09:22.839
it's more like 37 communities
that were supporting the community,

01:09:23.000 --> 01:09:26.440
was to receive the direct budget.

01:09:26.599 --> 01:09:30.519
Because they've done that
in other communities as well.

01:09:36.080 --> 01:09:37.919
This is the power

01:09:38.120 --> 01:09:41.839
of the indigenous communities
to make their voices heard,

01:09:42.040 --> 01:09:43.839
of indigenous people.

01:10:03.199 --> 01:10:06.480
The first march we had in Mexico City

01:10:06.639 --> 01:10:12.519
put pressure on the president
of the Republic.

01:10:12.680 --> 01:10:15.199
I think it was something...

01:10:15.720 --> 01:10:20.919
that brought attention to us,
to the majority of indigenous peoples.

01:10:25.480 --> 01:10:31.279
On the second day, they were waiting
for us at eight in the morning

01:10:31.440 --> 01:10:34.519
at the Supreme Court of Justice,

01:10:34.720 --> 01:10:39.639
and they were waiting to hear our demands.

01:10:40.400 --> 01:10:45.080
- Juchari Uinapekua!
- Our strength!

01:10:49.239 --> 01:10:54.080
...of our hands,
and because we came to feed them.

01:10:54.239 --> 01:10:56.760
By fighting, by our sweat,

01:10:56.919 --> 01:10:59.400
everything we do for a capital city,

01:10:59.559 --> 01:11:02.800
and what do you give us in return?
You block us off,

01:11:02.959 --> 01:11:05.160
taking from us what is ours,

01:11:05.319 --> 01:11:07.120
and side-stepping us,

01:11:07.279 --> 01:11:09.160
sating yourselves with security,

01:11:09.319 --> 01:11:11.839
and doing things you shouldn't do.

01:11:12.000 --> 01:11:15.919
But don't miss a single payday, gentlemen.

01:11:16.080 --> 01:11:18.879
Because when that happens,
you'll be annoyed.

01:11:19.040 --> 01:11:24.680
When that happens, you're going to protest
and want the people to listen to you.

01:11:24.839 --> 01:11:28.839
When that happens,
you're going to want to eat our food.

01:11:29.000 --> 01:11:31.919
You won't care if our hands are dirty,

01:11:32.080 --> 01:11:34.360
or if we smell different from you.

01:11:34.519 --> 01:11:37.360
Because you don't know
what a life of freedom is.

01:11:37.519 --> 01:11:39.519
You don't know a free life.

01:11:39.680 --> 01:11:44.000
And here we are,
protesting for our indigenous peoples.

01:11:44.160 --> 01:11:48.519
- Juchari Uinapekua, comrades!
- Our strength!

01:11:58.680 --> 01:12:02.839
...with the president of the
Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation.

01:12:03.000 --> 01:12:07.279
We are in no position
to go against this mandate,

01:12:07.440 --> 01:12:10.480
as this is our final decision.

01:12:10.639 --> 01:12:13.400
We are going to be here
until they grant us an audience

01:12:13.559 --> 01:12:16.919
with the president of the
Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation.

01:12:17.080 --> 01:12:20.680
With no one else, comrades.
Only with the president. Come on!

01:12:20.879 --> 01:12:23.879
- Juchari Uinapekua!
- Our strength!

01:12:24.040 --> 01:12:27.239
We mean you gentlemen
in the Supreme Court.

01:12:40.879 --> 01:12:45.800
But as there's been a lot of activity,
They didn't attend us.

01:12:46.000 --> 01:12:47.839
They didn't want to attend to us.

01:12:48.000 --> 01:12:52.720
In some way,
there was aggression on their part.

01:12:53.440 --> 01:12:56.760
And obviously, we responded too.

01:12:57.680 --> 01:13:01.239
We didn't come to cause trouble,
we came to demand our rights.

01:13:01.440 --> 01:13:07.279
Some of our people from different
communities reacted by smashing the door,

01:13:07.959 --> 01:13:10.599
and they halted some people.

01:13:10.760 --> 01:13:15.040
Ultimately, they locked themselves in
with a chain.

01:13:19.319 --> 01:13:21.760
López Obrador,
look how you treat your people.

01:13:26.000 --> 01:13:28.319
- Come on, move it.
- Come on, asshole.

01:13:52.440 --> 01:13:54.879
They reached some agreements.

01:13:55.319 --> 01:14:01.279
Not definitive ones, but in support
of various indigenous communities.

01:14:12.519 --> 01:14:16.440
How does the village feel?
How do we all feel in the village?

01:14:16.599 --> 01:14:21.000
I say that the vast majority
feel good, happy,

01:14:21.160 --> 01:14:22.800
about achieving something

01:14:23.000 --> 01:14:25.160
we didn't think was possible.

01:14:25.319 --> 01:14:30.360
But the struggle and our efforts meant
we gained autonomy.

01:14:34.800 --> 01:14:38.400
Everything takes its time,
everything is a process.

01:14:38.639 --> 01:14:43.400
At least I see the change quite clearly.

01:14:52.599 --> 01:14:56.639
So it's progressing. When we were part
of the municipality of Erongarícuaro,

01:14:57.120 --> 01:15:01.160
and the president of the elected
municipal body dealt with us,

01:15:01.760 --> 01:15:05.760
sometimes there was one public work
a year, or two at most.

01:15:06.559 --> 01:15:10.879
And sometimes there were
none at all in a year.

01:15:11.599 --> 01:15:14.440
Today, a year has hardly gone by

01:15:15.040 --> 01:15:19.919
and three public works
are being carried out.

01:15:22.599 --> 01:15:24.959
I like to think that

01:15:24.959 --> 01:15:29.879
if one carries out a small act
for the community here,

01:15:29.879 --> 01:15:31.800
I think we can still make it.

01:15:47.959 --> 01:15:50.879
That's why I'm here in the nursery

01:15:53.120 --> 01:15:55.160
Our idea is

01:15:56.160 --> 01:15:58.919
to cultivate some green lungs
here in the community,

01:15:59.080 --> 01:16:00.639
in the ex-island of Jarácuaro.

01:16:01.440 --> 01:16:04.720
To see if water...

01:16:05.519 --> 01:16:07.199
will somehow come to us.

01:16:11.959 --> 01:16:15.919
If we take matters into our own hands,
I think that...

01:16:18.599 --> 01:16:23.559
we will go back to those times
when you could see fish there,

01:16:24.680 --> 01:16:26.239
swimming around.

01:16:44.239 --> 01:16:46.199
I think it's possible.

01:16:48.440 --> 01:16:51.120
The way it's going, I feel that

01:16:51.599 --> 01:16:58.760
in ten years,
there will be nothing left to fish.

01:17:01.319 --> 01:17:04.680
I don't know if the people will wake up

01:17:04.839 --> 01:17:07.839
and say
we're doing a lot of harm to the lake.

01:17:10.199 --> 01:17:13.839
I hope he can live the life I have,

01:17:14.000 --> 01:17:16.599
although not as a job, but just for fun.

01:17:17.319 --> 01:17:18.879
And that's it.

01:17:20.480 --> 01:17:24.839
so he can eat fish and catch it
just like i did