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The 25th is actually a milestone

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for the Brumadinho community as a whole,

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in all aspects of violation of rights,

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as a matter of fact.

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Shows how tiny we are

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within this whole system.

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I knew about the dams

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that surrounded us,

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but I never imagined myself living a situation

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as I have been living for 11 months.

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we don\'t know anymore

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what is our future.

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This siren kills a little piece of us

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every time we listen.

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Has mud passed in your backyard?

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Not. It passed in my soul.

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We live here with an invisible mud.

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Three years after the disaster that killed

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19 people in Mariana,

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a new tragedy punished Minas Gerais state.

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This time, the city of Brumadinho.

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An iron ore tailings dam

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of mining company Vale broke

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and a gigantic flood of mud

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destroyed everything in its path.

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I worked in Belo Horizonte,

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I had a work safety consultancy

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and did a real estate inspection.

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In 2016, I chose to live a healthier life.

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for me and my children.

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I already knew the region of Brumadinho

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and I chose here to continue the project

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\"Love Spreads\",

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which was solidary family farming.

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Here, we are arriving in a space

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that was a great partner of the project

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of family farming.

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Here was the space we used

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for producer exposure

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and there was also the restaurant

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operating in that container.

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We used to joke that it
was the tastiest container

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from Brumadinho.

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Every weekend there was
something going on

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in that space,

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which has become a space
for family get-togethers.

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So kids played, chatted

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residents with producers, and
it always turned into a party.

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Today, unfortunately, we are

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seeing all the work that
has been developed

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without any movement

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and without the joy
we had in this place,

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before the dam failure.

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Macacos face dam problems

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for many years.

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We have six dams that surround us

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without any structure of strategic exits,

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training the population to deal with

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this adversity.

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So it\'s a story that Macacos already live

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for a long time.

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And even today living 11 months

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with a level 3 dam,

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which is an imminent risk of dam failure,

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it hasn\'t happened yet.

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Brumadinho is an extensive municipality

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and that lived from mining, in its
surroundings, already historical,

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but also family farming,

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creations of small rural neighborhoods,

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of any tourist activity.

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When this dam on the
Corrego de Feijao bursts,

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it affects, first of all,
the workers of the companies

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that everyone knows they
met their death, right?

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But all these rural dwellers,

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of these neighborhoods

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who had their lives made unfeasible,

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are having their life unfeasible

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by the mud, right?

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And the consequences

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of this ongoing disaster.

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The 25th itself

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we started to follow and understand

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the proportion of what was happening

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in a part of the municipality

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through what was on television.

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One of the first images that
came out in the media

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was this snippet.

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This is Alberto Flores,
who is the only link

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from the interior of Brumadinho
with the headquarters.

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Where are those trucks and the tents

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it was a huge vegetable garden.

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Today...

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the change was complete.

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We stayed about four months

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isolated from the
Brumadinho headquarters,

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because the mud cut
the county in half.

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It was a trickle of suffering.

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We discovered a new name every day

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known,

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and every day we lost a little more

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the hopes of, yes
it really is possible

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to find someone alive.

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Here is a stretch of the Paraopeba river,

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is a place that every 25th

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pay tribute to the victims

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and a point that, at the beginning,
was one of expectation

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of seeing someone who came with the
mud and being able to be saved.

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Or even recover bodies

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that could have reached
that part of the river.

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After that first moment of discovery

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of everything that was happening,

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as it\'s inland, i\'m 23 km away

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from the trajectory of the mud,
and I started to look for

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help, information.

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And the question was if the
mud passed in your yard.

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Not.

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It destroyed my dreams,

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it destroyed my life project,

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it destroyed my bonds of
friendship that were gone.

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It destroyed my future
perspective for me

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and for my children.

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It completely changed my routine.

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So it passed was in my soul.

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Our job has been to document,

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record these situations of violation of rights,

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which are the suffering caused

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to those communities that are obliged

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to live with this mining,

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who should be considered hit,

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because their livelihood is completely damaged.

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But that, due to a bureaucratic definition,

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within a logic of business profitability,

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are not considered affected.

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I think that hit is everyone who had

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their routine, their dreams, their lives altered,

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somehow,

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due to the failure of a dam.

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So there are different levels

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that must be analyzed

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but that everyone should be seen as affected.

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Macacos got a flow before

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of 3 thousand tourists over the weekend.

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We always had full bars,

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the full restaurants,

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full inns.

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With the rupture of the Brumadinho dam,

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we already started to feel

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a little reticence from people to be

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near any dam

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in the state of Minas Gerais.

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On a rainy Saturday night,

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we start to hear the siren ringing.

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Which is deafening.

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I started knocking on wood,

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insistently shouting:

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\"Everybody out! Everybody out!

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Get out! Get out of here!

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Folks, for God\'s sake! Dam!

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Dam!\".

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And the people left the bungalows,

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all desperate, some wrapped in a towel.

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The only concern I had

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was to get my guests out of here.

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Without any preparation, without any warning,

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with no escape route,

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without us knowing what was happening,

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nor what dam they were referring to,

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so that I can at least get a sense

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of how to lead my guests,

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how to lead me, right?

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If I would go out, if I was in a safe area,

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if I wasn\'t.

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This siren I started to live with, because

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several nights i woke up to it playing

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In my head.

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And the lives of these people

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is a life under fear,

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in constant agony, the
waiting, the uncertainty

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that that will happen there

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and that they will have to
somehow save themselves.

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And there in front there was a point

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where we can have visibility

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of the B3 and B4 dam,

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that, on the 16th of February,

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went up to risk 2,

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with the sound of the first siren,

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and, on March 27, it went to level 3,

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which is the imminent
risk of dam failure.

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It\'s my first time here, right?

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That I go up here and I have a notion

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of the dimension of the damage

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that mining does to the environment.

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A mud that drove our tourists away,

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ended the main economic activity

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of Macacos,

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it ended with the peace of the people,
with the dream, with the project.

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Only those who live have
an idea of ​​what it is

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to live in the shadow
of invisible mud.

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Another weekend of great apprehension.

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This time the siren of a dam

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took the residents out of the house

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of Sao Sebastiao das Aguas Claras,

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district of Nova Lima,
which is known as Macacos.

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If we had trained,

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if we had been warned,

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we wouldn\'t have gone into that panic

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that was generated.

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The area that would receive
the tailings from B3 and B4

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is minimal, within Macacos.

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February 16th is a milestone

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in my life, as a businesswoman,

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as a person, as a citizen.

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There is an Isa who lived
until the 16th of February

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and there is an Isa who was born
on the 16th of February.

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A little before we understand

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the whole proportion, I said:
\"Wow, I need to do something,

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we are dying here in Piedade

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and we are abandoned\".

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Betania?

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Hey Fernanda!

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-How are you?
-I\'m fine and you?

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Everything is good?

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And we created, on the 14th of February,

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the Popular Committee of
the Rural Area of ​​Brumadinho,

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in order to bring some
improvement to this region.

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Do you know, on average, how many kilos

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have you already lost of organic tilapia?

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I\'ve lost over 12,000 kilos of fish

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from January 2019

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to January 2020.

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My water comes from

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a potable mine, even I use it for drinking.

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My neighbors come to get water to drink here.

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I am above the mud meeting the river,

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approximately 5 km.

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From where started the mud, the dam,

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I\'m 18 km away, approx.

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And yet, you explaining all this...

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Even though I explain all this I can\'t.

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Don\'t trade?

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Have you tried any contact
talking about this situation,

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the need for feed, something like that?

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Several times, I tried. At first...

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We made a proposal

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together with the Federal Prosecutor\'s Office,

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State Prosecutor\'s Office

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and State Public Defender\'s Office,

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a proposed agreement.

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And since then, we\'ve been trying,

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with the institutions of justice,

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that something happened,

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to improve not only agriculture,

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But tourism, right? That englobes

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the inns and shops of Brumadinho.

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The damage repair system

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by the mining disaster

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is something that should involve the population

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directly hit,

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experts, etc.,

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but companies shouldn\'t be

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dictating the rules of repair.

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This greatly compromises justice.

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It is impossible for you to have
justice if the one who did the damage

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is the same that is conducting
the repair process.

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I had to lay off my employees

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that depended on the income

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than the inn offered to them

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to be able to survive.

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I had to fight.

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And the quarrelsome Isa got sick.

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Very very very much.

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There were days when the quarrelsome
Isa didn\'t want to live anymore.

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At one point I turned around and said:

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or i find another way to be able

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to assert my rights and the rights I believe

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that the community has

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or I won\'t handle it anymore.

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So I stopped, I said like this:

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\"There\'s the Trade Association.

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Let\'s all hold hands now

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and go out promoting something.\"

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And that\'s when things started to happen.

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Francisco is the president
of the Commercial Association

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from here in Macacos.

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He takes care...

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Good Morning!

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He takes care of the claims of commerce,

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with Vale, the Public Prosecutor\'s Office

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and the entities to which we need

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be in a relationship during this period.

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Today, in Macacos, there are seven territories

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determined by the Public Prosecutor\'s Office,

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where regular meetings are held

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to be able to adjust what the population

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and businessmen expect

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and what can and cannot be done

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by the mining company, by Vale.

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There is a lack of information

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and, above all, participation

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of the effective local population

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in deciding the fate of their lives

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and from that locality.

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Because the population does not have,
in fact, decision-making power.

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They say \"no\", but that
\"no\" falls into a void.

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-Hey!
-Hi, come in.

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-What\'s up, Sonia?
-Hey, what\'s up?

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When asked today:

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\"Fernanda, what do you do?\"

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I say: \"Look, before the 25th,
I was a social entrepreneur,

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farmer, administrative assistant,

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besides mother.

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Today I am an activist, human rights defender,

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against mining.

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I started to realize that the fight

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was not against a company,

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but it is a mining system that
operates today in the state.

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How\'s the marketing going, Sonia?

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Weak.

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We cannot deny that the
product is from Brumadinho.

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We don\'t omit that either,

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because I think we need to

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keep stating that our product has quality

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and that it is not contaminated.

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There are a lot of people who don\'t
even go there to buy anymore.

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-Until today?
-Until today.

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People have to persevere.

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If we stop taking our vegetables,

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we will be signing our death certificate.

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Do you miss our Feira Movimento,

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this movement that we had there?

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For the love of God! Missing too much.

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You start defending yours,

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your neighbor, your neighbor\'s neighbor,

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and when you realize, you\'re defending

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an entire community,

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regarding their basic rights,

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which is the right to clean water,
the right to life, dignity,

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right to the future,

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healthy environment, information,

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right to full compensation for damages.

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There are so many rights
that we end up forgetting,

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but they exist.

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We cannot exempt the state from liability

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in the event of these disruptions,
of these disasters.

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Obviously the responsibilities
of companies is evident,

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but accountability, in my view,

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of the technical bodies, both
for environmental licensing,

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and monitoring, they should occur too,

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and they are not happening

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as much as the disaster, the cases demand.

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Mining, as it operates

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in the country today, in the state,

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it doesn\'t just take lives.

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It takes a person\'s soul.

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It takes away what\'s untouchable, you know?

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The dream.

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This is priceless.

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We urgently need to adopt

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sustainable practices for this planet

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who is screaming in pain,

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for these people who are screaming in pain.

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It\'s there.

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Profit above all, above everyone.

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The fact that we have the ore

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doesn\'t mean we have to explore it

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totally, right?

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Even because the benefits that this
economic exploitation generates

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does not generate for the population
of Minas Gerais state.

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What remains for the population is

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the burden of extractive activity, right?

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It is the degradation of the environment,

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the water scarcity that it
jeopardizes, in fact,

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throughout its production and
now also in transport.

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It is the damage to the
health of the population,

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people\'s lives are at risk.

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The diversification of the economic matrix

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is also a sign of wealth and intelligence.

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Tourist never had to leave here.

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This dam that is on level 3

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really hits Macacos,

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but reaches a territory that is evacuated

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since the 16th of February,

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which is monitored 24 hours a day.

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98% of the village is alive
and needs tourists here.

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Macacos were not buried in the mud.

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We live here with an invisible mud,

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with a mud that kills us

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for lack of justice, for lack of understanding,

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for lack of tourist

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and for lack of love for others.

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Last January 25th,

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I received a letter from Duda, from Sao Paulo.

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\"Dear ones from Minas Gerais state,
it\'s been a long time,

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but we are always here thinking of you.

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I hope this letter helps to give you

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more light and hope.

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We will remain strong.

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I know you may have harder days than others,

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but we are always here.

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Whenever you feel powerless,

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take this letter and remember:

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you gain strength, courage and confidence

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through each experience

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where you really stop and
stare fear in the face.\"

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And that\'s what we brumadinenses are doing

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in relation to this crime that
devastated the entire municipality.

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Around 3.5 million Brazilians live in cities
where the dams at risk of collapsing are located.

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In Minas Gerais, at least 50 tailings dams are considered high risk.
The National Mining Agency admits to operate with only one third of
the technicians needed to supervise the damns.