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Take off your shirt.

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For you, to pray.

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Give it back to me afterwards.

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I ask you, great spirit,

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father, universal mother,

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great Pachacama, great Pachamamita,

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that you carry us through this struggle.

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May you,

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guardians of these mountains,

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guide this matter, this body.

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Once again,

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I give myself to you, Mother Earth,

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to you, Mamayacu,

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to you, comrades,

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so that Mother Earth

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and her infinite intelligence

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may guide our actions
through this struggle and resistance.

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Hello?

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Compi?

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Hello?

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We\'re on the road, on the way there.

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We\'re still far away,
we\'re taking it easy.

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The mine destroys the way of life,

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our worldview, the way we live,

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the way we relate to the land, to life,

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to water, to our income,

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to our livelihoods.

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Then my other brother calls my mom.

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She says he should tell
his other brother too,

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to get him to support
the people in the struggle.

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Since he has no wife and no children,

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he can support the cause.

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Shit, they\'re coming. Record it.

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Record it.

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Shit, we have to warn our comrades.

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Buddy, the tank is on its way to you.

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It just passed the second checkpoint.

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Yes, hurry.

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Look, the police on their way with a tank.

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We\'re here in Río Blanco,

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the police are coming in
to attack the people.

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Right here and now in Río Blanco,
San Pedro de Yumate,

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here come the police to attack the people.

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We\'re shooting this video to warn you all.

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Step on it.
- There\'s more behind us.

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Step on it.
- There\'s more police behind us.

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Film everything.

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They\'re overtaking us.

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Step on it, brother.
- We\'ll let them by.

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No, we have to go.

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What do we do? Drive in?
- Drive in.

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We can see all the police arriving.
Look at all the police.

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Get down with the camera.

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What should I do about the car?

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I\'m from the Ombudsman Council.

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What\'s wrong?
Mr. Prosecutor, what\'s wrong with them?

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Carlos, Andrés, what\'s wrong with them?

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What\'s wrong with you, officers?

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Hey, don\'t hit me.

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I\'m from the Ombudsman\'s Office.

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Sir, I\'m from the council.

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They\'re taking away my phone.

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What\'s going on, sir?

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What\'s going on?

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I\'m not doing anything.

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Let him go!

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Free him!

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Leave him alone!

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Women, comrades!

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Come back, Paul. Stay here.

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Let him go!

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Free him!
- Leave him alone!

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Do it!

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Shit, get down, the gas...

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Let\'s go this way.

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Get in the cars.

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Come on, buddy.

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That way.

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What\'s going on with them?

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Yeah, I know...

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Look at how...

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Hello.

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How\'s it going?

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They immediately attacked me,
they beat me to the floor,

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they hit me,

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they took my glasses,
they took my phone and broke it,

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which I hope is totally broken

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because I\'m worried
about the information I had on it,

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relating to the struggle, all my contacts,

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photos and videos
of the struggle and the resistance.

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The police and military
don\'t want to talk.

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They tried to change the whole story.

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The prosecutor and the colonel.

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Because they consider us to be...

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They call us criminals.

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They criminalize us,
call us criminal guerrilla fighters.

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We\'re standing up for our rights,

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but they say we\'re criminals.

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They just said we\'re thieves.

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The police said it. I heard it.

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Why are they calling us thieves?

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To our police,
we\'re not comrades, we\'re thieves.

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This is our land.

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We\'re claiming our rights,
and they call us thieves.

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With all their supposed right,

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they call us criminals and terrorists.

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We are being persecuted
because we are \"terrorists\".

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The reality is that
we\'re defending our rights.

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The confrontation
the comrades find themselves in

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is down to indignation.

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It has been several years
since the Ecuadorian state

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has unjustly begun
to hand over land to other.

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China is currently
the largest beneficiary.

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It has caused problems
in all parts of the country.

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There have been imprisonments,
deaths, persecution.

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Around 38 percent of the province
is currently under concession.

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Unfortunately,
more documentation is needed,

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because in this area,
in Molleturo and Chaucha,

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there is not only gold
but other minerals such as uranium.

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We want to ensure these minerals
stay in the earth too.

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But if we let them
turn Molleturo into mining camps,

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all the future will bring us
is death and disease.

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That\'s the cause I\'m fighting for.

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Some of you are armed.

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Are you prepared to use these weapons?

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Yes.

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It would take the conflict
to another level.

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They don\'t listen,
it\'s what we have to do.

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Do you think that will happen?

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If they don\'t leave, yes.

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The truth is dangerous
for the powers that be.

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When a journalist takes on this task

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and follows their passion
to investigate and publish stories,

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they will always encounter
the powers that be.

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They always appear
and try to silence them.

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I had about 20 safe houses
to go into hiding.

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One time they had me confined to silence,

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to darkness.

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I couldn\'t move more
than two or three meters,

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or go close to any of the windows

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because I knew they were behind them.

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But the opposite was true.

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They were wrong.

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I discovered,

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during that time of pain,

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a way of flipping the story around
and telling it differently.

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I found an envelope at home

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containing documents and a memo.

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I opened my email and found information.

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People on the inside
were giving me the information.

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Truly spectacular information,
more than 4,000 documents.

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Coffee?

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Here we go, you can sit there.

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I\'ll go make a coffee.

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There\'s no password, right?

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You have to do everything yourself.

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What\'s the folder called?

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\"External debt China\".

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It\'s good, it\'s not Chinese coffee.

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Ecuadorian coffee.

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Right...

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These are all contracts?
- Yes, they\'re all contracts.

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Look here.

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Another Excel sheet

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with all the information and folders here.

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2014. Take a look at this.

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2015, 2013, 2012, 2014.

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All the data right here,

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ten years\' worth of government debt.

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Then you have interest, commission...

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All the losses from oil trading.

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You basically have a whole chain
of black holes of losses.

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It\'s a crazy web. It\'s huge.

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We\'re screwed.

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The country has screwed itself over.

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We\'re talking about 2009 to 2017.

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Correa\'s government
received from China and Thailand

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around 18.2 billion dollars.

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Approximately.

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That\'s 18.2 billion dollars

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with interest rates
ranging from 7 to 8.25 percent.

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All these credit lines,
some of which are disguised as pre-sales,

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are repaid in the form
of crude and fuel oil.

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Sixteen contracts have been signed

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for the supply of crude and fuel oil

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for a volume of 1.2 billion barrels

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until 2024.

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In all of these credit lines,

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there are two components:
tranches A and B.

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If the credit line is 1 billion dollars,

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tranche A, let\'s say 800 million dollars,

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goes to the Treasury,
the Ministry of Finance.

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The other 200 million
never comes near the country.

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The Chinese keep that
in Chinese bank accounts.

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Then they use it
to force us to sign contracts.

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Correa was on his knees in Beijing,

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he made Ecuador kneel down
before the Asian dragon,

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and sign contracts

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with Chinese companies
to provide services:

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telecommunications services,

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oil companies,

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road construction,

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building construction,

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IT companies.

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I realized that behind
these credit lines...

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The credit lines
are the long bridge, the highway

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over which all the other
contracts have passed.

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This is very important.

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The credit lines are the big umbrella,

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the great bridge from China to Ecuador.

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China, an age-old power,

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is now a fundamental partner for Ecuador

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in the development
and financing of major projects.

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Even more so
during this sensitive time for the country

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due to the fall in global oil prices.

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China is a strategic partner
in our transformation process

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that will change forever our country\'s
production and energy networks.

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We\'re basically being plundered.

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There are no words.

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There are no words
to describe this tragedy.

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They have control
of the natural resources.

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China took control
of the natural resources.

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They control the hydroelectric plants,

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they control the oil,
a large part of mining,

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and they control political power.

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We\'ve been colonized.

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Again.

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Attention, comrades. Please.

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Comrade Paul.

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Paul Jarrín, representative
of the peoples of the South.

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Comrades, we are at war.

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We are witnessing
a transnational war against life.

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Mining is only possible

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if people have their land taken from them.

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The people are stripped
of their culture and their community.

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The war we are witnessing in Río Blanco

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is being fought
in Mexico, in Peru, in Colombia,

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in all the villages of Abya Yala.

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Our continent is not called America.

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America is a name that was
imposed upon us 500 years ago.

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We have a history
of more than 15,000 years.

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A history full of science.

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A history full of wisdom.

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They\'ve taken control of the camp?
- Yes.

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Nice. At last.

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That\'s it, get in.

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They\'re already in Miguir.

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And a truck is coming
with about 40 to 50 more policemen.

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Here we go.

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There we go, comrades.

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We are now heading towards Río Blanco.

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Behind us...

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our comrades are following us,

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but there\'s a motorbike and other vehicles

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that we don\'t know where they came from.

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Get out.

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We speak as the people.

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You have made
many people in the town angry,

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and for the people there is no law.

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Let me tell you that.

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It is a peaceful march.

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We are peaceful.

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But they\'ve called for reinforcements.

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300 soldiers are on their way.

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I\'m from Miguir.

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Reinforcements are on the way.

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They are there to keep order,
not to mistreat citizens.

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Yes to water! No to the mine!

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No to the mine!

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We are ready to die!

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We won\'t let them mine
in the Cajas mountains,

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and contaminate the water we all drink.

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Long live water!

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Long live the Cajas!

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Why is he hiding from us?

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Watch out! Watch out!

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Run!

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Don\'t shoot at the people!

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Don\'t shoot!

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Paul, what\'s going on here?

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The Río Blanco communities
have been fighting for months, years,

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for water and for life.

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In recent months, 330 tons of gold
and silver have been extracted here.

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Today, the people,
exercising their legitimate right to life,

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their legitimate right to water
and to live in a place of peace,

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have told the Chinese mining companies

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to leave their land, to go away,

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to let them live healthily and in peace.

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We just witnessed how the police

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defend the economic interests
of Chinese mining companies.

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Don\'t shoot! There are children and women!

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I have a lot of respect
for what Paul thinks.

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I always wanted him to be different...

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but he thinks very differently.

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He wants to save the world.

00:34:05.080 --> 00:34:10.480
He\'s already way more different
than I wanted him to be.

00:34:10.640 --> 00:34:14.000
I respect what he wants, I have to.

00:34:14.160 --> 00:34:16.680
That\'s my way of supporting him.

00:34:16.840 --> 00:34:20.480
I\'m very afraid
of everything he\'s got involved in.

00:34:20.640 --> 00:34:23.680
I always tell him that I\'m scared.

00:34:24.360 --> 00:34:26.240
And he tells me...

00:34:26.400 --> 00:34:29.040
I always tell him, \"I love you.\"

00:34:29.200 --> 00:34:34.280
Then he says, \"If you love me,
you have to support me. In everything.

00:34:34.920 --> 00:34:37.400
If it\'s my fight, it\'s your fight too.\"

00:34:45.880 --> 00:34:48.600
We were talking with a friend,

00:34:48.760 --> 00:34:52.960
and I said to her, \"When I die,
I\'m going to be cremated.\"

00:34:53.120 --> 00:34:56.360
She asked why,
I said, \"Because I want to be free.\"

00:34:56.520 --> 00:35:00.400
I said, \"But don\'t throw me in the river
because I\'m scared...\"

00:35:00.560 --> 00:35:02.240
Then Paul arrives.

00:35:02.400 --> 00:35:07.720
I say, \"Son, if you die,
what should we do with you?\"

00:35:11.800 --> 00:35:15.400
And he says,
\"Do you think you\'ll find me?\"

00:35:16.800 --> 00:35:18.120
That\'s what he said.

00:35:18.280 --> 00:35:21.680
And I said, \"Of course, why not?\"

00:35:21.840 --> 00:35:24.800
He said, \"No. You won\'t find me.

00:35:24.960 --> 00:35:30.840
But if you do, take me to the Cajas
and throw me into a lagoon.\"

00:37:16.560 --> 00:37:17.800
I told my mother,

00:37:19.640 --> 00:37:21.280
\"If you find me,

00:37:23.400 --> 00:37:27.400
all I ask is that you bring me
here to the Cajas.\"

00:37:30.880 --> 00:37:32.240
To a lagoon.

00:37:34.280 --> 00:37:36.120
It could be the Patoquimas,

00:37:36.880 --> 00:37:39.720
a lagoon I\'ve been to many times.

00:37:40.440 --> 00:37:42.840
I often go to the lagoon alone,

00:37:43.240 --> 00:37:45.400
at dawn.

00:37:45.960 --> 00:37:50.280
I stand there facing the lagoon
and I talk to it.

00:37:52.400 --> 00:37:54.160
I talk and listen to it.

00:37:54.320 --> 00:37:55.920
I listen to it,

00:37:56.080 --> 00:37:57.560
I embrace it.

00:37:58.160 --> 00:37:59.960
I love that lagoon.

00:38:00.680 --> 00:38:04.040
It\'s interesting because
if you go with other people,

00:38:04.680 --> 00:38:06.480
it\'s kind of silent.

00:38:06.640 --> 00:38:09.920
But when you go alone,
it\'s like a concert.

00:38:10.080 --> 00:38:12.800
Sounds everywhere, the animals, the birds,

00:38:12.960 --> 00:38:15.280
everything is just alive.

00:38:18.000 --> 00:38:20.200
So, if my mom

00:38:23.520 --> 00:38:26.880
has to cry before the time has come,

00:38:28.480 --> 00:38:30.320
then let her tears

00:38:32.200 --> 00:38:34.280
feed the lagoon

00:38:35.360 --> 00:38:37.040
where I would like to...

00:38:39.960 --> 00:38:42.400
rest and follow the path,

00:38:42.560 --> 00:38:44.040
follow the spiral.

00:40:22.480 --> 00:40:25.600
When we started reporting on it,

00:40:26.600 --> 00:40:32.320
when I started working on my book
\"Ecuador Made in China\" in 2012,

00:40:33.600 --> 00:40:38.560
and I had published a series of reports

00:40:39.120 --> 00:40:40.800
nationally

00:40:41.760 --> 00:40:42.760
and...

00:40:43.760 --> 00:40:45.080
with Reuters,

00:40:46.200 --> 00:40:48.080
with fellow journalists in New York,

00:40:49.120 --> 00:40:52.640
about the presence
of Chinese capital in Ecuador,

00:40:53.920 --> 00:40:57.840
that\'s when the government realized
how much information I had,

00:40:59.440 --> 00:41:02.800
and it started to worry them.

00:41:09.800 --> 00:41:11.640
Open the door, sir.

00:41:26.440 --> 00:41:29.080
My wife and I were both semi-naked.

00:41:30.200 --> 00:41:33.280
And the police made us...

00:41:33.880 --> 00:41:37.920
They made my wife get dressed
in front of an armed police officer.

00:41:42.040 --> 00:41:46.200
My little son,
who was screaming in despair,

00:41:46.360 --> 00:41:49.280
was one year and two months old.

00:41:54.400 --> 00:41:59.360
It was a whole new level
of brutal paranoia.

00:42:00.440 --> 00:42:03.560
They accused me of having hacked

00:42:03.720 --> 00:42:08.600
into the accounts and emails
of the presidency of the Republic

00:42:09.480 --> 00:42:12.800
and of having published
confidential information,

00:42:12.960 --> 00:42:15.920
while Correa is simultaneously suing me

00:42:16.080 --> 00:42:17.560
to drive me to bankruptcy.

00:42:18.680 --> 00:42:21.760
I had to pay 48,000 dollars to Correa,

00:42:21.920 --> 00:42:23.560
which I didn\'t have.

00:42:24.960 --> 00:42:28.360
They declared me bankrupt
and took away my civil rights.

00:42:28.520 --> 00:42:31.520
I had no rights.
It was a civil assassination.

00:42:32.520 --> 00:42:37.520
They came here
with a court order to take all this.

00:42:39.400 --> 00:42:43.040
They came to take the TV, the computer,

00:42:43.200 --> 00:42:45.480
the furniture, the beds,

00:42:46.600 --> 00:42:48.840
the refrigerator, the kitchen,

00:42:49.000 --> 00:42:50.560
everything I have.

00:42:51.280 --> 00:42:53.600
The warrant also included

00:42:53.760 --> 00:42:55.520
\"all the data

00:42:57.040 --> 00:42:58.520
and the books.\"

00:42:59.920 --> 00:43:04.960
That included my books in any bookshops.

00:43:05.760 --> 00:43:09.040
They seized my bank account.
I only had one.

00:43:09.200 --> 00:43:11.000
I had no money.

00:43:13.400 --> 00:43:16.240
A friend who works in intelligence

00:43:19.120 --> 00:43:20.400
told us,

00:43:22.000 --> 00:43:24.040
\"Fernando, you have to leave.

00:43:27.040 --> 00:43:30.760
Correa, \"Correism\",
is going to win the election.

00:43:31.240 --> 00:43:33.040
They\'ve got it all set up.

00:43:35.080 --> 00:43:36.720
Your life is in danger.\"

00:43:40.960 --> 00:43:43.040
That night, I left my house.

00:45:25.560 --> 00:45:27.560
If Sarayaku

00:45:27.720 --> 00:45:32.760
decided to open the doors to you,
it was because Sarayaku

00:45:32.920 --> 00:45:35.840
saw the future
and what was going to happen.

00:45:36.000 --> 00:45:39.160
It saw the threats on the horizon.

00:45:40.080 --> 00:45:43.120
Now the threats
are coming from all directions.

00:45:44.920 --> 00:45:47.720
The current situation...

00:45:49.640 --> 00:45:52.720
It\'s an international court sentence,

00:45:52.880 --> 00:45:56.760
but the government won\'t comply with it.

00:45:56.920 --> 00:46:01.000
I\'m not optimistic

00:46:01.160 --> 00:46:06.680
that the government will agree
to guarantee our lives, our security,

00:46:06.840 --> 00:46:11.800
or that it will treat Ecuadorian citizens
the way it should.

00:46:11.960 --> 00:46:13.600
I\'m not convinced.

00:46:14.280 --> 00:46:18.320
Secondly, this is unfolding
on a huge political stage.

00:46:19.320 --> 00:46:21.560
It\'s a huge issue we\'re involved in.

00:46:23.760 --> 00:46:25.600
He wants our heads.

00:46:26.280 --> 00:46:29.440
He wants our head
so he can take us to jail and then say,

00:46:29.600 --> 00:46:31.400
\"I am the king.\"

00:46:31.560 --> 00:46:33.240
You walk out of here,

00:46:33.400 --> 00:46:36.440
one step into Shell, Quito,
or anywhere in the country,

00:46:36.600 --> 00:46:38.520
you\'re in there.

00:46:38.680 --> 00:46:40.960
There are no guarantees of rights.

00:46:42.080 --> 00:46:43.920
Look at the government\'s speeches.

00:46:44.080 --> 00:46:50.520
Analyze anything
he has said about your issue.

00:46:50.680 --> 00:46:52.920
Those are the words of a dictator.

00:46:53.080 --> 00:46:57.120
The government wants
to cover up everything

00:46:58.160 --> 00:46:59.760
that you\'ve denounced.

00:47:25.360 --> 00:47:27.640
I\'ve been persecuted for five months.

00:47:27.800 --> 00:47:30.880
I personally have been persecuted
for five months.

00:47:31.440 --> 00:47:35.680
Since the night of December 26, at 11 p.m.

00:47:35.840 --> 00:47:38.840
when a squad of androids,

00:47:39.000 --> 00:47:41.440
with all due respect to androids,

00:47:42.200 --> 00:47:43.400
robots

00:47:44.120 --> 00:47:47.800
with machine guns and rifles,
entered my house.

00:47:47.960 --> 00:47:49.480
Thirty people.

00:47:50.200 --> 00:47:52.200
Twelve men from the special unit.

00:47:53.120 --> 00:47:55.560
And they panicked my children, my wife.

00:47:56.400 --> 00:48:00.040
I left my house that night
and I have not returned since.

00:48:06.640 --> 00:48:10.880
There was talk every day
of them sending in paratroopers.

00:48:11.040 --> 00:48:13.080
Correa was ready for anything.

00:48:13.880 --> 00:48:17.240
He asked them for two WIO warriors
to accompany me.

00:48:17.400 --> 00:48:20.200
They came up to the square with us,

00:48:20.360 --> 00:48:23.280
and the helicopter
was circling over my head.

00:49:03.680 --> 00:49:04.840
We\'ve come to...

00:49:06.520 --> 00:49:09.680
discuss some very serious issues and...

00:49:11.240 --> 00:49:14.000
they\'re going to be a bit painful.

00:49:16.720 --> 00:49:20.720
The overview first
at the national level is...

00:49:22.400 --> 00:49:25.160
The government is not giving in.

00:49:26.360 --> 00:49:31.880
A confrontation would mean
men from both sides dying.

00:49:32.480 --> 00:49:35.480
It would be terrible...

00:50:11.120 --> 00:50:15.880
So we made a decision,
and discussed it with the WIOS.

00:50:17.280 --> 00:50:19.720
The decision is to leave.

00:50:23.320 --> 00:50:25.680
If they arrested me, I was dead.

00:50:26.400 --> 00:50:28.480
So we had to choose.

00:50:28.640 --> 00:50:30.960
Free or dead. Period.

00:50:40.240 --> 00:50:42.840
We set off on foot.

00:50:43.880 --> 00:50:46.520
Two in the afternoon, through the jungle,

00:50:46.680 --> 00:50:49.440
to avoid the police cordons.

00:50:50.240 --> 00:50:53.360
And thanks to the people
of Sarayaku, I\'m still alive.

00:51:30.880 --> 00:51:35.000
A week or 15 days later,
I left for Washington.

00:51:35.160 --> 00:51:37.680
I had a serious job offer.

00:51:37.840 --> 00:51:40.320
I had guaranteed political asylum.

00:51:40.480 --> 00:51:43.560
I had talked to people
in the state department,

00:51:43.720 --> 00:51:45.000
to senators.

00:51:46.080 --> 00:51:47.800
The case...

00:51:47.960 --> 00:51:49.480
became a big deal.

00:51:49.640 --> 00:51:53.560
Many US and international
human rights organizations

00:51:53.720 --> 00:51:55.760
reacted very sympathetically.

00:51:57.640 --> 00:52:01.000
I had the option of staying in the US.

00:52:02.880 --> 00:52:06.520
Then I thought of Clever Jiménez,

00:52:06.680 --> 00:52:09.160
and my colleagues who were in Ecuador.

00:52:09.840 --> 00:52:12.120
They were going to be imprisoned.

00:52:13.120 --> 00:52:14.840
That was a certainty.

00:52:16.280 --> 00:52:20.480
So I spoke to my wife, to my family,

00:52:20.640 --> 00:52:23.600
and told them I had decided to return.

00:52:25.200 --> 00:52:28.920
I called a colleague
from \"El País\" in Spain,

00:52:29.640 --> 00:52:31.400
who I met in Washington.

00:52:31.560 --> 00:52:33.640
And I told her, \"Look,

00:52:33.800 --> 00:52:37.000
I\'m returning to my country
with an arrest warrant.\"

00:52:37.160 --> 00:52:39.120
She said, \"You\'re crazy.\"

00:52:40.000 --> 00:52:43.480
\"How can you do that?\"
I said, \"I\'m crazy.

00:52:44.280 --> 00:52:45.800
But can you publish it

00:52:47.320 --> 00:52:50.160
in tomorrow\'s \"El País\" in Spain:

00:52:51.240 --> 00:52:54.800
\'Journalist with arrest warrant
returns to Ecuador\'?\"

00:52:55.920 --> 00:52:58.000
She said, \"It\'s the least I can do.\"

00:52:58.160 --> 00:52:59.880
She wrote a long article,

00:53:00.040 --> 00:53:03.960
it made the front page of \"El País\",
if I remember correctly.

00:53:23.800 --> 00:53:25.560
Rafael!

00:53:25.720 --> 00:53:28.280
Rafael!

00:54:33.120 --> 00:54:35.600
What about the internal administration?

00:54:36.200 --> 00:54:37.800
How has it been restructured?

00:54:37.960 --> 00:54:42.040
We asked those four or five questions
about the state from the outset.

00:54:42.200 --> 00:54:44.640
As we were answering these questions,

00:54:44.800 --> 00:54:50.600
we were finding out
why we\'re here talking about this.

00:54:52.320 --> 00:54:55.320
Wherever I asked questions, the answers...

00:54:57.360 --> 00:54:59.000
were these.

00:54:59.160 --> 00:55:01.320
Here are the contracts.

00:55:04.680 --> 00:55:08.880
This contract worth 600 million dollars,

00:55:12.200 --> 00:55:17.800
stipulated the supply
of 122 million barrels.

00:55:19.840 --> 00:55:24.680
So, if you multiply by 120...

00:55:25.200 --> 00:55:30.880
you multiply the value of the oil
by 122 million barrels...

00:55:31.040 --> 00:55:33.480
it covers it ten times over.

00:55:34.480 --> 00:55:38.160
I guarantee you
we would supply ten times the oil

00:55:38.320 --> 00:55:40.720
that is needed to repay the loan.

00:55:43.400 --> 00:55:47.040
We wanted to find arguments or reasons

00:55:48.040 --> 00:55:50.800
that would allow us to get out of this.

00:55:50.960 --> 00:55:52.840
When I say \"us\",

00:55:53.000 --> 00:55:54.600
I mean the country.

00:55:55.120 --> 00:55:59.360
That the country could
get out of these commitments.

00:56:01.440 --> 00:56:03.480
And in fact,

00:56:03.640 --> 00:56:08.840
a team of people,
including the general manager,

00:56:09.000 --> 00:56:10.640
traveled to Houston,

00:56:11.280 --> 00:56:16.400
where we had some very tense meetings

00:56:17.040 --> 00:56:21.920
with people from PetroChina and Unipec.

00:56:24.200 --> 00:56:28.080
Very tense because we knew
our stance from the beginning.

00:56:29.000 --> 00:56:31.400
And they knew our stance.

00:56:31.560 --> 00:56:35.520
Namely, that these contracts
are bad for the country.

00:56:35.680 --> 00:56:38.120
You, the Chinese,

00:56:38.280 --> 00:56:41.680
are benefiting from this.

00:56:42.720 --> 00:56:44.240
Excessively so.

00:56:44.400 --> 00:56:47.600
Sure, the buyer should benefit.

00:56:47.760 --> 00:56:50.400
But not as disproportionately as this.

00:56:50.560 --> 00:56:53.880
You have a profit margin, of course.

00:56:54.040 --> 00:56:56.120
It wouldn\'t be a business otherwise.

00:56:56.880 --> 00:57:02.000
But to commit ten times Ecuadorian crude
at such outrageous prices,

00:57:02.160 --> 00:57:04.360
hey, something\'s wrong with you.

00:57:04.520 --> 00:57:07.320
And that\'s what we went to tell them.

00:57:09.080 --> 00:57:12.440
We sat them in front of us
and we told them.

00:57:15.600 --> 00:57:19.120
And they said, \"There\'s a contract.\"

00:57:20.920 --> 00:57:23.760
We informed the government about this

00:57:24.560 --> 00:57:29.400
and we told the Chinese representatives
from PetroChina and Unipec,

00:57:29.560 --> 00:57:32.720
\"Gentlemen, we are going to pay you.\"

00:57:34.920 --> 00:57:36.680
I think they got scared.

00:57:38.600 --> 00:57:43.200
\"How are they going to pay the money?
It would be crazy.“

00:57:46.520 --> 00:57:49.560
We had some team meetings,

00:57:51.280 --> 00:57:53.680
with investors from other countries.

00:57:54.200 --> 00:57:57.720
Some companies told us, \"Take the money,

00:57:58.360 --> 00:58:01.160
pay those loans, we\'ll support you.\"

00:58:02.200 --> 00:58:04.200
A lot of people were interested

00:58:04.920 --> 00:58:09.360
in us implementing this third strategy.

00:58:11.680 --> 00:58:13.360
The issue here is

00:58:13.520 --> 00:58:16.160
that when China

00:58:16.320 --> 00:58:18.760
tries to colonize South America,

00:58:18.920 --> 00:58:21.320
it affects other interests as well.

00:58:22.200 --> 00:58:23.400
Right?

00:58:29.920 --> 00:58:33.680
At 9 o\'clock in the morning,
a press conference was scheduled

00:58:33.840 --> 00:58:37.440
to go public with
what we had found in the contracts

00:58:37.600 --> 00:58:40.400
and the results

00:58:41.520 --> 00:58:45.040
of the meetings we had with the creditors.

00:58:47.320 --> 00:58:50.440
At 8 o\'clock in the morning,
we received a call

00:58:51.120 --> 00:58:54.360
from someone in the government

00:58:56.000 --> 00:58:59.400
saying our chief had resigned.

00:59:00.440 --> 00:59:03.960
And that was the end of it.

00:59:04.120 --> 00:59:06.200
That\'s the truth of what happened.

00:59:13.040 --> 00:59:14.600
So...

00:59:15.320 --> 00:59:16.680
it hurts us.

00:59:16.840 --> 00:59:19.040
It hurts us as Ecuadorians.

00:59:20.080 --> 00:59:23.480
It hurts us as good people.

00:59:25.160 --> 00:59:27.800
And it hurts us even more

00:59:27.960 --> 00:59:31.040
that future generations
are going to pay for this.

01:02:11.320 --> 01:02:14.800
In terms of the economic policy

01:02:15.680 --> 01:02:17.280
of the Correa regime,

01:02:18.200 --> 01:02:21.360
Moreno is continuing down the same road,

01:02:22.520 --> 01:02:25.200
and worsening the extractivist model.

01:02:26.880 --> 01:02:28.760
In terms of oil,

01:02:28.920 --> 01:02:32.280
he has just signed contracts

01:02:32.440 --> 01:02:35.760
with corporations,
most of which are Chinese,

01:02:36.680 --> 01:02:41.160
for the exploration and exploitation
of the Ecuadorian Amazon,

01:02:41.320 --> 01:02:43.800
mostly in protected areas.

01:02:46.160 --> 01:02:47.520
As for mining,

01:02:49.320 --> 01:02:54.520
some even more brutal projects
are going ahead:

01:02:54.680 --> 01:02:57.920
Fruta del Norte, Mirador,

01:02:58.800 --> 01:03:00.560
in the province of Azuay,

01:03:02.120 --> 01:03:03.520
in Imbabura.

01:03:04.280 --> 01:03:06.600
In other words, there are no limits.

01:03:08.120 --> 01:03:10.600
The indigenous people were next.

01:03:11.960 --> 01:03:13.440
They\'re the victims.

01:03:13.600 --> 01:03:17.520
Their houses were violently destroyed,

01:03:18.480 --> 01:03:20.840
their children attacked,

01:03:21.560 --> 01:03:24.280
children witnessing brutal attacks,

01:03:24.440 --> 01:03:26.560
people being detained, trials,

01:03:26.720 --> 01:03:28.520
the criminalization of their parents,

01:03:28.680 --> 01:03:29.920
women...

01:03:31.120 --> 01:03:33.160
They don\'t care about anything.

01:04:08.520 --> 01:04:10.920
That\'s it! Higher!

01:04:13.360 --> 01:04:15.480
That\'s it, then jump forward!

01:04:15.640 --> 01:04:17.120
Jump forward.

01:04:49.680 --> 01:04:53.120
It really is a mafia.

01:04:53.280 --> 01:04:56.800
It\'s a perverse, criminal,
murderous mafia.

01:04:57.360 --> 01:05:01.040
I use those terms
because fellow Ecuadorians have died.

01:05:02.440 --> 01:05:04.200
Comrades have died.

01:05:49.680 --> 01:05:51.560
Those guys were behind us.

01:05:52.320 --> 01:05:56.600
Now they\'re saying...

01:05:56.760 --> 01:06:00.480
that they want to capture
all three of us at once.

01:06:00.640 --> 01:06:02.600
We only captured one of them,

01:06:02.760 --> 01:06:05.680
because they were fighting
among themselves.

01:06:05.840 --> 01:06:07.760
We went and grabbed him.

01:06:09.320 --> 01:06:11.120
We grabbed him and...

01:06:12.400 --> 01:06:14.160
gave him a good beating.

01:06:15.400 --> 01:06:17.040
I said, \"Tell us, brother!“

01:06:17.200 --> 01:06:19.040
He didn\'t want to talk.

01:06:22.360 --> 01:06:24.280
Let\'s see whose bike it is.

01:06:25.560 --> 01:06:28.960
It has a load of gear on it.

01:06:29.840 --> 01:06:31.800
They ran away.

01:06:31.960 --> 01:06:35.000
Whose bike is this Honda?

01:06:35.160 --> 01:06:38.360
They\'ve left all this gear on it.

01:06:38.520 --> 01:06:41.160
Show me the gun, where is it?

01:06:41.320 --> 01:06:42.880
Who has the gun?

01:06:43.640 --> 01:06:45.000
Let\'s see.

01:06:45.160 --> 01:06:46.680
The gun.

01:06:46.840 --> 01:06:49.240
That\'s it. No, not that one.

01:06:50.040 --> 01:06:51.520
That\'s the one.

01:06:52.520 --> 01:06:54.040
That\'s the one.

01:06:56.920 --> 01:06:58.960
That\'s the one.
- It\'s not.

01:06:59.360 --> 01:07:02.360
How come Manuel asks me...

01:07:07.320 --> 01:07:08.680
Take it.

01:07:10.360 --> 01:07:13.960
Now the motherfuckers will collaborate.

01:07:14.800 --> 01:07:16.360
Take them.

01:07:19.720 --> 01:07:21.440
Grab that one.

01:07:22.040 --> 01:07:23.760
Take it.

01:07:23.920 --> 01:07:25.840
3.80, that\'s it.

01:07:27.440 --> 01:07:29.040
How many bullets?
- Ten.

01:07:29.200 --> 01:07:30.520
Ten bullets.

01:07:31.680 --> 01:07:33.120
Nice, ten bullets.

01:07:33.280 --> 01:07:35.160
This one\'s yours, Simon?
- Yes.

01:07:35.320 --> 01:07:37.040
Simon was carrying this one.

01:07:37.200 --> 01:07:38.920
Right, Simon?
- Yeah.

01:07:40.120 --> 01:07:41.520
Look over here.

01:07:42.280 --> 01:07:44.840
Were you carrying this gun?
- Yes.

01:07:45.000 --> 01:07:47.480
So now you\'re going to get rid of them?

01:07:47.640 --> 01:07:51.760
For over a year
you\'ve been conspiring with the miners,

01:07:51.920 --> 01:07:53.760
with Javier Sánchez and his men,

01:07:53.920 --> 01:07:57.800
and now you say
you\'re going to scare them off?

01:07:58.640 --> 01:08:01.040
You don\'t know who\'s boss around here?

01:08:01.200 --> 01:08:03.520
Who gave you that gun?
- That gun?

01:08:04.800 --> 01:08:05.880
Manuel.

01:08:06.640 --> 01:08:10.280
The man told us that Manuel,

01:08:10.440 --> 01:08:13.400
Manuel from Cochapamba,

01:08:13.560 --> 01:08:15.200
hired the other guys.

01:08:15.360 --> 01:08:17.560
The other guys hired him,

01:08:17.720 --> 01:08:20.080
and we know who...

01:08:20.520 --> 01:08:22.160
He told us.

01:08:23.200 --> 01:08:27.080
The man told us,
\"They hired me too, to kill you.\"

01:08:35.560 --> 01:08:36.920
It\'s scary.

01:08:37.560 --> 01:08:41.800
It\'s scary, brother,
because they\'re hunting us down.

01:10:44.680 --> 01:10:46.960
Our patience is running out.

01:10:47.120 --> 01:10:50.000
There will be no mining. Not on any scale.

01:10:50.160 --> 01:10:52.520
We\'re running out of patience now.

01:10:52.680 --> 01:10:55.040
If we continue to be passive,

01:10:55.200 --> 01:10:58.480
our deaths will come soon.

01:10:59.200 --> 01:11:03.480
And worse than war,
we will lose all our land.

01:11:04.240 --> 01:11:08.720
So now, comrades,
the time has finally come to defend it.

01:11:12.240 --> 01:11:15.960
I think it would also be a good idea

01:11:16.120 --> 01:11:18.800
to call on our comrades

01:11:19.600 --> 01:11:21.880
from further down the coast,

01:11:22.800 --> 01:11:24.200
those from Molleturo,

01:11:24.360 --> 01:11:25.800
so we have around 1,000.

01:11:25.960 --> 01:11:30.160
Then we go up together
and get them out of that camp.

01:11:31.280 --> 01:11:33.200
We are ready

01:11:33.360 --> 01:11:36.760
to pay the price
for defending what is ours,

01:11:36.920 --> 01:11:38.200
our water,

01:11:38.360 --> 01:11:40.360
the future of our children.

01:11:40.520 --> 01:11:44.240
I am and we are ready to pay the price,

01:11:44.400 --> 01:11:46.240
be it prison or death.

01:11:46.400 --> 01:11:47.880
That\'s all, comrades.

01:11:56.960 --> 01:12:00.200
We go in and nobody talks after that, OK?

01:12:00.360 --> 01:12:02.600
We go in, we attack,

01:12:02.760 --> 01:12:06.240
we come out the same way we went in,

01:12:06.400 --> 01:12:09.000
and then go back to where we came out.

01:12:09.160 --> 01:12:10.880
If someone dies, what do we do?

01:12:11.040 --> 01:12:13.680
Sorry?
- If someone dies, we all come back?

01:12:13.840 --> 01:12:15.280
Nobody will die.

01:12:15.440 --> 01:12:17.520
In case someone does,

01:12:17.680 --> 01:12:21.200
we are all there, we strike back.

01:12:21.360 --> 01:12:24.640
We open fire, but not until then.

01:12:24.800 --> 01:12:26.160
Let\'s go.

01:14:05.560 --> 01:14:08.440
It\'s burning, the camp is burning.

01:14:09.280 --> 01:14:11.240
Watch out, they\'re shooting.

01:14:11.720 --> 01:14:13.680
They\'ve gathered down below.

01:14:20.040 --> 01:14:21.640
Watch out!

01:14:21.800 --> 01:14:23.640
They\'re shooting!

01:14:30.880 --> 01:14:33.240
What the hell?

01:14:37.640 --> 01:14:38.840
Let\'s go down.

01:14:44.320 --> 01:14:45.640
Son of a bitch.

01:15:40.640 --> 01:15:44.400
No public, no press, and only
some of the key figures in the trial

01:15:44.560 --> 01:15:47.160
are present at Ecuador\'s
National Court of Justice

01:15:47.320 --> 01:15:49.400
for Iván León\'s pronouncement

01:15:49.560 --> 01:15:52.760
of the verdict
against former president Correa,

01:15:52.920 --> 01:15:55.840
which was reached
after 26 days of deliberation

01:15:56.000 --> 01:15:59.720
with federal judges
Marco Rodríguez and Iván Saquicela.

01:16:10.640 --> 01:16:14.600
This is the final phase of the trial.

01:16:16.000 --> 01:16:19.480
Now the court will adjourn

01:16:21.000 --> 01:16:23.240
to evaluate the evidence presented

01:16:24.440 --> 01:16:26.400
and reach...

01:16:28.720 --> 01:16:30.680
a judgment.

01:16:30.840 --> 01:16:34.840
For the first time in the history
of this country and perhaps Latin America,

01:16:35.000 --> 01:16:40.840
a regime that governed for a decade
has been brought before a criminal court,

01:16:41.000 --> 01:16:45.400
accused of corruption, of bribery,

01:16:45.560 --> 01:16:47.880
that is, of having bribed

01:16:48.720 --> 01:16:52.480
large construction companies
that had contracts with the state

01:16:52.640 --> 01:16:54.720
to obtain funding from bribes

01:16:54.880 --> 01:16:58.760
to finance political campaigns
for a decade.

01:17:02.720 --> 01:17:04.560
In my investigation,

01:17:04.720 --> 01:17:06.600
I spoke to one of the agents

01:17:06.760 --> 01:17:09.800
and he confirmed that he was on a flight

01:17:10.520 --> 01:17:12.160
without passengers,

01:17:12.320 --> 01:17:14.480
and there was money on that flight.

01:17:15.760 --> 01:17:16.760
Yes.

01:17:17.240 --> 01:17:21.000
We\'re talking about 185 flights

01:17:21.160 --> 01:17:23.200
made by presidential planes

01:17:23.360 --> 01:17:25.360
with no passengers and no destinations.

01:17:25.520 --> 01:17:27.800
Most of them flew to tax havens.

01:17:28.680 --> 01:17:32.760
The prosecutor\'s office
has requested 12 criminal prosecutions

01:17:32.920 --> 01:17:35.040
based on my information.

01:18:42.160 --> 01:18:44.000
That was my victory.

01:18:45.800 --> 01:18:47.920
For five years,

01:18:48.080 --> 01:18:50.080
I evaded the powers that be,

01:18:50.240 --> 01:18:53.520
the most brutal regime
that Ecuador has ever endured.

01:18:54.480 --> 01:18:56.560
It\'s possible in a republic.

01:18:57.920 --> 01:19:00.520
Today they are in prison,

01:19:00.680 --> 01:19:02.600
they are on the run.

01:19:02.760 --> 01:19:04.920
They are in handcuffs.

01:19:06.120 --> 01:19:07.480
And I\'m free.

01:19:07.640 --> 01:19:09.920
I wasn\'t in prison for one second.

01:19:11.600 --> 01:19:13.160
Not one second.

01:19:14.920 --> 01:19:18.960
Many of those I investigated,

01:19:20.480 --> 01:19:22.520
or some of them, are in prison.

01:19:23.200 --> 01:19:25.760
And the others will be soon.

01:19:48.040 --> 01:19:49.720
It\'s no longer a camp.

01:19:52.880 --> 01:19:55.480
Three little trees...

01:19:58.880 --> 01:20:04.360
Here it\'s written,
\"We Chinese have to get out of here.\"

01:20:06.560 --> 01:20:09.840
\"We can\'t mine in Ecuador, let\'s leave.\"

01:22:08.360 --> 01:22:10.120
This contaminates the water.

01:22:11.400 --> 01:22:14.600
So we just...

01:22:14.760 --> 01:22:17.880
took a sweet little sip.

01:22:18.040 --> 01:22:21.120
Just for a few seconds.

01:22:21.800 --> 01:22:23.520
Because in October,

01:22:23.680 --> 01:22:27.680
the people took over this mining camp.

01:22:27.840 --> 01:22:31.000
And here begins another story,
another way of life.

01:22:31.160 --> 01:22:34.160
But the bitter sip
is one we drink every day,

01:22:34.320 --> 01:22:36.760
and we want to keep on drinking it,

01:22:36.920 --> 01:22:40.240
so we don\'t get carried away
and think we\'ve triumphed,

01:22:40.400 --> 01:22:43.680
so we don\'t think
we\'ve achieved something,

01:22:43.840 --> 01:22:48.760
because we know there are
832 other mining projects in Azuay.

01:22:48.920 --> 01:22:52.880
All these projects are around
the Macizo del Cajas biosphere,

01:22:53.040 --> 01:22:55.360
which is the area we\'re trying to protect.

01:22:55.520 --> 01:22:59.000
What this does is it encourages us,

01:22:59.160 --> 01:23:01.680
and it encourages other struggles

01:23:01.840 --> 01:23:04.000
that have begun in the country

01:23:04.160 --> 01:23:06.680
since the people of Río Blanco

01:23:06.840 --> 01:23:11.920
were able to banish
this Chinese corporation.

01:23:13.480 --> 01:23:15.440
Long live...

01:23:15.600 --> 01:23:17.240
Long live Pan de Azúcar.

01:23:17.800 --> 01:23:19.200
Long live San Bartolo.

01:23:19.800 --> 01:23:21.560
Long live Río Blanco.

01:23:21.720 --> 01:23:23.760
Long live Cochapamba.

01:23:23.920 --> 01:23:25.600
Long live Santa María.

01:23:26.080 --> 01:23:27.800
Long live the community.

01:23:29.440 --> 01:23:30.960
Long live...

01:23:32.680 --> 01:23:34.440
Long live the Resistance.

01:23:36.320 --> 01:23:38.520
Long live our land.

01:23:40.200 --> 01:23:41.480
Thank you.

01:23:52.680 --> 01:24:00.040
We warn you: never come back.

01:24:02.280 --> 01:24:11.320
We await you with stones in our hands.

01:24:11.800 --> 01:24:18.880
We have sworn to love each other until death.

01:24:21.080 --> 01:24:25.960
And even if we have to die...

01:24:26.120 --> 01:24:33.480
for the flower called our homeland.

01:27:08.440 --> 01:27:13.960
I was traveling to the city of Cuenca
to visit my mother

01:27:14.120 --> 01:27:17.600
and while I was on this trip,
I received two calls.

01:27:17.760 --> 01:27:20.160
One from one of the leaders of Molleturo

01:27:20.320 --> 01:27:23.240
and another from a lawyer
who supports our cause.

01:27:23.400 --> 01:27:27.360
\"We have it from good sources
that you\'re in the red.\"

01:27:27.520 --> 01:27:30.360
He says,
\"You have to withdraw for a while.\"

01:27:31.000 --> 01:27:32.680
But in spite of that,

01:27:34.920 --> 01:27:38.760
the Resistance goes on,
this struggle goes on.

01:27:38.920 --> 01:27:42.320
In spite of
being persecuted, criminalized,

01:27:42.480 --> 01:27:48.000
in spite of evil governments
and corporations wanting us dead.

01:28:08.160 --> 01:28:11.080
Brother, I am here asking for your life,

01:28:11.800 --> 01:28:13.360
for your courage,

01:28:14.440 --> 01:28:17.560
for you to safely
make it through this struggle.

01:28:19.520 --> 01:28:21.480
I\'m going to pass you the tobacco,

01:28:22.680 --> 01:28:24.360
so you can pray,

01:28:24.520 --> 01:28:27.600
and declare your intention
to be well tempered,

01:28:28.520 --> 01:28:31.400
and that even if
we have to go to the other side,

01:28:31.560 --> 01:28:33.040
it will be beautiful.

01:29:32.560 --> 01:29:36.040
If the great spirit
offered me the choice,

01:29:38.040 --> 01:29:41.560
I would choose
the great honor to die fighting.