During these 20 years, teleSUR has been the witness and voice of countless humanitarian events. One of the most followed was the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean, a tragedy that we began to warn about from our beginnings and that worsened over time, turning the sea into a cemetery because of European migration policies. teleSUR
00:00In these 20 years, Telesur has been the witness and voice of countless humanitarian events.
00:23One of the most followed was the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean,
00:27a tragedy that we began to worry about from our beginnings,
00:31and that worsened over time, turning the sea into a cemetery because of European migration policy.
00:37Let's see.
00:38And beyond the waters of Latin America, the Italian Coast Guards continue intercepting ships loaded with immigrants.
00:45In 2015, Europe was the scene of one of the biggest humanitarian crises of the 21st century.
00:53Thousands of people fled horror, but instead of finding refuge, they found a sea that swallowed their dreams.
01:00Life after life, the Mediterranean became a liquid cemetery, a reflection of the absence of safe and legal ways to flee suffering.
01:07The situation is quite delicate and quite dramatic because the sea conditions may seem good for us,
01:15but not for the ships travelling from the Libyan coast to Europe.
01:20The small and remote Italian island of Lampedusa was, for years, the first shore of hope and also of pain.
01:27Europe was not up to the task and its policies left the refugees on their own.
01:32We are fighting a battle of values, of humanity, of civility.
01:42The European values came from Italy and Spain.
01:46Migrants at sea must first be saved.
01:49The crisis spread like an unstoppable tide throughout the Mediterranean.
01:57Those who did not dare the sea walked through the Balkans, crossing mountains, fences and closed borders.
02:03Each step opened up new routes, longer, more hidden and more dangerous.
02:09In the last hours, maritime rescue ships have been searching for four inflatable boats in the Mediterranean Sea,
02:18between the coast of Morocco and southern Spain.
02:21In 2019, Bamba arrived exhausted at an Andalusian port.
02:30A red blanket covered his cold, soaked but still living body.
02:34Almost a decade after, he still looks out to the sea with his memory alight,
02:38that sea that could have been his grave.
02:40When I arrived here, I am always reminded of August 29, 2019.
02:51That was the day I arrived here.
02:54I will always remember that day, because it was a very hard day and a complicated day.
03:01Europe failed to solve a historic refugee crisis and the pressure was on civilians to cope with the rescue of lives.
03:09An inflatable boat of about four and a half meters with 26 people.
03:14They made a stop at the island and when they tried to start again, the engine did not work.
03:19Miguel Parcha was removed from his boat. His crime was saving lives.
03:24More than 10,000 people rescued by his boat during the worst years of the crisis in Spain.
03:29When the institution fails, he shows the sea.
03:33At that time, the Guardamar Polimia was the one that did the most rescues.
03:44The one that undertook the most jobs.
03:48The one that caught the most migrants daily.
03:52But they decided to get rid of the captain of the ship.
03:57And then, in September 2018, they dismissed me.
04:03The crisis of the refugees in Europe marked a turning point.
04:07It was an unprecedented humanitarian, political and ethical challenge.
04:11It exposed the weight of borders on human lives.
04:14And revealed the deep contradictions of the values of the European Union
04:18that were shipwrecked in the waters of the Mediterranean.
04:22The other end of the in Beijing.
04:25The two of the winds were in the woods, a lock in the mountain.
04:26The two to the south of the island.
04:29The one that came out of the ruins.
04:30The two to the south an island.
04:32The one that was in the village where the third where the third in the south of the island or in eastern the island.
04:36The two teams found those units were the most worried, the most worried that the biodiversity and the majority of the nations were in the mountains.
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