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A profound portrait of Christopher Hartley, a priest who is the only hope for illegal Haitians working as modern-day slaves on sugarcane plantations in the Dominican Republic.
Director: Bill Haney
Director: Bill Haney
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00:00:02Ayyyy, llegó tu bachatero mami
00:00:12Un corazón cargado de injusticia
00:00:17Una lágrima que parte nuestras almas
00:00:20Ayyyy, mi corazón
00:00:25Ayyyy, mi corazón
00:00:29Guadalero Marcaso
00:00:32Ya traje azul
00:00:33Bienes
00:00:34Me lanzó en paz
00:00:49He llegado en la República Dominicana
00:00:53A edad del 97
00:00:57I had no idea of the magnitude of all that I was going to confront.
00:01:40If he is a father of the truth, he has to understand that the community does not want him.
00:01:45The judge will either take him out of the country or we are going to take him out.
00:01:49He is a judge enemy of the Republic.
00:01:55Los Llanos! Los Llanos! Los Llanos!
00:02:03The town of Los Llanos in the Dominican Republic is the center of Father Christopher Hartley's parish.
00:02:23Every day he goes out to the sugar plantations, to the tiny villages known as Bateyes, where Dominicans rarely go.
00:02:33One of the first things I was told, some of the people in the Dominican Republic came to me and
00:02:39said,
00:02:39And by the way, remember that you are not allowed into the Vicini Bateyes.
00:02:43It took me three months to muster the courage to go into the sugar cane fields.
00:03:10The growing and harvesting of Dominican sugar cane is done almost entirely by laborers from Haiti.
00:03:25What Father Christopher saw in the plantations, he began to document.
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00:03:50And tell me one thing, are you going to go away?
00:03:53Descalzo.
00:03:53That's not worth it for a family to buy an abortion.
00:03:56Yeah.
00:03:58Are you rich or poor?
00:04:00We are poor.
00:04:02We are happy.
00:04:03God is helping us.
00:04:05God is helping us.
00:04:08We are poor, poor, poor.
00:04:10There are days we sleep without eating.
00:04:21What happened?
00:04:23Very well.
00:04:25Gradually, I began to learn more about their situation.
00:04:30What I discovered was truly appalling.
00:04:34That has come out like this.
00:04:36No more to there and no more to here.
00:04:39The last days, I put them in the clean.
00:04:43And I took them out of the water.
00:04:44How will it be?
00:04:45Yes.
00:04:46Here is the result.
00:04:48Are you going to get sick with that water?
00:04:50Yes.
00:04:50Here are the ingredients full of parasites.
00:04:54Parasitos.
00:04:54They are all nutritive, the parasites of the water.
00:04:57Yes.
00:04:57How many are you cooking here?
00:04:58How many people?
00:04:59A lot.
00:05:01Eight people.
00:05:02Eight, for eight?
00:05:03Yes.
00:05:04Very well.
00:05:06How many they live here?
00:05:08Seven, Father.
00:05:09Seven people.
00:05:10Seven people?
00:05:10Yes.
00:05:20Yes.
00:05:25Breaking a centuries-old taboo,
00:05:27the father brings in outsiders, American doctors,
00:05:32to see what they can do to help.
00:05:49Really, these are some of the worst conditions that I've ever seen.
00:05:52This is really extreme poverty.
00:05:54You know, families are living without access to water,
00:05:56without access to food,
00:05:57without access to, you know, really any health care
00:06:00or any infrastructure at all.
00:06:06The Haitian workers are under armed guard.
00:06:09They're not going to be able to do it.
00:06:10They're not going to be able to do it.
00:06:10They are not allowed to leave the plantations.
00:06:24People come here in the hope of a better life.
00:06:28The truth of the matter is that they make less than 90 cents a day.
00:06:34And instead of cash, they receive vouchers,
00:06:38which they can redeem for high-priced food at a company store.
00:06:42The next day, the
00:06:47But you don't want to return to your country
00:06:49and see if your family is alive?
00:06:51No.
00:06:53No.
00:06:57He was told that he was going to make a very good wage
00:07:00when he was brought as a very young man in 1976.
00:07:03And he realizes that the end of his life is going to come here,
00:07:06the Bate, and he has absolutely nothing.
00:07:10That's the expression that he used in Spanish.
00:07:12Yo no tengo nada. I have nothing.
00:07:16All he has is the roof that the company has put off his head.
00:07:20And it lets him stay for as long as he is useful.
00:07:36The Dominican Republic is a vacationer's paradise.
00:07:43Europeans and Americans flock here in the winter months.
00:07:53But just inland from the coast are the sugar plantations.
00:08:01250,000 acres of them.
00:08:05The country's most important agricultural industry.
00:08:11The Dominican Republic shares a Caribbean island with Haiti.
00:08:19It was here that African slaves were first used in the Americas
00:08:23to cut sugar cane.
00:08:29The two nations make uneasy neighbors.
00:08:34Haiti is one of the most dysfunctional countries in the world,
00:08:38rife with poverty and violence.
00:08:41To Haitians, the Dominican Republic,
00:08:44though itself a poor country,
00:08:46offers the promise of survival.
00:09:03There are five large sugar companies in the Dominican Republic.
00:09:09The Vicini family,
00:09:11which owns most of the plantations in Father Christopher's parish,
00:09:15is one of the wealthiest.
00:09:23And here is the boss here.
00:09:26You got the people working for him here.
00:09:29Many people working for him here.
00:09:31Many, many.
00:09:34It's very rich.
00:09:36He got houses.
00:09:37Oh my God.
00:09:38Every kind of house.
00:09:3920 million.
00:09:4110 million the house.
00:09:4240 million.
00:09:44Beautiful house.
00:09:47The Vicini family's business interests extend beyond sugar
00:09:51to include banking, property, and the media.
00:10:00Gustavo Pena is the editor of Clave Digital,
00:10:04an online newspaper that has managed to maintain its independence.
00:10:24In fact, the second Vicini to run the family sugar business,
00:10:28Juan Bautista,
00:10:29was president of the Dominican Republic in the early 1920s.
00:10:35The network of Vicini corporations
00:10:37is currently run by Juan Bautista and Felipe Vicini.
00:10:43Despite their prominence,
00:10:45they keep out of the public eye.
00:10:47There are few published photographs of the family,
00:10:50and they are rarely mentioned in the press.
00:10:53The Vicini refused to be interviewed for this film.
00:11:17Ana Matila Lora works for the TV station Tele Antijas.
00:11:47Father Christopher is on his way to the Haitian border
00:11:50with Father Pedro Rucrois,
00:11:52a Belgian priest who has been helping the sugar cane workers here for 30 years.
00:12:03They want to see for themselves
00:12:04how the sugar companies bring Haitians into the country.
00:12:10Haitians are recruited by what are called buscones,
00:12:14who work for the companies,
00:12:16and go across the border into Haiti
00:12:18and recruit approximately 30,000 men every harvest season.
00:12:28Their journey takes them far from the tourist resorts
00:12:31and the sugar plantations
00:12:33up into the mountains near the border with Haiti.
00:12:45Father Christopher knows where the buscones spring the Haitians across
00:12:49because of a tip-off from a Vicini employee.
00:12:53How we got wind of this story is actually very ironic.
00:12:59This Haitian who worked as one of the buscones came to me
00:13:04complaining that the person for whom he had rounded up 200 men
00:13:11had not paid him.
00:13:15So in other words, he was a slave merchant
00:13:17who had not received his reward
00:13:20and was coming to the priest asking for justice.
00:13:26So we brought Darío into my house
00:13:30and with a video camera
00:13:32we asked him to tell us the whole story.
00:13:54The government's complicity in human trafficking is obvious
00:13:57as soon as the priests reach the army post near the frontier.
00:14:03The people who are going to work with the Bates
00:14:06who are undocumented and all that.
00:14:08Yes, yes, they go up there.
00:14:10They go up there.
00:14:11Yes.
00:14:12And in these days, have they been going up a lot?
00:14:14Yes, they go up there.
00:14:15Because they go up there and they go up there.
00:14:18And you can't do anything up there?
00:14:20They can't go up there?
00:14:22No, one knows, one doesn't joke with those people.
00:14:25We don't joke with those people.
00:14:26We don't joke with those people.
00:14:29We don't joke with those people.
00:14:31We don't joke with those people.
00:14:32We don't joke with those people.
00:14:39We don't joke with those people.
00:14:40By nightfall, Father Christopher and Father Pedro
00:14:43reach the border camp.
00:14:47Here, Haitians are made to wait
00:14:49until they can be shipped to the plantations.
00:15:04The man who directs the shipment of Haitians
00:15:07to the Vichini cane fields is named Merite.
00:15:35These people have been lured across the border
00:15:38with tales of good jobs.
00:15:42They are so desperate,
00:15:43they've even paid Merite's men to bring them here.
00:15:47What's your name?
00:15:49Espinal.
00:15:49Where do you live, Espinal?
00:15:51In Chicafe.
00:15:53Where are you going?
00:15:56I'm going to work for life.
00:15:59Where?
00:16:00In Santo Domingo.
00:16:01In Santo Domingo?
00:16:02In the first year, I'm going to work.
00:16:05You've never been picked up the cane before?
00:16:08No.
00:16:08You don't know how to pick the cane?
00:16:10Well, I'm going to work because I'm a man.
00:16:13I'm a man.
00:16:14I'm going to work.
00:16:15To work.
00:16:16Yes.
00:16:18But Espinal has been brought across the border
00:16:21for only one purpose, to cut cane.
00:16:27Haitians who have documents or identity cards
00:16:29are stripped of them.
00:16:33They are now stateless, illegal,
00:16:36and subject to arrest everywhere in the Dominican Republic,
00:16:39except on the plantations.
00:16:45They are bused into the Bateas
00:16:48two or three o'clock in the morning,
00:16:49so they do not know where they are,
00:16:51and therefore it cannot escape, cannot run away.
00:16:57Now, hey.
00:16:59Concentration camp.
00:17:01And we're going to be able to shoot here, but...
00:17:04Eh, eh, eh, eh, see?
00:17:05I don't see why not.
00:17:06We're going to get into a lot of trouble.
00:17:08But if you don't mind it...
00:17:09Let's do this.
00:17:10No, no.
00:17:11No.
00:17:12Shoot as fast as you can,
00:17:14because you don't know how many seconds
00:17:15you're going to have before you're kicked out.
00:17:25The sooner we can get out of here, guys, the better, eh?
00:17:28Ready?
00:17:29Yeah.
00:17:29Hold on.
00:17:30Well, guys, I hope it was useful.
00:17:41This is where they're going to put the workers when they arrive.
00:17:47Anywhere from 60 to 100 people will be crammed into this one barrack.
00:17:52You can see all the wiring up on the top,
00:17:56which is to prevent them from escaping at night.
00:17:58And they will have armed men at the door of the barracks at night,
00:18:02so they don't attempt to flee, eh, the barrack in the night.
00:18:13But they are like a state within a state,
00:18:17because the company there is the police,
00:18:21is the government.
00:18:23They exercise absolute authority
00:18:27over the lives of those who dwell there,
00:18:30which is quasi-slavery.
00:18:38They have received a loan,
00:18:40which pay more or less well to their employees
00:18:42and those who are here in the capital.
00:18:45But I've never understood why
00:18:47these families,
00:18:48in the battles of them,
00:18:49are where they are the worst employees of the camp,
00:18:52the barrack,
00:18:53living in conditions, eh,
00:18:56that really remember the barracks
00:18:58of the middle age, eh,
00:19:00of the esclavists.
00:19:00It's incredible, eh?
00:19:16As many as a million Haitians live in the Dominican Republic,
00:19:22no one knows for certain how many live in the Batees.
00:19:29My name is Johnny Belisaires.
00:19:31My parents are immigrants Haitians.
00:19:35So I was born in a Batee.
00:19:39I work like that as a child.
00:19:43By the age of 7,
00:19:45my parents sent pity me while I was in the court
00:19:47and watched the horse GB and I centrifunal
00:19:50and followed my horse around the horse
00:19:53all day,
00:19:54in the court.
00:20:20My name is Yela Machiaza, I was born in Haiti.
00:20:23I live now in a village called Canepa.
00:20:29I came to La CAC because in 1994 the president was there.
00:20:36There was a killing of people.
00:20:43My husband is a picker of the cane.
00:20:48What he won't do is to educate his children.
00:20:51I don't want to do anything.
00:20:54I don't want to do anything.
00:21:09The Bate dwellers get much of their calories from chewing sugarcane.
00:21:16Their diet often leads to malnutrition.
00:21:19I don't want to do anything.
00:21:39I have 25 years old and I was born in this Batey.
00:21:43I've never seen the face of the owner, Jose Vizuno,
00:21:47come here and sit down and ask people how they feel.
00:21:54I've never seen it.
00:21:55They only walk in their helicopter.
00:22:12Most of this product ends up in the United States.
00:22:16The United States purchases the raw material.
00:22:20It's processed in the refineries in the United States
00:22:24and it ends up on the American table.
00:22:31I'm sure most American families would be very embarrassed to know
00:22:35at what price they put sugar in their coffee every morning.
00:22:39?
00:22:39?
00:23:37The Vicini family have a lot of blood on their hands.
00:23:42This is well known.
00:23:45Nobody dares speak out and say it because many people fear for their lives or the lives
00:23:54of their loved ones.
00:23:56And this is a fact.
00:23:58People disappear.
00:24:00People are never found.
00:24:05In an unmarked corner of the Vicini plantation is a cemetery.
00:24:13Dominicans don't know of this cemetery.
00:24:16I only found this place about seven, eight months ago.
00:24:19And I've been here for seven years.
00:24:22And nobody had ever mentioned it.
00:24:23It's like a taboo place.
00:24:28You're standing on people's bodies.
00:24:31All of this.
00:24:32It's not just where you see crosses.
00:24:35Some are very obvious.
00:24:36You can just see those lumps.
00:24:38Why all of a sudden there's no grass over there?
00:24:41I mean, this is tropical weather.
00:24:44Everything grows in five minutes.
00:24:47This is the man who was murdered the night of December 7th.
00:24:53He was beaten as he was climbing into the bus to come across the border.
00:24:58And he was found dead on arrival at the Vicini Batei called Coppellito.
00:25:13Dario told the priest that Meritei, the Vicini's chief plantation guard, was a cruel and brutal man.
00:25:36There was a struggle because there were many, many hundreds of people trying to get into these buses.
00:25:42And clearly, not enough buses.
00:25:45This individual couldn't make it through the door of the bus.
00:25:50And Meritei hit him with a stick across the chest.
00:25:55But he was so eager to get into the bus that he crawled in and Meritei just let him go.
00:26:04When they arrived here in Coppellito, this man is still lying down.
00:26:10They're going to shake him and he's dead.
00:26:20The next day, a body was dumped in the unmarked cemetery.
00:26:27But believing you know what happened and proving it are different matters.
00:26:33The weakness of the case is the link between the physical violence and the fact that this was the same
00:26:41person.
00:26:43Dario heard of that, but he wasn't present when they found the man dead.
00:26:47And he wasn't present at the burial.
00:26:51So we would need an autopsy, we would need a permit from the judge.
00:26:55Especially being a Haitian, a judge is going to be very reluctant to take the case of a crime
00:27:05that could directly or indirectly be attributed to the Vicini company.
00:27:23The Vicini family have indirectly many times tried to pressure me to not go into the Bates.
00:27:29In fact, that's one of the great fears of the Spanish Embassy, the American Embassy is that what would happen
00:27:37if they stop you deliberately and explicitly forbid you from entering the Bates.
00:27:45And I've always said, I would certainly go anyway, I don't care what they did to me.
00:27:51And they know very well how determined I am to change this system.
00:28:08Can I speak with Carolina Núñez, please?
00:28:15January 20th, the year 2000, I was here in my residence when this lady comes to say,
00:28:22Father, President Leonel Fernández is coming tomorrow to Batey Gautier for some political activity.
00:28:27And it is the custom in the Dominican Republic, they always invite the priest to give an invocation or to
00:28:32say a prayer,
00:28:33to invoke God's blessing on the president, on the people and so on.
00:28:40And what was supposed to be a simple blessing became a five-page speech.
00:28:47I was very brave the night I wrote it and I was shivering with fear when I suddenly had to
00:28:57read out the words that I had very courageously written.
00:29:11I was shivering the horrible living conditions and telling the president that he had come to the threshold of hell.
00:29:38The publicity forced the vicini into discussions with the church.
00:29:43For three years, the family held meetings with a committee that included the priest, the bishop and the church's lawyer,
00:29:51Noemi Mendez.
00:30:19And then came the death threats.
00:30:42On the line, they won't listen with me.
00:30:51So glad you gave me a little place.
00:30:51Father Christopher's upbringing is in stark contrast to the situation he is now confronting.
00:30:59His mother, Pilar, is from the Spanish aristocracy.
00:31:04The daughter of a count, her family includes a Marquis, an ambassador, and even a prime minister.
00:31:12His father's family founded the famous British company Hartley's Jam.
00:31:23We'd been married for five years living in London, and our three children were born in London.
00:31:30And we came to live here in 1964, and we've been very happy.
00:31:38Christopher is the oldest, Virginia, and William, Billy.
00:31:45At school, if we were in any sort of trouble, we could say, we'll call Christopher, and he will, you
00:31:52know, fix this fight very quickly, you know.
00:31:54So we did, I definitely felt protected by him, and he was very much there for us in school.
00:32:00So he did have already kind of a strong personality that he was kind of respected, you know.
00:32:08And not only a strong personality, but also strong physically.
00:32:11Strong, he was strong physically.
00:32:12So he was a sportsman.
00:32:14He was very competitive in his sports.
00:32:17So he always wanted to win.
00:32:19He really was very competitive.
00:32:23He got so much energy, you know, we couldn't stop him.
00:32:27And then sometimes, you know, we asked him to do something, and he was a little bit, how you say,
00:32:38rebelde.
00:32:38He was always getting into trouble.
00:32:42He was very difficult.
00:32:55But when he was 15 years old, Christopher had an experience that would change his life.
00:33:05I have never told anyone the story of my vocation, because I do not know how to put into words
00:33:13what happened to me.
00:33:16All I know is I sat on the edge of my bed, and I realized I was a very unhappy
00:33:22person, with no reason whatsoever to be unhappy.
00:33:29At that point, I realized that God loved me, and that I wanted to give my whole life to him.
00:33:43As soon as I came into the room, he said to me, Mommy, I want to go to a seminary.
00:33:49And I started laughing, because I thought, really, this is the last thing I can hear from him, you know,
00:33:55to a seminary.
00:33:57Yes, you, I said, come on, don't joke, come on.
00:34:03And he looked at me in such a way, I can't forget it, you know.
00:34:08With eyes like that, I said, Mommy, I'm going to go to seminary, because Christ asked me to follow him,
00:34:17and I'm going to follow him.
00:34:19And in that moment, in the way he looked at me, I understood that was serious.
00:34:26Well, if your son says that he's going to be an engine driver, or a mass poisoner, or something, you
00:34:34can, you can remonstrate, you can talk to him, and you can, if he says he wants to be a
00:34:39priest, it's very difficult.
00:34:42You can't say a priest is intrinsically a bad thing to be, and you're not going to earn any money.
00:34:48I mean, so, I find myself, as far as that goes, at a dead end.
00:34:54There's no, nothing you could, you can't really answer that one.
00:35:02The type of society that I grew up in, you know, very exclusive, very privileged,
00:35:07which may seem many times like, you know, throwing away a phenomenal future.
00:35:13But this year, it's going to be 30 years that I entered the seminary, and I have never had a
00:35:18doubt.
00:35:44The Christmas of 1976, when I was worthy spent a year, year and a half in the seminary,
00:35:51one of the gifts was a book from my father, and it was about Mother Teresa,
00:35:59with the most striking images about the horrible misery of the streets of Calcutta.
00:36:16When I saw those photographs, I never said anything to anybody, but deep down in my heart,
00:36:22I recall distinctly the saying, I want to spend the rest of my life doing exactly this.
00:36:31I met Mother Teresa for the first time in August of 1977, when I was 18.
00:36:38I volunteered to work in one of her shelters in the outskirts of London.
00:36:43I remember her very distinctly saying, love the poor and be holy.
00:36:49Love the poor and be holy.
00:36:53And that was like carved in my brain, like chiseled with fire.
00:37:02Christopher spent much of the next 20 years working for Mother Teresa.
00:37:14Once working in the Home for the Dying in Calcutta, I remember there was this man brought from a gutter,
00:37:24who was obviously going to live not another day.
00:37:29Mother Teresa told me, Christopher, take care of him.
00:37:34At lunchtime, we were told we all had to go home.
00:37:36I wanted to stay, but I was forced to go home.
00:37:38We all had to have lunch.
00:37:40I was sure that when I came back in the afternoon to work there, he would be dead.
00:37:45When I came back, he was barely alive.
00:37:48And from his little cot, he looked at me.
00:37:52He stretched his arms out.
00:37:55And I held his hands in my hands.
00:37:58And his last words just before he died were, I've been waiting for you.
00:38:06And in a sense, that is what every poor person says to me.
00:38:11With words, without words, with different words.
00:38:15I have been waiting for you.
00:38:33Fear and hatred of Haitians has long been a part of Dominican society.
00:38:41Almost every day, the media reports on acts of violence around the country.
00:38:54For many Haitians, the Bateys, however deprived, are the only place they can feel safe.
00:39:00There is no problem.
00:39:03There is a problem.
00:39:04No, I can tell you, who is that?
00:39:06It's the only place that I would like.
00:39:08It's the only place that I would like.
00:39:13It's the only place I have.
00:39:14It's the only place where I have.
00:39:14Baba is the only place where I am.
00:39:36The first thing we did was begin feeding centers in the spring of 2001.
00:39:43We had nothing. We didn't have a kitchen.
00:39:45Kids brought a plate and a spoon from their homes.
00:39:47We just started feeding people.
00:39:51This piece of property was given by the government to the church.
00:39:57Unfortunately, when the sugar cane companies realized, they brought in the military to basically throw me out.
00:40:07I was very forceful.
00:40:09I insisted that they were the ones who were supposed to leave and I would not move.
00:40:14I was very fortunate that the dwellers of the Bataille encouraged by my stand, especially women, all gathered around me
00:40:23and started screaming at the military, supporting me.
00:40:28Finally, the military gave in and they never came back again.
00:40:33But just to be on the safe side, our first major investment at a tremendous expense was to build this
00:40:40very high wall around the property.
00:40:42Because unfortunately, in places where the rule of law does not exist, walls speak much more eloquently than signatures.
00:40:55Father Christopher raised money from the Spanish government to build a compound in the middle of Bataille Paloma and began
00:41:02to serve meals on a grand scale.
00:41:07We are at present feeding over 450 children every day, Monday through Friday.
00:41:15It's the only decent meal that they're going to have in the whole day.
00:41:47The Bicini
00:41:48had the intention of beginning the harvest this season without telling them the price per ton of sugarcane that they
00:41:54were going to be paid.
00:41:55Oh, they'll find out on first payment day.
00:41:59Did anybody ever take up a job without knowing how much they were going to be paid?
00:42:12I went to every Bataille, and I said, nobody works.
00:42:16It was the first strike.
00:42:17It started with a strike.
00:42:20The head of the Bicini plantation guards, Merite, tries to intervene.
00:42:39They tried to avoid as much as they can a direct confrontation with me.
00:42:45Because psychologically, on the employees, it looks very negative if they have a confrontation, and they lose every confrontation.
00:42:53Because I don't budge.
00:42:54I'm not the one who's afraid. You're afraid.
00:42:57I don't know.
00:42:58It also would be very negative if I lost one of these confrontations.
00:43:02That's why I always try to be very sure that what I'm doing is right.
00:43:07It might be dangerous, it might be risky, but it has to be right, because that's my only protection.
00:43:15Listen, what I wanted to tell you, Johnny, is that this Sunday we have a meeting with all the workers.
00:43:24You have to move on to this whole group of people, so that all the workers are going to leave
00:43:29me.
00:43:40We began to explain to them some of the teachings of the church, which sometimes are even very unknown to
00:43:47Catholics.
00:43:48But the church in the Second Vatican Council, of all documents, says that workers have a right to strike.
00:43:55You have to always be united, always united, because one alone is an infelic, a poor boy.
00:44:04But if you are united, nobody can win them.
00:44:07A one person can vote from here, but they won't vote for 300.
00:44:12Because if you don't pick a caña, what happens with the wagoner?
00:44:16What happens with the wagoner if the picker doesn't pick?
00:44:20What happens with the cadenero if the picker doesn't pick?
00:44:25What happens with the tractorist?
00:44:27What happens with the carer?
00:44:30What happens with the engine?
00:44:32The engine doesn't move, so who is the most important person in the company?
00:44:37The picker?
00:44:38Look, the picker is the most important person in this company.
00:44:43Because if the picker doesn't pick, the engine doesn't move.
00:44:47No, no.
00:44:47No, no.
00:44:48No, no, no.
00:44:49The force is in unity, in unity.
00:44:52Okay?
00:44:52Yes.
00:44:53So, it's always united.
00:44:53Dako?
00:44:54Yes.
00:44:55Dako.
00:44:59Today we won't go to the court.
00:45:02Today we won't go to the court.
00:45:05Now?
00:45:06Yes.
00:45:08Nobody left...
00:45:09No, no, no, no, no.
00:45:15After strikes in 23 battees, the vicini concede to the workers' demands and tell them how
00:45:22much they will be paid, even giving them a small pay raise.
00:45:28But there would be consequences.
00:45:42This year has been a terrible drought, and they've had plenty of fires which they're
00:45:46trying to blame on me.
00:46:23I have been threatened several times.
00:46:26The last one was only about a week ago.
00:46:31The message that was sent to me was to tell the Reverend that one day someone's going
00:46:39to find him lying in the sugarcane fields with his mouth full of flies.
00:46:46And the other was a threat, especially nasty, because what it implied is we're not going
00:46:56to hurt you, they're going to hurt the people who work with you.
00:47:00I don't have any fear because I think there's no worse death than this.
00:47:05That's to say, living in a place where you care about equality and justice for me is a
00:47:10tomb, it's a hell.
00:47:13This is the reason why I don't have any fear, and I think there's no worse death than this.
00:47:27I mentioned these threats on a Sunday mass at my sermon, where I said, may everyone be
00:47:35aware that this has happened.
00:47:37I want to make it very clear that nothing, absolutely nothing in this world is going to
00:47:44stop me.
00:47:45I want to make it very clear that this service is krypt when I'm asleep.
00:47:53efendim, às we're cutting sands and everything starts at my foot and Oh, my God, makes
00:48:10It's, like you see your след and clear.
00:48:26Father Christopher's latest effort at helping the Haitians
00:48:29gives his enemies an opportunity to attack him.
00:48:50For 15 years, Vicente lived in Bate La Redonda in a dark and tiny shack.
00:49:14After years of struggle, Father Christopher has been able to persuade the Dominican government
00:49:20to provide a few new houses in Bate Gautier.
00:49:27The first houses that we build were built with government money.
00:49:32It is the first time in the history of this country that the government has invested a
00:49:37dime in building a home for a Haitian.
00:49:42In the end, fewer than half the homes were given to Haitians.
00:49:46But now, Vicente lives in a three-room house, complete with indoor plumbing.
00:49:52It is the first time in the history of the Haitians.
00:50:22It is the only way I can do it.
00:50:24Although most of the houses at Gautier were given to Dominicans, word spreads that the
00:50:30priest is being unfair to the locals.
00:50:55Los vicini no pueden defender las cosas malas que hacen, las injusticias, la explotación.
00:51:00Entonces han acudido al expediente del nacionalismo, han tomado mucha gente buena, quizá incauta,
00:51:07que no sabe, puede ser que no le guste o le moleste, una presencia de teano quizá en un puesto
00:51:13de trabajo.
00:51:15Los vicini quieren exacerbar estos odios.
00:51:19Los organizadores de la protesta dijeron que continuarán en pie de lucha hasta que el
00:51:24sacerdote Christopher Harris abandone San José de Llanos.
00:51:27¡Los muertos y fuera el padre de aquí! ¡Fuera el padre!
00:51:32¡Fuera el padre! ¡Fuera el padre! ¡Fuera el padre! ¡Fuera el padre! ¡Fuera el padre! ¡Fuera el padre!
00:51:42¡Fuera el padre! ¡Fuera el padre!
00:51:45I'm very frequently scared, but it's something I've learned to live with.
00:51:50So I very seldom think about it.
00:51:54I don't think the times that I've experienced fear
00:51:59has ever changed my life in any shape or form.
00:52:26The turmoil in Father Christopher's parish attracts the attention of the media in the United States and Europe.
00:52:43Even Dominican reporters cover the story.
00:52:50In a room.
00:52:51Ingenio Cristóbal Colón, propiedad de la familia Vicini,
00:52:55han quedado seriamente dañados...
00:52:56Padre Cristo Férez nos escucha.
00:52:59Y que a través de él, otros como ustedes y los demás países,
00:53:04saben la realidad en que estamos viviendo.
00:53:07Y él ha sido como un Dios para nosotros, como un Mesías esperado,
00:53:11que nosotros, a lo largo del camino, a través de nuestra súplica, Dios ha sabido escucharnos.
00:53:16Porque gracias a él, ustedes hoy han visto con sus propios ojos.
00:53:20No es que le han dicho, sino han visto la realidad.
00:53:25Pero la atención internacional no ha protegido a Fr. Pedro Rucua.
00:53:33Como Fr. Christopher,
00:53:35he is under attack for defending Haitian cane workers.
00:53:40After he is physically assaulted,
00:53:42Amnesty International starts a campaign in his defense.
00:53:54Despite letters from human rights groups around the world,
00:53:58the Secretary of the Interior and Police
00:54:01refuses to take the complaint seriously.
00:54:12When Fr. Pedro finally meets with the Secretary,
00:54:16he is ridiculed in front of the press.
00:54:21The message is clear.
00:54:23Priests who advocate for the Haitians
00:54:26will have no guarantee of protection from the government.
00:54:32As events have unfolded in the past months,
00:54:36the sugarcane industry has been trying to pressure me
00:54:40and the people who work with me to basically back off
00:54:44and leave things the way they are.
00:54:59I think there is a real risk
00:55:04that to him, to Fr. Christopher,
00:55:08and to his close collaborators,
00:55:10he can happen at any time.
00:55:12He can come from the most insolent sector.
00:55:18He can come from a fanatic who is in his house,
00:55:20as I said in a moment,
00:55:22who can come from any of the sectors
00:55:26that are facing him in this moment.
00:55:31I am worried about him
00:55:34because I know that he is not going to stop.
00:55:38He is very much an all-or-nothing person.
00:55:42And if he has to hedge his ideals,
00:55:48I think it would be very sad.
00:55:50I would rather see him go out true to his beliefs
00:55:55than hang around not being true to his beliefs.
00:56:12The Dominican media rarely supports the Haitians.
00:56:17Consuelo Desfredel has two shows a day,
00:56:21and she is not shy about speaking her mind.
00:56:24Because he says that he is a descendant.
00:56:26Do you know what the voice is correct?
00:56:27He is a descendant of the kings of Spain.
00:56:30And that he is a descendant of the kings of Spain.
00:56:31And that no one can touch him.
00:56:32Listen to this thing.
00:56:34That is very interesting.
00:56:37I have been accused of every possible scene,
00:56:40crime, immorality that you could possibly conceive
00:56:43through a smearing campaign.
00:56:47But the church is fully aware that this is a staged campaign,
00:56:51and the bishop is not going to give in.
00:56:55The Vicini pressure the bishop to remove Father Christopher.
00:57:00But Bishop Azoria has stated publicly
00:57:03that he supports his priest.
00:57:07Why, if the Father Christopher,
00:57:09in his presence of kindness
00:57:11that he feels by Haitian brothers
00:57:14and that is not reflected in the same way in the Dominican Republic,
00:57:18why did he not go to Haiti
00:57:20to serve Haitians there in Haiti,
00:57:23who more need the service than what they are doing?
00:57:25The work of the Father Christopher in the Dominican Republic
00:57:29is a work of the church.
00:57:32The work of the Father Christopher as something individual.
00:57:37The fundamental reason of this is
00:57:41the economic and political interests
00:57:45of some sector of the country.
00:57:48The Azucarera is the only responsible
00:57:51of the problem that is happening.
00:57:53And in particular, in my panorquia,
00:57:56it is called the Vicini family,
00:57:58who is committed to get me out of this country.
00:58:02Father Christopher's comments rarely make the Dominican news.
00:58:08The people in the United States
00:58:08are very low.
00:58:09The journalists are very low.
00:58:11The people who don't have investment
00:58:14are so low.
00:58:17The people in the media
00:58:18and the journalists are afraid to lose the publicity.
00:58:21The people who are accused of
00:58:22the country against the international community
00:58:24with the issue of the supposed violation
00:58:26of the human rights of Haitians
00:58:29are going through a storm of criticism
00:58:31from different sectors of the country.
00:58:34These people have given their money,
00:58:37they've bought a lot of people,
00:58:39and they're afraid of them.
00:58:40They're afraid of them.
00:58:57I have about 700 square miles of a parish,
00:59:02with 60 villages and bates.
00:59:07I travel just about every afternoon
00:59:09to a different village to celebrate Holy Mass.
00:59:15Today, he has brought the American doctors to El Manguito
00:59:18to help his Dominican parishioners.
00:59:22This is not Abate, eh?
00:59:24These are Dominicans.
00:59:25It seems like people are a little better off here.
00:59:27No, no, no, no.
00:59:28They own the land.
00:59:29This is their property generation after generation.
00:59:33They're not rich, maybe they're just as poor.
00:59:35You can see the houses...
00:59:36But they take care of it.
00:59:37Yeah.
00:59:37And you own the place.
00:59:38How do these folks feel about the Haitians?
00:59:41Historically, there's a tremendous hostility toward the Haitians.
00:59:44Remember that this country never became independent from Spain.
00:59:48It became independent from Haiti.
00:59:50When the Spaniards left the island,
00:59:52they abandoned the island.
00:59:54Haitians moved in for 22 years.
00:59:56So their freedom, their independence, is from Haiti.
00:59:59So they view them as the aggressor, et cetera.
01:00:03And then, of course, there's the question of race.
01:00:05They see them, but they're just a little more black than they are.
01:00:08So they're just about the only people they can look down upon.
01:00:11Because they're poorer and blacker.
01:00:18I've been in many places in the Dominican Republic,
01:00:21and in many other developing countries.
01:00:23I've been taken to places where people have said,
01:00:25oh, look at this.
01:00:25Isn't this terrible?
01:00:26Isn't this tragic?
01:00:27Isn't this poor?
01:00:28And, you know, they really all pale in comparison to the Bateys.
01:00:38Father Christopher arranges for the American doctors
01:00:41to hold a clinic for the children of three Bateys.
01:00:52Rates of AIDS here are among the highest in the world.
01:00:56This is a real hot spot now, and the rates are increasing.
01:00:58Over half of the adults have tuberculosis,
01:01:01and we know that over a quarter of the children here
01:01:03have had tuberculosis.
01:01:06Many women die prior to giving birth or in childbirth,
01:01:09and we know that infant mortality in the children
01:01:12who die in the first month after birth or at birth
01:01:14is just incredibly high.
01:01:18And what's really tragic about those numbers
01:01:21is that we know how to treat all those conditions.
01:01:25We know how to prevent them, and we know how to treat them.
01:01:27And the treatments are simple, and they're cheap,
01:01:30and what's truly tragic is how very few of those simple,
01:01:34basic, life-saving interventions
01:01:36are getting out here to the people who need them the most.
01:01:42It's skin disease.
01:01:44It's bacteria.
01:01:46But this is also malnutrition.
01:01:55It's very bad.
01:01:55If you have a problem of the parents,
01:01:56When you suffer from the números of a accident,
01:01:59the sheriff's hospital doesn't give any harm to them.
01:02:07If you visit here, they don't give anything to them.
01:02:14They don't have anything to eat.
01:02:17They have to kill themselves like...
01:02:20It's to say that, unfortunately, even though I can't say it,
01:02:24one will see how the children die of hunger without being able to do anything.
01:02:40How are you?
01:02:46How are you?
01:02:46Any of you are sick?
01:02:49Yes?
01:02:50Do you see the doctor?
01:02:52But there is a doctor for old people, like you, and ugly.
01:02:58How are you, do you?
01:03:00Good, and you?
01:03:01Very good.
01:03:02Do you have children who are sick and want to take care of them?
01:03:06Yes.
01:03:06Well, look, bring me these children, we are going to take care of them.
01:03:10There are some doctors there.
01:03:12Yes.
01:03:13Go to my car, I'll take care of them.
01:03:15Okay, do you want to take care of them?
01:03:17Yes, take care of them quickly.
01:03:28Let's take care of them.
01:03:32Let's take care of them.
01:03:33Let's take care of them.
01:03:33Let's take care of them.
01:03:34Let's take care of them.
01:03:37Besides the help the church provides, there is almost no outside aid to the Haitian cane
01:03:43workers in this parish.
01:03:47Just three Peace Corps volunteers work in the vast Vicini plantations.
01:03:53I have never had a sit down conversation with Juan Bautista Vicini.
01:03:57Most of my work comes from, is with people at lower levels.
01:04:03The administrative head of this region of Bates, I work very closely with him,
01:04:08possibly closer than Father Chris does, because he's working with them at a very high level.
01:04:12Change this, pay them more, uphold your healthcare commitments, uphold.
01:04:16And my work here is about, really, my neighbors.
01:04:20How can we make their lives better tomorrow?
01:04:23So that's an easier question to go to them with.
01:04:26Okay, we want to do a garden.
01:04:28Can we get some seeds?
01:04:29That's an easier thing than change your entire system of existence.
01:04:38Father Christopher comes off as kind of proud.
01:04:41And that kind of, in my opinion, a little bit can be kind of brash.
01:04:44Like, who do you think you are?
01:04:46You know, aren't the issues more complicated than that?
01:04:48Don't the Vicini's have a right to, at least, have a sugar cane industry?
01:04:52Maybe they owe their workers more than they're giving them,
01:04:54but don't they have the right to be doing this?
01:04:56Or don't they have some rights too?
01:04:58And he's just so committed to the rights of the people,
01:05:04that sometimes it's easy to imagine he's not really that balanced.
01:05:11But I think at his core he is humble beyond anyone I've ever known.
01:05:18Because none of this is for him.
01:05:21He's in it to change the system that causes people to live in poverty
01:05:27while a billion dollar company profits off of it.
01:05:30This is the one that they're going to give me.
01:05:37I'm going to carry on to Luis Ángel.
01:05:51The children, the truth is that if their parents don't have documents, they can't even have documents.
01:05:58In terms of nationality, they don't have any documents, because they're not dominican or haitianos.
01:06:05They're practically, under the law, they don't exist.
01:06:12Another problem with not having papers is that they're trapped in the bate.
01:06:17If these people tried to go move to Santo Domingo, or even travel throughout the country, they're stopped every hour
01:06:23on public transportation,
01:06:25hauled into prison for however, you know, a week, two weeks, three weeks, and then deposited back in Haiti,
01:06:30not at their house, just across the border, wherever the military may see fit to deposit them.
01:06:37So it's a huge problem because it keeps people trapped here.
01:06:41A ver, dime tú, ¿a ti qué te gustaría ser cuando tú seas grande? ¿Qué te gustaría ser?
01:06:46Piloto, ¿qué te gustaría ser?
01:06:48Policía.
01:06:49¿Te gustaría ser un policía?
01:06:52¡Qué molesto!
01:06:53¿Sí?
01:06:54Otra cosa más.
01:06:55¿Y a ti qué te gustaría ser cuando seas grande?
01:06:57Trabajar.
01:06:58¿Trabajar?
01:06:58¿Pero dónde?
01:06:59¿En qué?
01:06:59¿Qué te gustaría ser?
01:07:02¿Trabajar en una oficina?
01:07:03¿Te gustaría manejar un carro?
01:07:05¿A ti qué te gustaría ser?
01:07:06Eh...
01:07:07Piloto.
01:07:08¿Un piloto?
01:07:09¿De avión?
01:07:10¿Sí?
01:07:16They're beautiful children, with no hope for a better life.
01:07:20Y let's do it noать.
01:07:34Bye.
01:07:51This is the residence of the administrator, Mr. Ricardo Hernandez, who is the ultimate
01:07:57responsible for the entire process from the Bateyes to the sugar mill. He has about 25 to 30,000
01:08:07people under his care, his responsibility. One of his main responsibilities is to make sure that the
01:08:14people that they bring across the border into the sugar mill, into the Bateyes, into the sugarcane
01:08:18fields, never leave. So at any cost, he has to make sure that these people remain here and do not
01:08:26escape because they've invested money in bringing them over for this particular purpose, this
01:08:33agricultural activity. Have you ever spoken to this man? I've spoken to him many, many times.
01:08:37What does he say? He basically hates me. He hates anybody that interferes with his business and
01:08:44with his job. He would be very happy that I went around everybody and he would be my best friend
01:08:50if all I did was celebrate Mass.
01:08:56Instead, Father Christopher and the church's lawyers have been organizing the Bateyes dwellers
01:09:01to stand up for their rights.
01:09:08By working together, the Bateyes have gained some concessions from the vicini.
01:09:16Leading today's meeting is Johnny Belisayre. Representing Batey Canepa is Yela Machaza.
01:09:27Well, it's my Bateyes and my job. Because before, when things were changing, when the workers arrive,
01:09:37when they kill them, they kill them. Now, no. I feel good for that, for the work of Sedail and
01:09:43the work of the father.
01:09:45Many things have changed. Thanks to you and many journalists who have come here, the company has decided to remove
01:09:55the
01:09:55escopetas to the campetres. Because before, we lived in the Bateyes and we were vigilant by the campetres
01:10:02who were walking with the escopetas. And that doesn't happen.
01:10:14One of the things that have changed is now people enjoy a freedom of movement. And I actively encourage
01:10:22the workers who are unhappy to leave.
01:10:43With the guns gone, Haitians can now leave the Bateyes. But without papers, they still risk arrest and expulsion.
01:10:54Many who dare to flee pass through the town of Los Llanos, where Father Christopher lives.
01:11:04Los Llanos has become the center of the Vichini campaign to have the priest expelled from the country.
01:11:13I would like the Father to leave. It would be a good wish for me.
01:11:18For me, not for the people.
01:11:21Let it go and let it go.
01:11:23Why?
01:11:24Why?
01:11:25Because they want to invade our undocumented undocumented people.
01:11:29For the people who are Haitians.
01:11:31We want to go out of here. I am a participant in this.
01:11:35I don't agree with anything about what they do.
01:11:42What we can attribute to the Vichini is that they are the ones who have brought the Haitians
01:11:46and they have their whole lives maltratándolos.
01:11:49Imagine when the assembly ended.
01:11:50The Haitians don't have any support.
01:11:53They forget that Haitians exist.
01:12:14I am Haitianizing this country and I am antagonizing Dominicans and Haitians.
01:12:20The ones who are funding the campaign, the Vichinis, who are funding this campaign,
01:12:25by accusing me of Haitianizing this country, are the only ones who cannot live without them.
01:12:34The likelihood of Father Christopher being forced out increases dramatically
01:12:39when news breaks about his colleague, Father Pedro Rupois.
01:12:45After 30 years of working with Haitian cane cutters, death threats and the lack of protection
01:12:51have forced Father Pedro to abandon his mission and leave the country.
01:13:18And now the company has made it clear to the Haitians that improved conditions will remain only as long
01:13:24as Father Christopher is there to protect them.
01:13:40Yes, but Father leaves.
01:13:42This is a phrase that the company continually repeats to the workers.
01:13:49Things are the way they are because he is here.
01:13:52But just you wait until he is gone.
01:13:55And we will remind you who is in charge of this.
01:14:22Day by day, protests mount.
01:14:24Day by day, protests mount.
01:14:26Day by day, protests gene in Baltimore due to the notary legs.
01:14:45Day by day, protests mount.
01:14:45Day by day, protestsлен across the field of education on Bahani events,
01:14:47events soon on a�
01:14:48day over and over.
01:14:49Day by days again to even speak.
01:14:52Day by day, protests atraves a pandemic,
01:14:55to take the issue as quickly as possible.
01:14:58Because if we don't get out of here, before the Wednesday,
01:15:01the cure of Christopher Harley,
01:15:03it could be a dangerous situation in our municipality.
01:15:18What's happening here in Los Llanos?
01:15:21What's happening here in Los Llanos
01:15:25and the Guaguas who have not been able to leave the people
01:15:27because of fear that something happens.
01:15:30No, because they're supporting the people.
01:15:32No, because they're supporting the people.
01:15:33Go to Los Llanos so that you can see
01:15:34if the owners of Los Llanos support them,
01:15:36even if the parents leave here.
01:15:38Do you know what they're paying for me?
01:15:41Let me show you a single idea.
01:15:43I don't have to show you.
01:15:46This cure, nor the vicini,
01:15:47no one has money to buy this one.
01:15:55I don't care.
01:15:56I don't care.
01:15:58To see how they were going,
01:16:00with the plates that have been used.
01:16:04That's how they were going.
01:16:05And they're all drunk.
01:16:07They're fighting against themselves.
01:16:09Who are they?
01:16:12Protestants, paid.
01:16:13Because they're paid.
01:16:15Who are they?
01:16:15Everybody knows who they are.
01:16:18They know who they are.
01:16:20They know that there's a lot of money running there.
01:16:24Then they come and meet a little group.
01:16:27They give them $200, $300,
01:16:30to each one for them to win.
01:16:33The vicini will give them $100,000
01:16:35to give them.
01:16:37They give them $20,000,
01:16:39and they give them $5,000.
01:16:39They give them $15,000.
01:16:42They're all over $20,000,
01:16:44and they're all over $1,000.
01:16:46They're all over $1,000,
01:16:47to each other.
01:16:50They're all over $100,000.
01:16:53They're all over $1,000.
01:16:58They're all over $500,000.
01:17:03They're all over $50,000.
01:17:07They're all over $5,000,
01:17:08more than $50,000.
01:17:09that I have not gone,
01:17:12is I can't just leave the battle to my parishioners.
01:17:22He has this sort of outward personality of what his mission is,
01:17:26but there is, you know, very much a human person behind
01:17:31with the pain of being very lonely in what he's doing,
01:17:36of being, feeling very misunderstood.
01:17:41Feeling inadequate in what he's trying to do.
01:17:45As a man struggling there, you know, very lonely, very often.
01:18:11Jusquina, Jusquina, Jusquina, Jusquina, Jusquina, Jusquina, Jusquina, Jusquina, Jusquina, Jusquina, Jusquina, Jusquina, Jusquina, Jusquina, Jusquina, Jusquina, Jusquina, Jusquina, Jusquina, Jusquina,
01:18:18Jusquina, Jusquina, Jusquina, Jusquina, Jusquina, Jusquina, Jusquina, Jusquina, Jusquina, Jusquina, Jusquina, Jusquina, Jusquina, Jusquina, Jusquina, Jusquina, Jusquina, Jusquina, Jusquina, Jusquina,
01:18:19Jusquina, Jusquina, Jusquina, Jusquina, Jusqu
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01:18:52In a country where people are working for almost nothing,
01:18:57the vicinis have spent an absolute fortune thus far.
01:19:02God knows how much they're ready to spend in the days to come
01:19:05in getting me out of the country.
01:19:23There is a massive demonstration planned for the streets of Los Llanos,
01:19:28and the possibility of a violent confrontation is high.
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01:20:15At the center of the rally is the television host Consuelo Despedal.
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01:20:31Haitians arrive from the Batailles to support Father Christopher.
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01:20:39They gather in the church with a crowd of Dominican supporters.
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01:20:59But outside, protesters assemble.
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01:21:50When you are the least, the more you deserve the love of God, because they need it more.
01:21:57Who is the one who needs the love of God, except the lost ear?
01:22:18If I give in, what am I saying to the worker?
01:22:22He says, you're the priest, you have all the means at your disposal, and you couldn't stand the pressure,
01:22:28but you come to us and you tell us to not be afraid.
01:22:33I think I would be a fraud if I took even one step back.
01:22:58Let's go!
01:23:06Let's go!
01:23:34One of the beautiful things for me is to see the support and the backing of the community.
01:23:39If the community had backed my accusers, I would certainly be history today.
01:24:27...
01:24:29Cameras, Cameras, Cameras.
01:24:35Cameras, Cameras, Cameras.
01:24:43might it be the worst?
01:25:13Oh
01:25:30Oh
01:25:31Pero bueno como está mi amigo
01:25:34Pero eso parece un pedazo de madera
01:25:41Muy bien
01:25:42Y usted no está picando canta
01:25:45The Bate is still a dangerous place
01:25:48Johnny has been fired
01:25:53He and his family have been threatened with eviction from their home
01:25:58But without legal status
01:26:00They are unable to go elsewhere to make a living
01:26:06And the attacks on Father Christopher continue
01:26:13I would like to be buried in the clandestine cemetery
01:26:15Because I think that's where I belong
01:26:18With those unnamed tombs
01:26:20Without even maybe a cross and a prayer
01:26:25These are my people
01:26:27I have come to live in solidarity
01:26:31With them
01:26:32And whatever happens to them
01:26:34I would like it to happen to me
01:26:36They are all in the family
01:26:46Oh
01:26:47How many have been saved
01:26:49With them
01:26:51And how many have been saved
01:27:02.
01:27:02.
01:27:02.
01:27:02Let's pray.
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