00:00The farmers and the indigenous Wayu have been fighting for years to keep the arroyo
00:05bruno that alimenta their crops. But these fertile lands are also rich in carbon
00:12térmico. And trying to avoid that their river becomes a carbon mine led to them and their families,
00:20threats that came to their phones. After they were destroyed by the police,
00:26anti-motines, the Ejército and operators with motosierras.
00:30My house was destroyed by the smart. I have almost 10 years been working here.
00:35I am also displaced from the violence and now they are displaced from here again.
00:40Here only the destroyed lands and the abandoned cultivations that the farmers had
00:46thanks to the support of the World Food Program.
00:50When I arrived, I saw my house all over the place.
01:01Although the threats were anonymous, the disillusionment was made by the
01:06forces of the country. The farmers suspect that the mining company is behind these actions.
01:21The miners, Cerrejón, said that they were not behind the disillusionment and that they
01:26don't have any interest in these neighboring properties of the arroyo bruno.
01:30Where do they offer the money? Cerrejón.
01:33There are the prices of San Isabel. Who bought it? Cerrejón.
01:36Where they bought it with this same land.
01:38So, they are the ones who pay to Corpo Guajira to buy the land,
01:41and Corpo Guajira does the screen. That's what we have here in Colombia.
01:43We don't have much to lie. The money is the one that sends.
01:47The communities wayu temen, since decades ago, that the mining activities
01:52termine by quitarles the arroyo bruno.
01:58Perder the arroyo means death. The extermination of the community, of my roots, of the
02:08feeling of us as Guajira, as a community and as a legacy that my grandfather gave me.
02:14Colombia is one of the main producers of carbon in the world.
02:18The demand for the mineral has increased in the last few months,
02:22which resulted in record prices for carbon carbon.
02:25Indigenous communities denunciate that few people know what is hidden behind the carbon
02:31colombian.
02:33Behind the carbon colombian there are deaths,
02:36hunger, there is sadness, there is pain, there is threats, there is violence, there is violence,
02:44there is no doubt.
02:44In the task of reclaming responses by the miner,
02:47participants were European politicians who visited the communities and then
02:52joined the puerta closed with the company.
02:55As a group of parliamentarians, we will be able to take the Glencore with the questions
03:01that we didn't have answered by Sarah Hohn.
03:04There are massive problems. The disconnect between the communities and the company are enormous.
03:12Nobody in Europe, and I include myself, nobody in Europe does the wrong path.
03:19You know, every time you turn the lights, every time you turn the lights, every time you turn the
03:22fire, every time you turn the lights, every time you turn the electricity, where you turn the
03:26chain?
03:26For many of us, the chain begins here, so it was a very abrupt awakening.
03:35Recently, the Colombian government confirmed that it will allow the
03:39miners to intervene in the Arroyo Bruno.
03:41To comply with this disposition, the struggle of the farmers and the indigenous
03:45Wayu will have been in vain.
04:17For more information, visit www.fema.org.au.
04:18For more information, visit www.fema.org.au.
04:21For more information, visit www.fema.org.au
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