Comp AñEros De Lucha

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02:09This beach is part of the Public Balneário de Carolina.

02:14What is known as the Public Balneário de Isla Verde.

02:19They are common lands because they can't be of any individual, they are from everyone.

02:29Here is a particularity that this space was the terrain of the Balneário

02:35for reasons of cost-effective money.

02:39They stayed short in the restauration of the Balneário

02:42and they left this piece without restauration.

02:45And Mario wanted to manage it.

02:47They are fighting for saving this piece of land and this piece of land.

02:53Because the Hotel Marriott, the Hotel Marriott, Cole Yard Marriott,

03:00wants to build more hotels.

03:02They say that it is for the development of the economy of Puerto Rico.

03:08It is for enriching more.

03:11So, it takes away what belongs to the people, which is public, the Plays of the Balneário.

03:18Here, there was a corrupt corruption,

03:23through which they sold these public goods,

03:27which are unalienable.

03:29They sold them for 100 years to these two criollas

03:35to create a mega-project here,

03:39with hotels, hotels,

03:44multipisos, piscinas, casinos, etc., etc., etc.,

03:47and to employ all that.

03:48And so, we had knowledge and took the determination

03:52on behalf of Puerto Rico's people

03:53to build these lands while they were in the courts.

03:58It was decided to open a campamento of resistance

04:02to the privatization of the common goods.

04:05That was decided by the Friends of the Mar

04:09and other groups that joined us

04:13under the name of the Coalition Plays for the Pueblo.

04:20After a strict process telling me the rules

04:23and explaining the seriousness of the case,

04:26the Coalition Plays for the Pueblo

04:30gave me the opportunity of camping with them

04:33and to know their struggle from the inside.

04:38For the 2005, we were told

04:46of the residents of Carolina,

04:49of the environmentalists,

04:52that the Coria Armario had plans to build here.

04:58In the year 2005,

05:01I was a member of the government

05:04of the municipality of the municipality

05:05of the municipality of Carolina.

05:07While I worked in the committee,

05:10the Ms. Massa gave me a call

05:12a day and told me that

05:15we planned to build a condo hotel

05:18with the entrepreneur of San Juan

05:22for the company of Mario

05:25in the territory that belongs to the Balneario de Carolina.

05:29I investigated,

05:31I went to the Registro de la Propiedad

05:33and in the Registro de la Propiedad

05:59and there are other groups of people

06:01and they make a manifestation

06:03but they make it

06:05in the limits of the Balneario

06:06of the Isla Verde.

06:08And to me it was shocking

06:10why it was not in the Hotel Mario

06:12and I asked

06:19if we could do something

06:22and it gave us a favor.

06:24Tito Kayak and the Friends of the Mar

06:26called a manifestation

06:29that resulted in an incredible multitude

06:36including lawyers, architects,

06:40chiefs of federal agencies.

06:42It was a multitude

06:44and it was a manifestation

06:45about the land and the water.

06:48Around 200 people

06:50we reached the area of the sculpture

06:53to the other side of the Balneario

06:55and from there,

06:56some on the water,

06:57others on the sand

06:58and others on the bicycle

07:00on the street.

07:01We met 200 people

07:03in front of the Hotel Mario.

07:05It was excellent,

07:07it was beautiful,

07:07it was beautiful.

07:08The nature was with us.

07:10And by the rocks

07:12we went out

07:12and we ran out

07:13and we ran out

07:15and we ran out

07:15and we started.

07:17There was a small ramp

07:19that was already broken.

07:21We ran out to the right.

07:25We ran out,

07:27we ran out,

07:28we ran out,

07:29we ran out,

07:31we ran out,

07:32we ran out,

07:34we ran out,

07:36we ran out of the 투おっ.

07:39This is a protest

07:40that was very supportive

07:41and so we got that

07:47there were in the post,

07:49it took out

07:55to stop that construction. So that day, we decided that in the next morning,

08:03we were going to form a camp to avoid that Mario built around 300 and more houses,

08:14another multi-pit, it was also a complex of piscinas, everything in this area of the Five Cuerdas.

08:21Here I came, before I was working as integrator of networks,

08:27and in this fight I came to do a manifestation together with my colleagues.

08:33We never thought that the manifestation that we were going to do,

08:37and we were going to give an appointment,

08:39was going to turn on a dangerous path and so long,

08:43that we had to do six years ago last year.

08:46Since the 13th of March of 2005, there was this camp here,

08:54we started, I would say, five or six young people here that night,

09:00and in the next days, there were young people from the university,

09:06young people from other towns, also older people,

09:09retired people, a little bit of the civil society,

09:13and in general, like 20 or 30 people,

09:16but we were here for the first few months.

09:20How does the day begin here in the camp?

09:22The day begins in the camp,

09:24the first day that we wake up,

09:25we have to put coffee,

09:27so that when the rest of us wake up,

09:29they have their hot coffee.

09:31Then, I'm on the bike,

09:33I'm going to the supermarket,

09:34to look for bread,

09:36the jamone and the queso,

09:37that we always try to make it as fresh as possible,

09:39because we don't have refrigeration,

09:40we don't have anything that we can damage here.

09:44And then, during the hour of the meal,

09:46I'm going to look for the meat and what we need

09:48to do in the moment.

09:49We try to lose the least as possible,

09:52we don't have much to reach,

09:53so we have to be very measured with everything

09:58and try to avoid the loss.

10:00I don't like to lose the food,

10:02that for me is a sin.

10:03I don't like to lose the money.

10:05Basically,

10:06where do you come from?

10:08Where do you come from?

10:11Where do you come from?

10:11And you can buy food,

10:13and buy food as well that they consume here?

10:15Well, it comes from the donations

10:17that the people,

10:19the public that comes to the beach,

10:21gives a small donation

10:22that the heart will come from the heart

10:24and with that we support them.

10:25And also,

10:26the donations as well,

10:27as well as monetary money,

10:28they receive food,

10:31water...

10:31Yes, we bring water,

10:33four plates of potatoes,

10:35some rice,

10:36some rice,

10:37some rice...

10:37I really feel very happy

10:40with the support of the people,

10:41it has been very, very big,

10:43and it has not stopped falling.

10:46One of the things

10:46that here in the camp,

10:48it seems to be quite rewarding,

10:51is the way to get water,

10:52but they have managed to develop

10:55a system,

10:56and it is the one we have here.

10:58This system of water,

11:01recoging the water of the water

11:03that through a year and a few

11:05has worked very well,

11:06because we have the capacity

11:07to recog them

11:08like 1,000,

11:101,200 gallons,

11:11and they recogen

11:13the different tordes,

11:15from the different tordes

11:17we pass them to the cisternas

11:18and from the cisternas

11:20we pass them to the other

11:22of the cisternas

11:22depending on where the water is

11:24If we preserve the water

11:28properly,

11:29it must take a month,

11:30two months.

11:32With that,

11:33we recog our mats,

11:35with that,

11:36with that,

11:37with that,

11:38with that,

11:40it worked very well,

11:42thank God.

11:43I've stayed here,

11:44and I know how to live here,

11:46in the camp.

11:47It's not easy,

11:48it's not easy to live,

11:52but it's a joy,

11:53it's a food,

11:55to participate,

11:57to fight for a whole cause,

11:58which is this.

11:59I think this is a problem

12:00related to the delimitation

12:03of the maritime zone,

12:04that this is a responsibility

12:08that the Department of

12:10Natural Resources and

12:11Ambiental

12:12and that,

12:16lamentablement,

12:17they have a wrong idea

12:20of what should be

12:21the criteria

12:21to delimitate

12:22that zone.

12:23To delimitate

12:25the zone

12:25or to do a deslinde

12:26which means

12:29to divide

12:30the private part

12:31from the public.

12:33The marine zone

12:35is a public domain

12:37that belongs to

12:38all the puertorriqueans.

12:40They have an interest

12:41that there is no

12:42development

12:44in that part

12:45of the Playa

12:46of the Isla Verde,

12:48the Hotel Mario

12:49that is the last

12:49construction,

12:50and they expect

12:51to be built

12:52from there.

12:54Now,

12:54they are occupying

12:56a territory

12:56that the developer

12:58pays the rent.

13:01They are wrong,

13:02invocados

13:02to maintain

13:03that zone

13:03within the maritime zone.

13:05What happens

13:05is that there are

13:06different schools

13:07of thinking

13:07about where

13:09the maritime zone

13:11It is a very serious

13:13you have the responsibility

13:15to delimitate

13:17that zone,

13:17because if

13:19you don't do it correctly,

13:21you are

13:21either

13:23to the owner

13:25of the land

13:25to enjoy

13:26a space

13:27that belongs

13:28or to the

13:29Puerto Rico

13:30of the use

13:31and enjoy

13:31the area

13:35that belongs

13:36to the people.

13:37Therefore,

13:38you have to use

13:39the appropriate

13:40criteria

13:41to define

13:41that area.

13:43The professor

13:44Aurelio

13:45Mercado

13:45is a specialist

13:47with the program

13:48Sea Grant.

13:48He is a

13:49physical oceanographer

13:51and he has

13:52very clear

13:53that the criteria

13:54should be

13:56the hurricane

13:57because

13:59when the Spanish

14:00who wrote

14:02the law

14:03that is applied

14:03to Puerto Rico

14:05said

14:06that

14:07where

14:07the sea

14:08where the sea

14:08the hurricane

14:10would be used

14:11the hurricane.

14:12What they wanted

14:14to say

14:14was

14:15that

14:17in the areas

14:18like

14:19the Mediterranean Sea

14:20that is

14:21similar

14:21to Puerto Rico

14:22that are

14:23very small

14:25use

14:25the hurricane

14:27and

14:27in the

14:29ocean

14:29north

14:31of Spain

14:31that is

14:32used

14:33because

14:34the water

14:34varies

14:35many meters.

14:36Here in Puerto Rico

14:37is used

14:38a definition

14:39and is applied

14:41the criteria

14:43wrongly

14:43and is

14:44used

14:44the water

14:46that is

14:46privatizing

14:47public domain

14:49and causing

14:50problems

14:51serious

14:52because

14:52they are going

14:53to build

14:54there,

14:55there will be

14:55problems

14:56erosion,

14:58there will be

14:58loss of money

14:59to buy

15:00those lands

15:01and

15:02they are going

15:02to be privated

15:03to the people

15:03that belong

15:04to the people

15:04that belong

15:05to the people

15:06here

15:07is

15:07here

15:08is

15:08the

15:12the

15:13the

15:14the

15:16the

15:17the

15:18the

15:18we

15:20we

15:22we

15:22the

15:25the

15:26the

15:27y donde se planifica construir es fuera de la zona marítimo terrestre.

15:48Puerto Rico has a manual that establishes by law how the delimitation of the shoreline area should be done.

15:57But according to Mario Bosquez, the demarcation used by the developers to justify their project fails to use the correct

16:05criteria established on the manual.

16:09Ese documento no tiene los criterios para llamarse un deslinde de acuerdo a los estatutos

16:16que esté firmado por un agrimensor y que posteriormente lo firme un secretario

16:23porque son las figuras que el manual le da la autoridad para hacerlo.

16:29Pierde la autoridad cuando el documento que ellos certifican como bueno

16:34no sigue los estatutos que le da la autoridad para firmarlo.

16:38Cuando llego a un lugar para hacer un deslinde primero se identifica el área donde se va a hacer el

16:43deslinde

16:44que cubre esa área y entonces pues generalmente empezamos el trabajo.

16:51Normalmente yo utilizo un biólogo que vaya conmigo y me identifique la fauna y la flora

16:57que están en ese lugar para que así se me haga más fácil hasta donde llegan los terrenos mareales y

17:03hasta donde llega la costa.

17:13Estoy parado sobre el área donde la marea de abril cuando el año que se hizo el deslinde trajo las

17:24algas y las depositó hasta acá.

17:27Como pueden ver hay un relieve topográfico y más o menos se detiene aquí.

17:32Ustedes ven también estas rastreras aquí que aparecen en el manual de deslinde como indicadoras de zona marítimo terrestre

17:39que se extiende tierra adentro hasta el embreado que está utilizando el mario como parte de su estacionamiento.

17:49Aquí estoy ilustrando la media luna de pétalos blancos que caracteriza a este arbusto y su fruto.

17:57Se llama Skybola plumieri y aparece como planta indicadora de zona marítimo terrestre

18:04en el reglamento de bienes de dominio público conocido como manual de deslinde.

18:09Pueden ver la extensión de este arbusto que colinda con el embreado atrás y mire donde está a este nivel

18:17el hotel del mario.

18:21Actualmente el mario y su piscina pero su pared la puedes ver a través de las palmas hasta donde llega.

18:27Sin embargo los indicadores que tiene el departamento para hacer su deslinde llegan hasta acá atrás.

18:33¿Alguien tiene alguna duda de la evidencia física?

18:36Pues no tengan duda de que ellos digan que fue sembrado porque no fue sembrado.

18:41Hace años yo tomé fotografías de estos arbustos aquí y ese es mi testimonio.

18:46Si ellos pensaban que esa no era la zona marítimo terrestre,

18:50que la zona marítimo terrestre está al frente de donde ellos delimitaron el terreno,

18:56pues con el aumento en el nivel del mar probablemente llegue a la carretera.

19:02La comunidad científica ya ha comprobado que estamos teniendo un cambio climático

19:08y una de sus consecuencias es el aumento en el nivel del mar, lo que agrava el problema.

19:15¿Cá mate con el costo de este estado de sepa mystica?

19:21More than the issue of being inside the shoreline area,

19:25the space occupied by the camp,

19:28the opponents to the construction assured that the Government of Puerto Rico

19:31assign that area to be for recreational use.

19:36The same to what is known as the public beach of Carolina.

20:06The same to what is known as the public beach of Carolina, the public beach of Carolina, the public beach

20:15of Carolina, the public beach of Carolina.

20:29The public beach of Carolina, the public beach of Carolina, the public beach of Carolina.

20:37The public beach of LA.

20:43en los tribunales.

20:45Este es un proyecto donde el gobierno

20:47es el que busca

20:50al desarrollador

20:52para venderle

20:53un proyecto que incluye

20:55el que se haga eso allí.

20:57El propio gobierno es el que

20:59buscó a lo que le llaman el Mario,

21:01el Mario sería el operador, pero

21:03es el gobierno el que está haciendo la representación

21:05aquí de que eso se puede

21:07construir allí. Básicamente,

21:09en el proceso decisional, la junta

21:11de directores

21:12de lo que fue en aquel entonces

21:15la Corporación de Fomento Recreativo

21:18y luego

21:20la Corporación de

21:21Parques Nacionales, ignoraron

21:24leyes al otorgar el contrato.

21:26Primero, la misma constitución

21:28que declara

21:30que los recursos naturales tienen que

21:31estar protegidos. En el caso

21:34de las leyes, pues el Código Civil

21:35de Puerto Rico

21:37y jurisprudencia

21:39interpretando que los bienes

21:41públicos

21:43no pueden ser

21:45cedidos

21:46a manos

21:48privadas.

21:51Otra de las leyes específicas

21:52es la Ley sobre Política

21:54Pública Ambiental,

21:56una ley

21:57de 1970

21:59y también

22:01la ley

22:03que crea

22:04la Corporación, lo que era

22:06la Corporación de Fomento

22:08Recreativo

22:09que limita

22:11las facultades

22:13para poder

22:14arrendar terrenos

22:16de balneario.

22:17Eso entre

22:17otras.

22:19Este terreno

22:19se le transfiere al

22:20municipio de Carolina

22:21entiendo que

22:22durante la administración

22:24de Sila Calderón.

22:25ya este proyecto

22:26estaba

22:29encaminado

22:30cuando eso

22:31ocurre.

22:32El que

22:33está alquilando

22:35a la gente

22:37del barrio

22:37ahora mismo

22:38viene siendo

22:38el municipio de Carolina

22:39por un contrato

22:40de arrendamiento.

22:41En el 2005

22:42las personas

22:43que desean

22:45proteger

22:45este terreno

22:46triunfaron

22:47porque se anuló

22:48el contrato.

22:49Pero esa decisión

22:50después fue

22:52revocada

22:53por el tribunal

22:54de apelaciones

22:55porque no se dio

22:56oportunidad

22:56a estar en el pleito

22:58a otras

22:58empresas.

23:00Básicamente

23:01se determinó

23:01que el contrato

23:03sobre estas

23:04cinco cuerdas

23:05de terreno

23:05para permitir

23:06el proyecto

23:07que quiera hacer

23:07el Mario

23:08no se podía hacer.

23:09Era ilegal

23:10por ser

23:10esas cinco cuerdas

23:11parte del balneario

23:13y playa.

23:14Y es decir

23:15es un bien

23:15de público

23:16no enajenable.

23:17Entonces eso

23:18lo ganamos

23:18pero

23:19en el 2010

23:20entra una parte

23:21que se considera

23:22una parte

23:23indispensable

23:23que era el

23:25First Bank

23:25que no se le había dado

23:26el debido proceso

23:28de ley

23:28argumentan ellos

23:29y el caso

23:29se reabrió

23:30y el nuevo juez

23:31pues básicamente

23:32sin mirar

23:33nuestros argumentos

23:34viene y decide

23:34y la prueba

23:35que se les presentó

23:36y todo

23:36viene y decide

23:37el caso

23:38pues a favor

23:38del Mario

23:39esta vez

23:39con esa nueva

23:40parte

23:41indispensable.

23:41Ahora mismo

23:43el comité

23:44de vecinos

23:46está apelando

23:46la decisión

23:48del tribunal

23:49que le quitó

23:51la causa

23:51de acción.

23:52Yo no sé

23:53cuándo estarán

23:53viendo esto

23:54y estas cosas

23:55cambian de día

23:55a día

23:56pero en este

23:56momento

23:58el panorama

23:59legal se está

24:00aclarando

24:00de forma favorable

24:01para el

24:03desarrollador.

24:04Daña nuestro ambiente

24:05excluyendo a nuestra

24:07gente

24:07Daña nuestra

24:09gente

24:09excluyendo a nuestra

24:11gente

24:11Apelamos al tribunal

24:14el contrato

24:15es ilegal

24:16Apelamos al tribunal

24:18el contrato

24:19es ilegal

24:20Maradel y Playa

24:22Don Millú

24:22que se vayan

24:24Maradel y Playa

24:26Don Millú

24:26que se vayan

24:31Yo estoy aquí

24:33I'm here in representation of the residents of Isla Verde, in defense of our Balneario

24:39of Isla Verde, Carolina.

24:43It's been 30 years, or more than 30 years, that we use this Balneario.

24:48We have the right to go there when it is, to recreation, to think, to look at the sea,

24:55to get us to the sea, to do everything in a beach.

24:59We have six years that we are fighting because they want to remove the Balneario to sow cement.

25:07I'm a part of the colleagues and colleagues that we are working with the Clinic of Asistencia Ambiental

25:11and we work with the letter of operation that was presented to the tribunal.

25:14Our first confession, when we took the sentencing to the tribunal of first instancy,

25:19that what he did was validate the settlement of 99 years' contract on the Balneario.

25:24is that the contract is null, contrary to what he did in first instancy.

25:29We are alleging that a contract of 99 years' contract is anajenation of fact.

25:35What it means, in words, is that they are privating the people of Puerto Rico

25:39to make use and enjoy the beach, as they have been doing for 50 years or more years,

25:45and we are also saying that the tribunal of first instancy didn't want to look.

25:49He chose not to look at the evidence that we present in our resources.

25:53The joint resolution of the 2 of January of 2002,

25:56which passes the territory of the Balneario to be custodian,

26:02the Autonomous Municipal Municipal of Carolina,

26:04dictates specifically that they don't build hotels, condotels,

26:09and multi-stations, which is precisely the privatization project.

26:13We have seen a lot of justice that was committed.

26:16We have made the faith in the tribunal of first instancy

26:20to make us justice.

26:23And we will come, say it well,

26:25until the last consequences,

26:27until the last consequences,

26:29because the beaches are from the people

26:31and we are going to keep them from the people.

26:39The встречers did a station station

26:41which is currently part of what we claim for,

26:45which are five territories.

26:47Unfortunately, they did not get a time

26:50and they established a station station.

26:51We arranging some fingers to move the trails

26:56and keep taking off and proclaiming the station station

27:00in a moment, and it is very important to say that in that moment, I remember a level of

27:06repression very intense because there were francotiradores standing in the techo of the

27:13Hotel Mayor, of the Multi Piso, pointing to us. And that we were young, we were young,

27:20that was a lot of times. And also, how this alliance, how the state gave support to this

27:28private corporation.

27:30Sometimes, at the beginning, we had to face the police. That was quite strong. But that

27:43ends up motivating one more and giving one more force.

27:49If it were in another country, the people would do the same. They would defend their

27:55cost, as we are doing here.

27:59The police came here by using excessive forces. I sometimes don't understand the system.

28:09I would say that this is the result of a neoliberal policy that Puerto Rico is perhaps the first

28:17country in America in which it is projected. This project has been evaluated by the present

28:25governor of Puerto Rico, Luis Fuertuño, since he was secretary of tourism tourism.

28:32So, here there is a bipartisan support to a model of saqueo. Part of the development strategy

28:40that Puerto Rico has in reality is to put hotels, the casinos, the mafia, and a series of multinationales

28:50that are the ones that then supposedly are going to reject the process of development.

28:53For nothing, it is about a development that comes from the own people, that has a base

28:58real comunitaria, or that respect the natural resources. These are projects of 7 or 8 years

29:06of investment that finally the government, they are going to go to the quiebra and the

29:09government of Puerto Rico, let us, we are going to stay with the debt. The objective of these

29:15corporations is not the development of Puerto Rico. And the objective of the people who say that

29:21that they are important to Puerto Rico, that they sell their influence as president of the

29:25Supreme Court, like in the case of the Mr. Andrew García. It is lucrative. And that

29:31the mafia associated with the casinos, they leave the money from drugs.

29:37She is the Querendona of here, Arena, we have had a few animals here in the camp, she is the

29:44that we have left, our guardia nocturn. The day no nobody in the beach, but the night

29:50everything that is moving from the edge of the beach, from the front of the camp, they

29:54kill us. And I came here, donated by some friends, because we had one called Nos Cayucos,

30:01and apparently and allegedly, the police were hiding around there at midnight to

30:07kill us, and the dog was killing us. And then they took us, they took us, they took us.

30:12We have two icons of what is the Playa Plays for the People. Let us talk a little bit about

30:19the origin

30:19that they have and what they represent for you.

30:23This Ceiba has, as you very well say, symbols, right? For us it represents a lot because we

30:31call him Tony Croato, a friend of whom we all know his history already, who passed a better

30:37life, and he represents for us the firmness, the firmness of character of that gentleman.

30:45We also have here the wagon, which was a donation that made by some friends, and other friends,

30:51we use it as a store, and generally, other artists, who donated us their art to represent

30:59in him the mural that is shown here, which represents the struggle that we have on the

31:04beach.

31:05And the flag that is there in front, too?

31:07The flag, too, like in all places, we have to have a flag for us to receive as it is

31:13due to the patria, very beloved.

31:16Many people do not know it, but people live here every day, for, with their bodies and for

31:22their physical integrity, to preserve that piece of land, of a development and a desparrame

31:29urban dismayed. It is not like this beach, right? That the same nature, it holds us. There

31:36are human beings, Puerto Rican people, of all the ideologies, of all the creeds, united by one

31:42single film.

31:43Hace 5 years ago I was here, when I arrived for the first time, and I had seen this camp,

31:49and I admired it, I had seen it through the news, I had seen the space, and I had always

31:54been here when I was a child, when I was younger, and I always admired it and I said wow,

32:01how

32:01that people fight for that piece of land.

32:03They have detained the project there while the issue is directed in the courts. It is not

32:08because they are there with the cassette.

32:11All, the Puerto Rican people, we must make a recognition of the effort that have made the

32:18boys and the boys here in the camp from the beginning, defending, living here for 6 years,

32:25here with the sun, without water, without light, to defend this place, so that it is not

32:31the building. If not, if it was done in this camp, already would have been built here, or

32:38if it was filled with this bridge, this space, if one sees it, one says it is possible, how

32:45is possible that we can put it here?

32:48I know that there are some who come and leave from the camp, there are some that are fixed,

32:53like you, who are always living here in the camp,

32:56and who have been living for several years.

32:59How many people are there?

33:01The camp is composed of a lot of people.

33:05We are the Coalición Playas for the Pueblo.

33:07We are a lot of groups.

33:09But when we are living here,

33:11we have five colleagues

33:13who represent each of these groups.

33:16We can be more than 300 people in the Coalición.

33:20Therefore, we have casetas of those who are the natural residents,

33:24who are the most of the time we are here.

33:26There are other casetas,

33:27and there are other people who can come to the Coalición,

33:31who belong to the Coalición.

33:34They may be the flotants that we call them,

33:37because of their personal obligations,

33:38they cannot be like us here all the time.

33:42But in general,

33:43we have five to six people

33:44that we live in the camp daily.

33:47Here, in general,

33:49we can't allow the public to come to camp.

33:51There is a committee that is responsible for evaluating

33:54the people who want to go to a weekend,

33:58one night or two,

34:00with casetas.

34:01Because of legal issues,

34:04we can't allow them.

34:06But we have to be careful

34:08who can come and put a caseta,

34:11because it can hurt us

34:12what we are carrying in the tribunals.

34:14The most difficult thing has been

34:16the people who come with false intentions,

34:18who come and show us

34:22a face of coming to help.

34:25And that has happened in six years

34:27with quite frequently.

34:31only those who have been left,

34:35those who have been cold and mosquitoes here

34:38for the most part of the time,

34:40those who are living in the winter,

34:43practically,

34:45only they are those who have been left,

34:48defending the place,

34:50adapting to extreme conditions,

34:54and so we are going to know who is who.

34:57Those are the environmentalists.

35:00And in all types of fights,

35:03I don't remember if it was Freud, Marx,

35:05Pacunino, Lenin,

35:07explained clearly

35:08that in all types of fights

35:11these elements are contra-revolucionaries.

35:13The environmentalists

35:14that we are referring to now,

35:18that you explain,

35:20that if the contractors say

35:21that so much money

35:23they leave,

35:23and this,

35:24they are the plus.

35:26And it is a problem

35:26that will continue to exist,

35:29and with which we have to deal with

35:31all the people who see involved in this,

35:33because it causes a lot of damage.

35:35Sometimes there are two or three elements

35:39within the 50 that we have,

35:40and they are the discordant notes

35:43and it affects our image.

35:46I have gone through a process of education

35:51being in the legislature,

35:53where the responsible citizens

35:55have worried about coming

35:56to educate legislators

35:58about why one has to contribute

36:02to certain causes.

36:04One of the things

36:05that I really impressed

36:06about the environmental cause

36:07and that I have understood

36:08is that the natural resources

36:11once you tap a river,

36:12once you build a building

36:16on a beach,

36:17and you don't have the pants

36:18as they have in other countries

36:19to destroy it,

36:22that the natural resources

36:23are not for everyone.

36:24I have several friends

36:25who travel to Costa Rica

36:26with a lot of frequent

36:28and they brought me a t-shirt

36:29that says,

36:30the country knows

36:31that I collect t-shirts

36:31when we tap the last river,

36:34when we kill the last fish,

36:36when we can't go to the beach,

36:38we will realize

36:38that we can't eat money,

36:40we can't eat cement.

36:44The constructions close to the coast

36:47have a lot of environmental impacts

36:50that affect the ecological behavior

36:53of the zone,

36:54and us too.

36:56One of the most significant impacts

36:59is how they destroy coral reefs.

37:07I represent a organization

37:09called Arrecife Pro-Ciudad.

37:11Arrecife Pro-Ciudad

37:12because they are the arrecifes

37:13who protect the city.

37:15Number one,

37:16we will put it

37:17for the protection of the island.

37:19The arrecife

37:20is a barrier

37:22that is below the water

37:24and that is,

37:25that is,

37:25that is a part of

37:27the coral,

37:27rocks, stone, dead, dead, alive, that is growing, it is a sky that is not only there,

37:36but it is growing, it is multiplied, and that contains the oil, for this reason, the logic

37:43tells you that if you hold the oil, then it protects the island, and there is no erosion

37:49like what we are seeing in places where there is no reef, or the reef is dead.

37:54Look, when there is a cyclonic sea, it increases the energy of that sea, and makes it less impact

38:03the coast, that is less waste, that is less damage, that is less damage, and that is less impact

38:10the life and the property.

38:11We can think, look, here are a lot of condominiums and hotels that are in the marine marine areas,

38:20well, look, if we have past mistakes, worse is to continue to commit the same mistakes.

38:28We already see all the problems that have brought those hotels and those condominiums,

38:33because then you start to say, look, the condominium is falling, I have to put a wall here.

38:38So the reef is very important in that aspect.

38:41So, in another aspect, what creates a reef, the reef has also to do with the birds, the

38:49aves marinas, that they feed themselves from the peces that are there.

38:52So, it has a relationship between the island, the sea, what healthy can be the submarine, and the

39:04protection that they have towards the coast.

39:06So, it is very important to preserve the five-cuerdas for the balnear, as it was proposed

39:13from the beginning, and at the same time, to preserve the area of the beach.

39:20Well, in fact, that you see what you see passing by there, I would prefer not to pass, because

39:25at that height, it happens to the desobes of tinglares, something that we haven't covered

39:30until now.

39:31Let's try to visualize this, all Isla Verde, all Isla Verde, all Isla Verde, not only

39:37the five-cuerdas.

39:38All Isla Verde, all Isla Verde, hace 40, no, no, hace 60 years.

39:43Hace 60 years, here there was nothing, nothing.

39:48From here to the Hotel San Juan, which was a small building, here there was the desobes

39:54de Carey, desobes de Peje Blanco, and de Tinglar, obviously, that we still have.

39:59The Carey and the Peje Blanco, we don't see much, because the Carey and the Peje Blanco

40:29are the illuminations with the buildings that are in Carey, a wall or the illuminations

40:36that they despis, they don't know where to go.

40:39The illuminations is a serious problem, especially with the turtles.

40:44The turtles are disorienting, if they see light, they abandon that area and they don't use it

40:52to get into the mountains.

40:54And another problem that there is with these buildings is the contamination by the sun, which

40:59is not talked a lot.

41:01And it's a contamination by the sun, when you do a high building, at the shoreline, when

41:07there is a sun, you don't give the sun to the beach and the sand is not hot enough to

41:15get

41:17out of the sea.

41:27These leather bags are endangered species, as well as the manatees that are also found in

41:37the area of Isla Verde.

41:41Both creatures are constantly threatened by the uncontrolled developments.

41:52Those desastroyistas are, in this case, desastroyistas criollo, Tati Ferrer and Gio Andrew.

41:59They are two desastroyistas, recognized.

42:02Tati Ferrer was caused and declared ambientalmente criminal by the Office of Ingenieros in the

42:11Tribunal Federal, by the inventories that he made to tap the Caño San Antonio next to

42:16San Juan Bay Marina.

42:17We spent a few months camping, we were campers, in full sense, with cassette and everything.

42:25Yes, yes.

42:26I believe that my cassette is still there, because I left it.

42:29It was interesting, those first days, because the attention was a floor of the piel, and

42:38then the hotel, they said that they were going to build.

42:42Apart from that they reduced the ecological value of the area, putting the lights towards the

42:47sea, in a zone that is a zone of tingler.

42:50As soon as we remove those lights, there comes a tingler in the night.

42:55Yes, because those animals do not exist.

42:57Those animals are inside a TV.

43:00They are inside the TV.

43:02But here they are not.

43:04And if there is, they open them.

43:05Like it, you know, it will have been around two minutes and now then, if that is, a没打

43:08figure on it. They say

43:15they try a bubble. And then

43:18there is a gap of little more and more, as you can see that. When you've

43:27made it up to normal

43:33compared to how it is now, which is a natural forest, with special trees, with agriculture.

43:41Dada the situation in Puerto Rico and the whole world,

43:46but in our case, we depend on everything that comes from outside,

43:49because our agriculture has been in a process of losing, little by little,

43:54and it's time to recover that agriculture.

43:57If you can do it here, everyone talks about agriculture in the beach,

44:01it means that you can tell that there is agriculture in any place.

44:05Here we have papaya, there are several trees here that you can take,

44:09we have this tomato that I just collected, and cinnamon,

44:13we have this, like the albaca, which has a medicinal function,

44:22but also the famous pest.

44:25There are medicinal trees, where there is the lemon, there is the orégano brujo,

44:33and there are always medicinal trees and food,

44:37there are guingambos, there are lechugas,

44:41so that there are several important things in terms of alimentation

44:44that are manifest here.

44:46The boys and the boys have done excellent work.

44:49They are planting there.

44:50They have that vineyard that when they come to the tribunal

44:53and tell us, ah, those are anarchists there,

44:55what there are, and those desordinated.

44:58And we say, look, they are ordinated people,

45:02who want to make the law,

45:03and they have planted there,

45:06and they have planted there,

45:07and they have made the area recover the ecological value

45:09that the demanders have made to lose.

45:12From the beginning, there was a gestation of restoration

45:19and planting,

45:22as to make a note,

45:25that this was of nature,

45:27and the people planted it.

45:29We have seminaries of agriculture here,

45:32to plant in the abominations,

45:35we also work with the germination,

45:39we work with the recycling,

45:42but my purpose here is to forest the area

45:46with indigenous plants and native plants

45:50and also work with the fruits and vegetables

45:55for their own consumption.

45:58Everything that has been planted here until the moment,

46:01apart from that we have helped them,

46:03and we have planted it,

46:05it has been a community work,

46:07because it has been with different groups.

46:09We maintain the garden

46:11through the collective work.

46:14The one that can now rip,

46:15is to riege,

46:16if I don't have any other task,

46:18the one that can germinate plant,

46:19the one that can germinate plant,

46:20the one that can germinate plant,

46:23the one that can germinate plant,

46:24the one that can germinate plant,

46:25and then we will resembrate the garden

46:26and so on the next step,

46:28every companion that we have to provide

46:29a little bit of time to the garden.

46:31And you feed them?

46:33Of this.

46:34Of this.

46:35Now we have plants that,

46:37to tell you something,

46:38what are the species to cook,

46:41we all take away from here,

46:42from the home garden.

46:44Here,

46:45everyone who wants to come to grow,

46:47can come to grow.

46:48Here,

46:48we are educating them,

46:50how to defend their space,

46:52but their space we are defending

46:54with the teaching of how to cultivate

46:57to survive.

46:59They have developed different projects,

47:02educational projects,

47:03they have given workshops,

47:05of all types,

47:06of titeres,

47:07of how to arrange bicycles,

47:09of kayak,

47:10of nado,

47:10of surf,

47:12of...

47:13the list is interminable,

47:16of theater,

47:16here they have given us

47:17of theater.

47:18I had the experience of doing

47:20the first performance,

47:21the playas for the people,

47:24that was the first,

47:25the second,

47:28in secuelas,

47:29and it was a very good experience,

47:31because we were able to

47:33take the voice

47:34and say that,

47:36not to the privatization

47:37of the playas,

47:38that this is a beautiful place.

47:39The experience was enriching,

47:41really,

47:42and I know that many of us

47:44listened to,

47:44and I know that,

47:45through art,

47:46as we are doing,

47:47a lot of people

47:48get faster.

47:50I've been here with art,

47:52I'm talking about my experience.

47:55This is a place,

47:56this is a place,

47:57to the camp that I had

48:00in the school of artes

48:01plastic,

48:03with a group of companions,

48:04because they wanted to

48:05be in the school of artes

48:05plastic,

48:06they wanted to close the

48:062012,

48:07but the lack of

48:09funding,

48:10it was a lot of

48:11the friends of the mall

48:12were coming to our camp,

48:14they started to need

48:15people who wanted

48:16to watch them,

48:17who wanted to watch them,

48:19who wanted to watch them

48:20that the people

48:20know what is happening.

48:22All these causes are very, very inspired us and it is something that we need to manifest ourselves and take

48:31advantage of.

48:32I am constantly making messages, hojitas sueltas, mariposas, we have made a few logos for different activities of the camp.

48:44The space has had a transformation, so to speak, in which at first we were a camp of protest against

48:54the privatization of the goods of the people.

48:58To see that and the prolongation of the time we have been here, we decided to occupy the space,

49:07but at the same time we have taken advantage of the community and the Puerto Rico as well.

49:15We have developed and carried out a lot of activities.

49:20We are taking advantage of this space for the people, not a personal advantage for us.

49:27I think what they are doing in this camp is very important.

49:31Number one, because they are not only responsible for the situation of natural resources.

49:34I went there to take a civil disobedience course that was given to the university students for the funeral of

49:44Puerto Rico.

49:45We thought that since they were going to incur in that practice of civil disobedience,

49:51we brought people who have practiced civil disobedience in their context,

49:57and we understood that since they are going to practice, that they are going to practice properly.

50:02Agents, agents! Avereceesewoch gifts and come from the other side of the house!

50:05If you are wrong, you are he paying?

50:07You are worried about yourself, the fact that you have kids, you you have children…

50:11but you wanted to come to university. That's why you are afraid you are the way you are.

50:15Because you are coming to see you in the other side of the house!

50:17We want us to take a silver 의 body and take care of the other side of the house!

50:24I think it's a symbiosis, right?

50:27The campamento brought us a lot of our first organizational experiences

50:33and at the same time the students gave us the work that we needed for those beginnings.

50:41It's a organizational space that has served us as a reunion space

50:45in many occasions in which we can't meet in the university.

50:47They come here to make an approach so that we give them the place

50:52and we say that we don't give anything, that they want to use the place that is their place.

51:28If this is done, the Tribunal is adjudicating that this project can be done and that it is valid,

51:37the development is valid, the developer has to submit the project for approval.

51:44It would be a disaster for the country that it would be valid,

51:47that it would be able to remove the land to a barnyard for private purposes.

51:54We hope that the Tribunal adjudicate that this contract is not valid,

52:01and if it is not so, there will be proposals.

52:05But the most important thing, given the current situation of Puerto Rico and the Judiciary,

52:11is that, at the same time, the initiative and the good organization of the people

52:18is what will be fundamental.

52:19I hope that our struggle will be achieved in all ways,

52:24because I think it is a very important struggle,

52:27both for us as for all the other beaches,

52:30that are also in danger and in danger.

52:33And the people must wake up and defend what is theirs,

52:36that is what we are doing here.

52:37Here, what we are doing here is simply to fight for the rights of the people

52:45and promote a environmental future.

52:49If there were no one here, they would have built the Hotel Mario

52:54and a private beach, another private beach.

52:57Well, the few left here, because all the people want.

53:03And the sea will be taken.

53:07Because they will take the sea of the sea.

53:09All those hotels, Caribe, Egypt, La Colla,

53:13all those hotels, all those condominiums,

53:15all those, they will go because the sea will be thrown and they will be thrown.

53:18They will take the sea of the sea.

53:19There is no one, but our nature will be taken from it.

53:24And this city will take a rainbow.

53:24Here, if they make a simple thing,

53:26there are many beautiful things to do

53:29so that they will be able to make public spa,

53:31And then, chucurum, all the casetas are gone.

53:38I understand that the commitment that I have with this cause and with the cause

53:44that we are carrying on, it prevents me from leaving this place.

53:50I understand that it is more important what I am doing today

53:53and it fills me more of excitement and emotion,

53:56and I understand that this is my place,

53:59and that later this will end someday

54:03and from here I will start to take things to do.

54:08It is an exchange, because there is an immense internal satisfaction.

54:14That satisfaction covers all those supposed sacrifices,

54:20including the economic well-being.

54:25And, nothing, I am very proud of being here.

54:30I hope to be effective in my work here.

54:36I hope to be effective in the sense of being an example

54:44for the rest of the tribe that is coming,

54:50especially for the younger generations,

54:55after being veterans of a lot of fights of this type.

54:59And, nothing, life continues.

55:22When I tell you about the story of my father, the Inti and the Sun,

55:30Para salvar esta tierra envió su corazón

55:38Para sembrar la esperanza en este mundo lleno de caos

55:48Mujer, amiga, hermana, acompáñame al jornal

55:57Salvaré la tierra, yo salvaré

56:04Lucharé por tus hijos, yo lucharé

56:13La sangre tiñó las manos de quienes escribieron la historia

56:21No borrarán de la gente el pasado latente y lejano

56:30En una mano un cuchillo, en la otra fue un signo de paz

56:39Nos traicionaron un día, una vez, en el futuro jamás

56:48Salvaré la tierra, yo salvaré

56:55Lucharé por tus hijos, yo lucharé

57:16Lucharé por tus hijos, yo salvaré

57:43Lucharé por tus hijos, yo salvaré

57:47You

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