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Attention!

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Thank you very much.

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We are all waiting

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to see what the President

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wants to do.

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Sovereignty is at stake here.

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It's not easy to live here.

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Everyone thinks we come here,

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have it cosy

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and a happy life.

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No, life is hard here.

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Yes, we know.

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Life is hard.

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I invite you all,

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the president, everyone.

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Caputo,

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everyone who
wants to come

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and see the
factories here.

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This story

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takes place at
the end of the world,

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where few dare to go

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or at least stay.

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Land of fires,

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of myths and legends.

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Of monsters and shipwrecks.

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Of sailors and rebels.

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We are in the city
of Rio Grande

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Its inhabitants sleep

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on the cold shores

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of the Argentine sea

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facing our Malvinas.

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Río Grande
is the heart

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of the most powerful
industrial technology hub

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in Argentina

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and the southernmost
in the world, of course.

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The island manufactures

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600,000 mobile phones
per month

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and 200,000 televisions.

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This... this regime,

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is very costly
for Argentinians

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in terms of money

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and in terms of well-being.

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This regime is a fraud.

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It's a fraud
on decent Argentinians.

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The island became
industrialised

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in the 1970s

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with Law 19,640,

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a regime to promote
industrialisation

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that favours companies

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that invest there.

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Tax and customs benefits

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which offset
the logistical costs.

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Thus, large local companies

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partnered with Japanese

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or American brands.

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Then with Chinese ones.

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Today, the three
owners of the island

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are: Mirgor, ]
owned by the Caputo family

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Newsan,
owned by Rubén Cherñajovsky,

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and BGH,
owned by the Garfunkel family.

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On the Patagonian steppes

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ravaged by the icy wind,

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a powerful
industrial park was born.

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The dialogue with
Javier Milei's government

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is a tremendously
fluid dialogue,

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about everything
that's going on.

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We are

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absolutely aware

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of what is happening.

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It is true

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that business owners have

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tax benefits,

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but we don't

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benefit from this...

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the famous trickle-down effect,

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just doesn't happen.

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People exaggerate,
don't they?

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In short, what they do

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Tierra del Fuego is to
assemble products

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that come unassembled
from abroad,

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to sell them
locally

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with a very large amount

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of tax benefits,

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very large.

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They try put us down
by saying

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that we are
only assemblers

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or that we only
put in a few screws.

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But we do everything
in there.

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The blank
circuit board

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has nothing
on it yet.

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It's a cutting-edge
industry

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that you don't
find in

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many places
in the world.

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There are
very few places

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that have industrial parks

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that are so
well established

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and with technology
that competes

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in the top league,
so to speak.

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On one side,
the business chamber

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led by three large groups

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on the other,
more than 10,000

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male and female
metalworkers

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organised in the
UOM (Metalworkers' Union)

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And more, because
an entire town

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revolves
around them.

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The National Government

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is going to
eliminate

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import tariffs
on mobile phones.

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In May 2025,
the Government announced

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a measure that
threatens to destroy

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thousands of jobs.

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The response was

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an indefinite strike

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that sparked a debate
in the entire country.

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Benja, stop getting
your feet wet!

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When I hear

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that some
media outlets say

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that we live

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at the expense of the
rest of the country...

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The truth is that

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it's offensive
first of all

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and secondly,
the truth is that

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honestly, my salary isn't

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taking anything
away from anyone.

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This discussion

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is much deeper.

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It stems precisely from

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a request from the
International Monetary Fund

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which was
immediately followed

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by an announcement

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from the Southern Command,

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that they want to
establish a military base

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here in Tierra del Fuego.

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We manufacture,

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televisions

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and when I leave work

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I have to
drive for Uber

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It makes you angry
that you're

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locked up in the
factory for nine hours,

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then you go home
and have a bath

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you drink some mate
and go out again,

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work until eight

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or nine,
then get home.

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You have to cook,

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and then you're
almost dead.

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The idea is

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to solve the situation

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with calmness and reason.

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When the pirate Magellan

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arrived here
500 years ago,

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he saw a string of
fires along the coast.

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He noted it
on his maps,

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Land of the fires.

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These were from
the Selk'nam,

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the original inhabitants
of the place.

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Those fires of resistance

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continue to burn today.

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It is happening in Tierra del Fuego.

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The government has created

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a unified police commando

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to contain any
potential disturbances.

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The workers took
to the streets.

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The entire province
of Tierra del Fuego

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is on strike.

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Total paralysis.

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They have
practically paralysed

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the province.

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The strike will
continue indefinitely,

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until our demands,

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are met.

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You have to see
what type of people

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they are...

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Come and see
what people do here,

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we are a lot
of families,

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we all depend on work.

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Where are we going
to work here?

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Explain it to me.

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In these ten days,

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we recognised ourselves
as comrades

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and decided

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to see it through
to the bitter end.

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Those were cold,
rainy days.

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It snowed.

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It didn't matter,

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we were there

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supporting the cause.

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It was very cold.

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The workers

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are worried.

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It's very stressful
because they don't know...

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Taking action
so that both

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the national government

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and the provincial government

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and the companies
understand that

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we need to have

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job security

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for our right

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to continue living
with dignity

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in Tierra del Fuego.

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We gather here

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during the morning shift

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with the fire drums
and everything...

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we stayed there

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with camaraderie,

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mate, biscuits and so on.

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A small assembly

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around 10, 11 o'clock
in the morning,

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and then, well...

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The second shift came
at 3 in the afternoon

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and kept going.

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I mean, as co-workers,

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we're all

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very supportive

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They organise
soup kitchens,

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And it is

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beautiful, too,

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because we're
all united

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and fighting
for the same thing.

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There was a
lot of empathy

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among colleagues
from other plants

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to support us.

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Who would have thought
that Edu can cook...!

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And we are willing

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to do whatever
it takes.
226
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We're not ruling
anything out

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and we will go

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to the bitter end.

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Those ten days in May,

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with the lines stopped

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and the pallets burning,

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made it clear who
moves that monster.

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The business contracts

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of the big brands

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were beginning
to be jeopardised.

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Will the goods

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be assembled and ready
by the agreed date?

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They asked,

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but no one knew...

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On the 21st of May

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almost all trade unions

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joined in a provincial strike.

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It was nine degrees below zero.

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But the march was historic.

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It was a very clear message

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to the political
and economic powers

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not only of the country,

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but also of the province.

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Teachers and civil servants

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who joined en masse,

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have been fighting
for a long time

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against Governor Gustavo Melella's
austerity measures

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It was very important because

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it was the first time
in many years

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here in Tierra del Fuego,
that the whole island

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was practically
brought to a standstill.

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Everyone followed the
call to strike,

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because obviously

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in every family

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there is a metalworker,

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a neighbour, a son, a brother.

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When we saw the support

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from the rest of the city

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at the provincial level,

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the rest of the unions,

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that is, the neighbours themselves,

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the truth is that, well,

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it moved us.

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All the citizens,

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realised the scale of

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this direct attack
on the province,

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and they took the
streets to defend

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the province.

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There was support
from other sectors,

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but above all
from the community,

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from shop-owners,

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from all over,

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families who don't
even work here,

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they supported us.

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It was powerful,

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because there was
a lot of support

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from the whole province,

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there was a huge crowd.

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That was the best thing

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about these days
of strike action

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On Friday, the 23rd of May,

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the news came of an agreement

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signed in Buenos Aires

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with the participation

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of the National Metalworkers' Union.

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This agreement included

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guaranteed job security

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until the 31st of December,

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for all our colleagues

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who were there at
the beginning of the conflict.

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No wage deduction
for strike days.

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It was obviously

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a very intense debate.

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We act as a

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highly democratic organisation,

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obviously with different

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opinions and

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different criticisms

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often concerning the leadership.

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That has to be said.

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Be careful what you say!

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Look, you were always

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You were always... .

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Watch what you say to us...

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We've had to put

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the strike on hold

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in order to negotiate.

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We have to give it time.

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The whole province
came to a standstill...

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What happened is historic...

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I know it's historic.

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It never happened...

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that the province came
to a standstill like that...

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It never happened
and we did it now

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and a lot of people

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supported us...

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Yes, there are videos

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of three assemblies where

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the debate was quite heated,

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against the agreement

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and for continuing the strike.

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I want to see if
the other factories,

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agree with the strike or not,

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Let's see each other
face to face...

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We restart
their production

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and on the
30st of December

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they kick us all
in the arse...

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The debate exists,
the debate is there,

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There are colleagues
who think

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that we had to continue

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and deep the strike.

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I did not agree and

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I let them know
in the assembly

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when they dispersed it,

00:13:35.000 --> 00:13:36.733
that the delegates
came to speak to us,

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I made that known to them...

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With Milei

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there's no going backwards...

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The guy's not backing down.

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I understand that things,

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are difficult for
people economically

00:13:45.300 --> 00:13:46.600
and that therefore many

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want to stop the strike.

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But luckily,

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from what I saw,

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the vast majority disagreed.

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I couldn't understand
the agreement.

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Many of my colleagues

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couldn't understand it,

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We came in morning,

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to continue the strike,

00:14:01.433 --> 00:14:03.300
but then we went
back to work.

00:14:03.300 --> 00:14:05.166
To make us redundant
now made no sense,

00:14:05.166 --> 00:14:06.066
because, well,

00:14:06.066 --> 00:14:07.366
the material has
already been purchased,

00:14:07.366 --> 00:14:08.633
the production orders
are already secured

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until December...

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I think there was still strength

00:14:11.266 --> 00:14:13.200
to continue for a few more days

00:14:13.200 --> 00:14:16.000
or at least to try.

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It was the right time,

00:14:17.200 --> 00:14:18.033
for me, it was the right time

00:14:18.033 --> 00:14:19.266
because you could see

00:14:19.266 --> 00:14:20.966
that people were tired.

00:14:20.966 --> 00:14:23.400
Yet in the assemblies

00:14:23.400 --> 00:14:25.000
there was that
profound debate

00:14:25.000 --> 00:14:26.500
and by a large majority
it was decided

00:14:26.500 --> 00:14:28.266
to follow this alternative

00:14:28.266 --> 00:14:30.300
which came from the

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negotiating table.

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The National Metalworkers' Union came,

00:14:35.733 --> 00:14:36.900
signed the agreement,

00:14:36.900 --> 00:14:37.633
but did not call for

00:14:37.633 --> 00:14:39.333
any national actions

00:14:39.333 --> 00:14:41.333
to strengthen the struggle
in Tierra del Fuego,

00:14:41.333 --> 00:14:45.233
but also those on the mainland.

00:14:45.233 --> 00:14:46.800
Because what would happen

00:14:46.800 --> 00:14:48.000
if 200,000 metalworkers

00:14:48.000 --> 00:14:51.600
from Tierra del Fuego
to San Nicolás or Jujuy

00:14:51.600 --> 00:14:55.433
went on strike together?

00:14:59.100 --> 00:15:01.066
You always have to
join the strike,

00:15:01.066 --> 00:15:02.300
not matter if you agree

00:15:02.300 --> 00:15:03.866
with the union leaders,
or not.

00:15:03.866 --> 00:15:06.533
Or with some trade unionists,

00:15:06.533 --> 00:15:08.933
who say we
should go on strike.

00:15:08.933 --> 00:15:10.233
You may agree or disagree,

00:15:10.233 --> 00:15:12.233
but you'll have to go on strike,

00:15:12.233 --> 00:15:13.566
if you want to
achieve things,

00:15:13.566 --> 00:15:15.033
if you want to
be better off...

00:15:15.033 --> 00:15:17.700
It's the only way
to get things,

00:15:17.700 --> 00:15:19.766
all the benefits
we workers have

00:15:19.766 --> 00:15:21.966
were achieved that way...

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Anyone who tells me otherwise,

00:15:23.566 --> 00:15:25.766
I'll argue with them
to the bitter end...

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No employer is going to come along

00:15:26.800 --> 00:15:27.633
and say out of the blue...

00:15:27.633 --> 00:15:28.766
‘Today I'm giving you a pay rise.’

00:15:28.766 --> 00:15:31.766
When did that ever happen?

00:15:48.400 --> 00:15:49.600
Both, Milei's attack

00:15:49.600 --> 00:15:50.866
and the strike that responded to it,

00:15:50.866 --> 00:15:52.900
put the spotlight on the island.

00:15:52.900 --> 00:15:54.166
The media arrived from Buenos Aires

00:15:54.166 --> 00:15:55.900
to report on what was happening,

00:15:55.900 --> 00:15:57.366
but they didn't report
on everything...

00:15:57.366 --> 00:15:59.600
La Izquierda Diario
was there to show

00:15:59.600 --> 00:16:01.600
what no one else shows,
412
00:16:01,600 - -> 00:16:03,900
how people work and live

00:16:03.900 --> 00:16:05.233
in the largest
technology hub

00:16:05.233 --> 00:16:07.066
of the country.

00:16:07.066 --> 00:16:08.700
Those who earn fortunes

00:16:08.700 --> 00:16:11.033
that they couldn't
spend in 50 lifetimes

00:16:11.033 --> 00:16:15.000
and those who
struggle day after day...

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Here you can see,
on this side

00:16:22.066 --> 00:16:24.000
the Argentine sea,

00:16:24.000 --> 00:16:26.400
and on this side is
the Miramar neighbourhood,

00:16:26.400 --> 00:16:28.000
one of the last
neighbourhoods

00:16:28.000 --> 00:16:29.400
that have been built

00:16:29.400 --> 00:16:32.066
after occupying

00:16:32.066 --> 00:16:35.033
these lands next
to the beach.

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You can imagine
that it is

00:16:36.500 --> 00:16:37.800
a very hostile
place to live in.

00:16:37.800 --> 00:16:39.233
Many workers live here

00:16:39.233 --> 00:16:40.833
who have come

00:16:40.833 --> 00:16:42.166
during the last wave
of migration,

00:16:42.166 --> 00:16:43.766
because it is one
of the last neighbourhoods

00:16:43.766 --> 00:16:46.233
to be built here,
on the southern bank.

00:16:46.366 --> 00:16:47.666
That neighbourhood

00:16:47.666 --> 00:16:49.100
is the most
working class of all.
00:16:51,066 because it's the neighbourhood

00:16:49.100 --> 00:16:51.066
It's the neighbourhood
435
00:16:51,066 - -> 00:16:52,633
on the south bank

00:16:52.633 --> 00:16:55.966
where it was impossible

00:16:55.966 --> 00:16:58.600
to build or acquire land

00:16:58.600 --> 00:16:59.800
officially,

00:16:59.800 --> 00:17:01.733
so people went and took it.

00:17:01.733 --> 00:17:02.766
Today,

00:17:02.766 --> 00:17:06.266
half the population
lives there.

00:17:07.133 --> 00:17:10.100
And 90% of those
who live there

00:17:10.100 --> 00:17:11.766
work in local
industry.

00:17:11.766 --> 00:17:12.533
Why?

00:17:12.533 --> 00:17:14.400
Because they are people
who have come from the north,

00:17:14.400 --> 00:17:15.133
have found work,

00:17:15.133 --> 00:17:15.966
but no place

00:17:15.966 --> 00:17:16.700
where to settle.

00:17:16.700 --> 00:17:17.900
They had no house to rent.

00:17:17.900 --> 00:17:18.933
Can you imagine?

00:17:18.933 --> 00:17:22.500
On top of that, until two years
ago they didn't have gas.

00:17:24.433 --> 00:17:27.200
35% of the island's population

00:17:27.200 --> 00:17:28.566
lives in poverty.

00:17:28.566 --> 00:17:31.033
That is 70,000 people.

00:17:31.033 --> 00:17:34.933
There are 7,000 families
without gas,

00:17:34.933 --> 00:17:38.700
and 10,000 have
housing problems.

00:17:39.066 --> 00:17:42.033
Because the wages
are too low,

00:17:42.033 --> 00:17:44.000
because...

00:17:44.000 --> 00:17:46.800
the cost of living is getting
more and more expensive.

00:17:46.800 --> 00:17:48.200
This forces you.

00:17:48.200 --> 00:17:50.433
Today, most people have

00:17:50.433 --> 00:17:52.200
two or three jobs.

00:17:52.200 --> 00:17:55.200
You live to work.

00:17:55.200 --> 00:17:56.833
With the job you have,
you can't make ends meet.

00:17:56.833 --> 00:17:58.000
It's very difficult.

00:17:58.000 --> 00:17:59.066
And besides, it's a province

00:17:59.066 --> 00:18:00.533
that's also expensive
to live in.

00:18:00.533 --> 00:18:01.400
They give you a contract

00:18:01.400 --> 00:18:02.833
for a month of shift work,

00:18:02.833 --> 00:18:04.500
in a factory,
and then maybe

00:18:04.500 --> 00:18:05.700
they renew the contract,

00:18:05.700 --> 00:18:06.566
but maybe not.

00:18:06.566 --> 00:18:07.666
Maybe the next month

00:18:07.666 --> 00:18:09.700
you go to another plant,
another shift.

00:18:09.700 --> 00:18:11.500
They're always changing

00:18:11.500 --> 00:18:12.266
depending on what

00:18:12.266 --> 00:18:13.466
they need, let's say...

00:18:13.633 --> 00:18:16.133
At first I cried

00:18:16.133 --> 00:18:18.000
when they gave me
my first three-month contract,

00:18:18.000 --> 00:18:20.733
because it was three months

00:18:20.733 --> 00:18:21.366
of peace of mind,

00:18:21.366 --> 00:18:23.300
of knowing that you're
going to have a job.

00:18:23.300 --> 00:18:24.500
They abuse you a lot,

00:18:24.500 --> 00:18:25.666
because they know
they can fire you,

00:18:25.666 --> 00:18:27.733
because there are
many waiting behind you,

00:18:27.733 --> 00:18:29.233
trying to get your job.

00:18:29.233 --> 00:18:31.433
So for them

00:18:31.433 --> 00:18:33.800
you're disposable...

00:18:33.800 --> 00:18:35.800
I'm 54 years old and you

00:18:35.800 --> 00:18:36.966
reach an age where you say:

00:18:36.966 --> 00:18:39.966
"Where are you going to work?"

00:18:40.200 --> 00:18:41.200
"What are you going to do?"

00:18:41.200 --> 00:18:42.566
"What are you going to
do with your life?"

00:18:42.566 --> 00:18:43.833
You know that young people

00:18:43.833 --> 00:18:45.100
are also looking for work.

00:18:47.400 --> 00:18:50.166
Mirgor's profits in 2024

00:18:50.166 --> 00:18:52.866
are equivalent to
1/3 of the annual budget,

00:18:52.866 --> 00:18:56.366
of the entire province
of Tierra del Fuego.

00:18:56.366 --> 00:18:59.300
Almost the same amount that
was spent on social services,

00:18:59.300 --> 00:19:02.300
schools, hospitals, salaries.

00:19:06.033 --> 00:19:09.200
Look, I think the reasons
for the success

00:19:09.200 --> 00:19:10.266
Ehhhhhhh...

00:19:10.533 --> 00:19:13.033
is this spirit...

00:19:13.033 --> 00:19:13.866
Ehhhhhh...

00:19:14.366 --> 00:19:16.500
of creativity...

00:19:16.500 --> 00:19:19.400
of development...

00:19:19.400 --> 00:19:22.400
This impulse that drives us.

00:19:22.466 --> 00:19:25.000
And I think there
are certain values

00:19:25.000 --> 00:19:26.500
that we apply as well.

00:19:26.500 --> 00:19:27.533
Because Caputo,

00:19:27.533 --> 00:19:30.533
who owns Mirgor,

00:19:30.633 --> 00:19:32.333
he certainly

00:19:32.333 --> 00:19:33.700
gets a lot out of it.

00:19:33.700 --> 00:19:35.400
It's the factory that

00:19:35.400 --> 00:19:38.866
squeezes the most

00:19:38.866 --> 00:19:41.100
out of the worker, let's say.

00:19:41.100 --> 00:19:41.833
For mobile phone assembly

00:19:41.833 --> 00:19:43.466
they hire even more women,

00:19:43.466 --> 00:19:45.966
because we have
small hands.

00:19:45.966 --> 00:19:48.733
That's where they hire
more women.

00:19:48.733 --> 00:19:49.566
There are people who are...

00:19:49.566 --> 00:19:52.333
Well, most of us are broken.

00:19:54.800 --> 00:19:57.266
Can you show that?

00:19:57.266 --> 00:19:58.400
It's the hands and the elbow.

00:19:59.433 --> 00:20:00.400
You can see everything.

00:20:00.400 --> 00:20:01.466
We're all like that,
look at the two of them

00:20:01.466 --> 00:20:02.866
we've had surgery
on our hands.

00:20:02.866 --> 00:20:03.700
Her, too.

00:20:03.700 --> 00:20:05.266
I have it here, here.

00:20:05.266 --> 00:20:07.466
Both of them.

00:20:07.966 --> 00:20:09.400
Well, you can't
tell here because

00:20:09.400 --> 00:20:12.566
because the surgeon
did a good job.

00:20:12.566 --> 00:20:13.600
And why is that?

00:20:13.600 --> 00:20:15.000
Tendinitis.

00:20:15.000 --> 00:20:17.700
I have the other one here.

00:20:17.700 --> 00:20:19.266
That's the famous tendinitis,

00:20:19.266 --> 00:20:22.266
this is how work
and the work rhythm

00:20:23.433 --> 00:20:27.066
affects us.

00:20:28.700 --> 00:20:30.266
I was operated on
by a shoulder specialist.

00:20:30.266 --> 00:20:32.333
Dr Ruiz, a very famous bloke.

00:20:32.333 --> 00:20:33.833
We put our body
on the line here...
542
00:20:35,766
It's not like you have surgery
and then you're fine...
543
00:20:43,100
In my case

00:20:44.300 --> 00:20:45.566
I had a lot of pain

00:20:45.566 --> 00:20:47.333
in my wrists,

00:20:47.333 --> 00:20:48.766
and in my neck.

00:20:48.766 --> 00:20:50.233
You're only 20 years old
and already

00:20:50.233 --> 00:20:51.633
in tremendous pain.

00:20:51.633 --> 00:20:52.966
It happens

00:20:52.966 --> 00:20:54.600
because of the
repetitive work,

00:20:54.600 --> 00:20:55.900
and because you
don't have time.

00:20:55.900 --> 00:20:56.600
It's not that you can

00:20:56.600 --> 00:20:57.633
rest whenever you want.

00:20:57.633 --> 00:20:59.233
The line keeps going.

00:20:59.233 --> 00:21:00.466
It doesn't matter you

00:21:00.466 --> 00:21:01.200
if you can't keep on going.

00:21:01.200 --> 00:21:02.100
In other words, the line

00:21:02.100 --> 00:21:03.900
is relentless, it keeps running.

00:21:03.900 --> 00:21:05.000
You have to keep up.

00:21:05.000 --> 00:21:06.266
It's an assembly line

00:21:06.266 --> 00:21:07.900
where mobile phones pass

00:21:07.900 --> 00:21:09.066
and every day
you have to

00:21:09.066 --> 00:21:09.900
assemble a thousand phones.

00:21:09.900 --> 00:21:11.666
you have to attach
a thousand little cameras.

00:21:11.666 --> 00:21:13.700
It is a job

00:21:13.700 --> 00:21:17.266
that hurts you, too.

00:21:17.266 --> 00:21:19.466
Your hands, your back.

00:21:19.600 --> 00:21:21.466
You do this
with the screwdriver

00:21:21.466 --> 00:21:22.766
and when the screw
is tightened

00:21:22.766 --> 00:21:24.166
it gives a little jolt.

00:21:24.166 --> 00:21:25.200
That ends up affecting you.

00:21:25.200 --> 00:21:26.833
So you're doing the same task

00:21:26.833 --> 00:21:28.533
for nine hours a day,

00:21:28.533 --> 00:21:29.700
five days a week

00:21:29.700 --> 00:21:33.333
and for 11 months a year, so...

00:21:33.666 --> 00:21:36.500
Looking for the challenge...

00:21:36.566 --> 00:21:38.900
It's like as if
we already do it

00:21:38.900 --> 00:21:41.866
a bit often, something already...

00:21:41.866 --> 00:21:43.033
bores us, right?

00:21:43.033 --> 00:21:45.900
It's already...
it's boring us, isn't it?

00:21:45.900 --> 00:21:48.300
We need to do something new,

00:21:48.600 --> 00:21:50.466
something challenging...

00:21:53.500 --> 00:21:55.433
Almost 100, 120 people,

00:21:55.433 --> 00:21:56.866
are on ART (on sick leave).

00:21:56.866 --> 00:21:58.700
In a plant with 800 people.

00:21:58.700 --> 00:22:00.900
That's just to give
you a ratio, right?

00:22:00.900 --> 00:22:03.600
With different
types of conditions

00:22:03.600 --> 00:22:07.133
and occupational diseases.

00:22:08.100 --> 00:22:09.300
The issues of wages

00:22:09.300 --> 00:22:10.200
and of destroyed health

00:22:10.200 --> 00:22:11.900
are closely linked

00:22:11.900 --> 00:22:13.600
to the issue of
precarity.

00:22:13.600 --> 00:22:15.466
Second-class workers,

00:22:15.466 --> 00:22:18.466
third-class workers, and so on...

00:22:20.333 --> 00:22:23.400
The year 2024 closed with

00:22:23.400 --> 00:22:25.466
with strong profits for Mirgor.

00:22:25.466 --> 00:22:27.466
Above 180 million,

00:22:27.466 --> 00:22:28.633
190 million pesos.

00:22:28.633 --> 00:22:30.266
What are you most proud of

00:22:30.266 --> 00:22:31.800
as the CEO of Mirgor?

00:22:31.800 --> 00:22:33.000
Seeing that we have managed

00:22:33.000 --> 00:22:33.933
that people believe,

00:22:33.933 --> 00:22:36.100
that they can do things

00:22:36.100 --> 00:22:38.266
that are impossible.

00:22:40.800 --> 00:22:42.200
We knew that while

00:22:42.200 --> 00:22:44.066
we were assembling
the phones

00:22:44.066 --> 00:22:45.500
that each costs
a monthly wag.

00:22:45.500 --> 00:22:46.666
Here goes another wage

00:22:46.666 --> 00:22:48.466
and here goes another.

00:22:48.466 --> 00:22:50.333
We used to joke about it
with our colleagues.

00:22:50.333 --> 00:22:51.433
We knew

00:22:51.433 --> 00:22:53.400
that in one day,
in one shift,

00:22:53.400 --> 00:22:54.633
they would make
all our wages

00:22:54.766 --> 00:22:56.200
with each one of
those telephones.

00:22:56.200 --> 00:22:57.900
There were ten
production lines

00:22:57.900 --> 00:23:00.200
with 25 people
on each line.

00:23:00.200 --> 00:23:02.066
Sometimes when we were

00:23:02.066 --> 00:23:03.233
doing very little

00:23:03.233 --> 00:23:04.300
on each line,

00:23:04.300 --> 00:23:05.666
we made 100 mobile phones.

00:23:05.666 --> 00:23:06.733
When we made a lot

00:23:06.733 --> 00:23:08.100
we could make up to 800.

00:23:12.400 --> 00:23:14.866
In 2024, almost 6 million mobile phones

00:23:14.866 --> 00:23:17.533
were manufactured on the island,

00:23:17.533 --> 00:23:19.800
and 2 million televisions.

00:23:19.800 --> 00:23:22.433
That is 95% of those produced

00:23:22.433 --> 00:23:25.433
throughout the
whole of Argentina.

00:23:29.100 --> 00:23:30.700
At some point,

00:23:30.700 --> 00:23:31.800
years ago,

00:23:31.800 --> 00:23:33.666
we would have had

00:23:33.666 --> 00:23:35.466
good wages, good salaries.

00:23:35.466 --> 00:23:38.466
Today, that is not the reality.

00:23:41.533 --> 00:23:43.300
An economic study showed

00:23:43.300 --> 00:23:44.733
that Mirgor multiplied

00:23:44.733 --> 00:23:46.266
its profitability tenfold

00:23:46.266 --> 00:23:49.266
between 2023 and 2024.

00:23:49.300 --> 00:23:50.466
Half of what he billed

00:23:50.466 --> 00:23:52.066
that year went straight

00:23:52.066 --> 00:23:52.833
as profit to

00:23:52.833 --> 00:23:55.833
Caputo's bank account.

00:23:56.800 --> 00:23:58.333
The only privileged ones

00:23:58.333 --> 00:23:59.433
in Tierra del Fuego

00:23:59.433 --> 00:24:01.300
are a handful of businessmen

00:24:01.300 --> 00:24:02.033
who take advantage of

00:24:02.033 --> 00:24:03.466
tax benefits,

00:24:03.466 --> 00:24:04.733
but above all profit

00:24:04.733 --> 00:24:05.766
from the exploitation

00:24:05.766 --> 00:24:09.100
of thousands of workers.

00:24:09.100 --> 00:24:11.766
According to Forbes, Nicolás Caputo

00:24:11.766 --> 00:24:14.466
is among the richest Argentinians,

00:24:14.466 --> 00:24:18.800
with a fortune
of 340 million dollars.

00:24:18.800 --> 00:24:21.000
Caputo never suffers
from being cold.

00:24:21.000 --> 00:24:22.300
Obviously.

00:24:22.300 --> 00:24:24.100
He lives in his luxury homes

00:24:24.100 --> 00:24:26.033
in the Cardenal Newman country club

00:24:26.033 --> 00:24:28.500
or in the Ocean Tower in Miami.

00:24:28.500 --> 00:24:30.666
He bought two flats there

00:24:30.666 --> 00:24:33.300
for 12 million dollars.

00:24:33.600 --> 00:24:34.900
Diego would have to work

00:24:34.900 --> 00:24:38.900
730 years to do the same...

00:24:42.233 --> 00:24:43.600
And that system has generated

00:24:43.600 --> 00:24:46.600
unimaginable fortunes.

00:24:46.700 --> 00:24:48.166
Would you like a demonstration

00:24:48.166 --> 00:24:49.100
of what I'm talking about?

00:24:49.100 --> 00:24:51.300
Look at this ship.

00:24:51.300 --> 00:24:53.633
Carinthia VII.

00:24:53.633 --> 00:24:56.200
Renting this ship for a week

00:24:56.200 --> 00:24:58.566
could cost more than $1 million.

00:24:59.133 --> 00:25:01.166
They say it was bought by

00:25:01.166 --> 00:25:02.466
Rubén Chernajovksy,

00:25:02.466 --> 00:25:03.466
one of the bosses

00:25:03.466 --> 00:25:05.400
together with Nicolás Caputo,

00:25:05.400 --> 00:25:06.666
a relative of Santiago Caputo,

00:25:06.666 --> 00:25:08.400
and Luis Caputo, etc.

00:25:08.400 --> 00:25:09.766
They are the beneficiaries

00:25:09.766 --> 00:25:11.333
of the Tierra del Fuego regime.

00:25:11.333 --> 00:25:15.000
These are extraordinary profits.

00:25:16.733 --> 00:25:18.500
I have always been very concerned

00:25:18.500 --> 00:25:20.366
about transparency

00:25:20.366 --> 00:25:20.966
Ehhhhh...

00:25:20.966 --> 00:25:24.533
of the company and ethics.

00:25:24.933 --> 00:25:27.466
For me, it's very important.

00:25:27.466 --> 00:25:30.500
An ethical company is essential.

00:25:31.266 --> 00:25:34.533
Our group has been
doing this for 35 years.

00:25:34.533 --> 00:25:36.800
In the last 20 years,

00:25:36.800 --> 00:25:37.666
all it has done is

00:25:37.666 --> 00:25:39.000
growing

00:25:39.000 --> 00:25:39.966
and developing

00:25:39.966 --> 00:25:41.333
its business units.

00:25:41.333 --> 00:25:42.633
We manufacture or import

00:25:42.633 --> 00:25:43.000
in accordance

00:25:43.000 --> 00:25:44.500
to the Argentine economy.

00:25:44.500 --> 00:25:46.866
The economy
opens or closes.

00:25:46.866 --> 00:25:48.233
They did good business

00:25:48.233 --> 00:25:49.633
with all governments,

00:25:49.633 --> 00:25:50.866
with all of them.

00:25:50.866 --> 00:25:52.966
Part of that wealth
that is generated

00:25:52.966 --> 00:25:53.533
today goes to

00:25:53.533 --> 00:25:54.900
a fund for the expansion

00:25:54.900 --> 00:25:56.700
of the productive investment.

00:25:56.700 --> 00:25:57.933
This is a million-dollar fund

00:25:57.933 --> 00:25:59.200
managed by

00:25:59.200 --> 00:26:01.000
national and provincial officials

00:26:01.000 --> 00:26:03.433
together with
the managers of large companies.

00:26:03.433 --> 00:26:05.400
Wouldn't it be more logical

00:26:05.400 --> 00:26:06.566
for the funds that come out

00:26:06.566 --> 00:26:08.200
from that industrial fond

00:26:08.200 --> 00:26:09.533
and the work of thousands

00:26:09.533 --> 00:26:10.966
and thousands of local workers

00:26:10.966 --> 00:26:12.566
to be controlled by the people

00:26:12.566 --> 00:26:14.800
who generate all that wealth?

00:26:14.800 --> 00:26:16.133
How many social problems

00:26:16.133 --> 00:26:17.166
could we solve?

00:26:19.566 --> 00:26:22.133
In those offices,
new deals are struck

00:26:22.133 --> 00:26:24.566
at the expense of the
island's natural resources

00:26:24.566 --> 00:26:27.366
and also the muscles and dreams

00:26:27.366 --> 00:26:32.166
of the strikers
at the end of the world.

00:26:45.500 --> 00:26:49.766
The May strike is not
a leaf in the wind.

00:26:49.766 --> 00:26:50.900
It is another page,

00:26:50.900 --> 00:26:52.200
of a rich history,

00:26:52.200 --> 00:26:53.700
of struggles and resistance,

00:26:53.700 --> 00:26:55.600
written by the working class

00:26:55.600 --> 00:26:58.600
in that land.

00:26:59.700 --> 00:27:00.900
The first glimmer

00:27:00.900 --> 00:27:04.033
comes from more than
100 years ago.

00:27:04.266 --> 00:27:05.966
‘STOP’

00:27:06.433 --> 00:27:09.166
The ranch is named
after José Menéndez,

00:27:09.166 --> 00:27:11.400
one of the last conquistadors.

00:27:11.400 --> 00:27:12.066
The Brauns,

00:27:12.066 --> 00:27:13.633
and other oligarch families,

00:27:13.633 --> 00:27:15.200
had their own king.

00:27:15.600 --> 00:27:16.800
Behind him,

00:27:16.800 --> 00:27:18.666
they went to
the end of the world,

00:27:18.666 --> 00:27:21.300
but it turned out
to be inhabited.

00:27:21.300 --> 00:27:22.766
So the king entrusted

00:27:22.766 --> 00:27:23.733
the task of resolving this

00:27:23.733 --> 00:27:26.366
to a Scottish mercenary:
Alexander Mclean,

00:27:26.366 --> 00:27:28.400
alias ‘Chancho Colorado’.

00:27:28.400 --> 00:27:29.466
After the first massacres,

00:27:29.466 --> 00:27:31.533
he invited the Selk'nam families

00:27:31.533 --> 00:27:33.733
to seal the peace at a banquet.

00:27:33.733 --> 00:27:34.966
The chosen location,

00:27:34.966 --> 00:27:37.166
Cabo Santo Domingo.

00:27:41.166 --> 00:27:43.300
When the more than
300 guests had eaten,

00:27:43.300 --> 00:27:46.533
‘Chancho Colorado’ ordered
them all to be shot.

00:27:46.533 --> 00:27:47.100
"It's easier to put

00:27:47.100 --> 00:27:48.600
a bullet in them", he said.

00:27:48.600 --> 00:27:50.100
With oligarchic governments

00:27:50.100 --> 00:27:51.133
and their rifles,

00:27:51.133 --> 00:27:51.833
the ranchers

00:27:51.833 --> 00:27:53.566
grabbed more than 1.5 million

00:27:53.566 --> 00:27:55.733
hectares on the island

00:27:55.733 --> 00:27:57.533
and the same in the north.

00:27:57.533 --> 00:28:00.433
But that desperate resistance

00:28:00.433 --> 00:28:01.566
would leave its mark

00:28:01.566 --> 00:28:04.566
for the future.

00:28:05.966 --> 00:28:08.200
So, you have to start

00:28:08.200 --> 00:28:10.366
at six o'clock and

00:28:10.366 --> 00:28:13.366
you leave at seven,
that's more than 12 hours.

00:28:13.433 --> 00:28:15.233
The workers movement
of Tierra del Fuego

00:28:15.233 --> 00:28:16.400
was also born here.

00:28:16.400 --> 00:28:17.766
Chileans, Creoles,

00:28:17.766 --> 00:28:19.333
immigrants who founded

00:28:19.333 --> 00:28:20.766
their first trade unions

00:28:20.766 --> 00:28:22.966
and staged their first strikes.

00:28:22.966 --> 00:28:25.800
In 1921, news arrived
of the rebellion

00:28:25.800 --> 00:28:26.833
of rural labourers

00:28:26.833 --> 00:28:27.900
in Santa Cruz

00:28:27.900 --> 00:28:28.533
and the workers in
Tierra del Fuego

00:28:28.533 --> 00:28:29.733
joined in the cry of

00:28:29.733 --> 00:28:32.166
‘if there are no potatoes, there's a strike’.

00:28:32.166 --> 00:28:33.233
From Río Gallegos

00:28:33.233 --> 00:28:34.866
they sent in the Gendarmerie.

00:28:34.866 --> 00:28:37.733
In Santa Cruz, the rebellion
continued and continued.

00:28:37.733 --> 00:28:39.933
Strikes, occupation of ranches.

00:28:39.933 --> 00:28:42.200
President Yrigoyen
sent in the army

00:28:42.200 --> 00:28:44.700
which encountered resistance.

00:28:44.700 --> 00:28:46.300
History repeated itself.

00:28:46.300 --> 00:28:47.500
They offered peace,

00:28:47.500 --> 00:28:48.800
but they opened fire.

00:28:48.800 --> 00:28:52.500
Over a thousand strikers were killed.

00:28:52.700 --> 00:28:53.966
That night, the landowners

00:28:53.966 --> 00:28:55.800
toasted with their finest wines.
784
00:28:55,800 - -> 00:28:56,866
But no one,

00:28:56.866 --> 00:28:58.633
could erase from
the workers' memory

00:28:58.633 --> 00:29:00.933
the history of rebellious Patagonia,

00:29:00.933 --> 00:29:04.800
which Osvaldo Bayer
also told us about.

00:29:05.400 --> 00:29:06.600
Great chief.

00:29:06.600 --> 00:29:08.066
How many are there?

00:29:08.066 --> 00:29:09.333
A lot.

00:29:09.333 --> 00:29:11.866
Now, show him.
Save big time.

00:29:11.866 --> 00:29:13.133
It's the country's largest

00:29:13.133 --> 00:29:16.133
subscription savings plan.

00:29:16.266 --> 00:29:16.900
Up to this point,

00:29:16.900 --> 00:29:18.366
and by their own means,

00:29:18.366 --> 00:29:20.566
they brought the
cattle from the ranch.

00:29:20.566 --> 00:29:21.300
The meat processing plant

00:29:21.300 --> 00:29:22.133
is the first

00:29:22.133 --> 00:29:24.366
major industry in the city,

00:29:24.366 --> 00:29:26.366
but time seemed to stand still,

00:29:26.366 --> 00:29:28.266
until the 1970s.

00:29:28.266 --> 00:29:30.033
Then the dictator Lanusse

00:29:30.033 --> 00:29:32.333
created Law 19,640,

00:29:32.333 --> 00:29:33.200
a law that sought to

00:29:33.200 --> 00:29:34.266
populate the island

00:29:34.266 --> 00:29:37.366
with clear geopolitical objectives.

00:29:37.366 --> 00:29:38.400
The conflict with Chile,

00:29:38.400 --> 00:29:40.266
the proximity of Antarctica,

00:29:40.266 --> 00:29:42.000
the Falkland Islands.

00:29:42.000 --> 00:29:44.733
But someone had to keep
that industry going

00:29:44.733 --> 00:29:46.700
and thousands of workers

00:29:46.700 --> 00:29:48.000
and their families

00:29:48.000 --> 00:29:50.366
arrived from the mainland.
814
00:29:50,366 - -> 00:29:51,433
One day they began

00:29:51.433 --> 00:29:52.966
to demand what was theirs...

00:29:54.300 --> 00:29:57.200
In the 1980s the dictatorship
was not yet over,

00:29:57.200 --> 00:29:58.333
when they began to start

00:29:58.333 --> 00:30:00.866
rebellions, strikes, marches

00:30:00.866 --> 00:30:02.133
and occupations

00:30:02.133 --> 00:30:05.133
for the first victories.

00:30:05.633 --> 00:30:09.066
The strike of '88
lasted 40 days.

00:30:10.033 --> 00:30:11.833
The slogan was
"Three to one, to the death".

00:30:13.066 --> 00:30:14.700
To move that
giant industry

00:30:14.700 --> 00:30:16.233
in the middle of the island,

00:30:16.233 --> 00:30:17.133
they demanded to be paid

00:30:17.133 --> 00:30:18.866
three times the salary

00:30:18.866 --> 00:30:20.666
paid in Buenos Aires.

00:30:20.666 --> 00:30:21.333
In a letter

00:30:21.333 --> 00:30:22.200
to the community

00:30:22.200 --> 00:30:23.400
they said:

00:30:23.400 --> 00:30:24.600
"We denounce the disproportion

00:30:24.600 --> 00:30:25.866
between profits and wages.

00:30:25.866 --> 00:30:28.433
With Law 19,640 a few

00:30:28.433 --> 00:30:31.433
make fabulous profits."

00:30:32.200 --> 00:30:34.133
This time, it was

00:30:34.133 --> 00:30:37.566
the workers who toasted
to victory.

00:30:54.600 --> 00:30:57.033
In May 1994 in Ushuaia

00:30:57.033 --> 00:30:58.533
they enforced  their
'three to one' demand.

00:30:58.533 --> 00:31:01.733
After 18 days of
strikes and occupations,

00:31:01.733 --> 00:31:03.000
the Buenos Aires media

00:31:03.000 --> 00:31:03.766
called them:

00:31:03.766 --> 00:31:06.766
‘the stokers of the
end of the world’.

00:31:06.800 --> 00:31:07.800
If the 1980s had

00:31:07.800 --> 00:31:09.166
been about conquest,

00:31:09.166 --> 00:31:11.400
the 90s would be
about resistance.

00:31:11.966 --> 00:31:13.500
At Continental Fueguina,

00:31:13.500 --> 00:31:14.233
us colleagues,

00:31:14.233 --> 00:31:15.633
we have occupied the factory

00:31:15.633 --> 00:31:18.000
for almost two weeks now,

00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:19.433
in protest against
the outstanding wages

00:31:19.433 --> 00:31:21.100
that Continental owes us,

00:31:21.100 --> 00:31:22.200
and we demand

00:31:22.200 --> 00:31:23.500
the creation of jobs.

00:31:23.500 --> 00:31:25.533
In 1995, the delegates

00:31:25.533 --> 00:31:28.166
of Continental Fueguina proposed:

00:31:28.166 --> 00:31:29.733
a reduction in working hours,

00:31:29.733 --> 00:31:32.233
so that no one
would lose their job,

00:31:32.233 --> 00:31:34.000
and the transfer of
the ownership of the factory

00:31:34.000 --> 00:31:36.033
to the local administration,
so that it does not close.

00:31:36.033 --> 00:31:38.133
Menem's Peronist government

00:31:38.133 --> 00:31:39.800
had a different strategy,

00:31:39.800 --> 00:31:42.800
unemployment and repression.

00:31:53.133 --> 00:31:54.133
They're firing real bullets.

00:31:54.133 --> 00:31:56.000
Not rubber bullets.

00:31:56.000 --> 00:31:58.000
Film it, film it,
they killed him.

00:31:58.000 --> 00:32:00.300
They killed him,
the bastards!

00:32:00.300 --> 00:32:02.566
Workers' blood
has been spilled

00:32:02.566 --> 00:32:05.566
and you don't spill workers'
blood just like that.

00:32:10.500 --> 00:32:11.700
From now on

00:32:11.700 --> 00:32:12.500
mobilisation begins

00:32:12.500 --> 00:32:13.566
for the provincial strike

00:32:13.566 --> 00:32:14.533
starting tomorrow.

00:32:14.533 --> 00:32:15.700
Not only at every workplace

00:32:15.700 --> 00:32:17.066
but in every neighbourhood,
every resident,

00:32:17.066 --> 00:32:19.100
has to take
to the streets tomorrow

00:32:20.866 --> 00:32:22.500
Mr President,

00:32:22.500 --> 00:32:23.700
this is what you

00:32:23.700 --> 00:32:25.633
have sent us,

00:32:25.633 --> 00:32:27.033
to the working people.

00:32:27.033 --> 00:32:27.933
We have nothing to do

00:32:27.933 --> 00:32:29.566
with Continental,

00:32:29.566 --> 00:32:31.133
we came to defend

00:32:31.133 --> 00:32:32.633
the rights of the people.

00:32:32.833 --> 00:32:34.000
The national government

00:32:34.000 --> 00:32:37.133
has absolutely nothing
to do with it.

00:32:37.133 --> 00:32:38.233
It sent in

00:32:38.233 --> 00:32:42.000
police troops to pacify the...

00:32:42.000 --> 00:32:43.733
situation.

00:32:44.100 --> 00:32:45.500
On the 12th of April,

00:32:45.500 --> 00:32:46.733
the provincial police,

00:32:46.733 --> 00:32:49.233
under the command of
Governor José Estabillo

00:32:49.233 --> 00:32:52.300
killed Víctor Choque
on the streets of Ushuaia.

00:32:52.300 --> 00:32:53.833
He was the first person
to be killed

00:32:53.833 --> 00:32:55.400
in a popular protest

00:32:55.400 --> 00:32:57.000
since the end
of the dictatorship.

00:32:57.000 --> 00:33:00.666
The condemnation was overwhelming.

00:33:01.533 --> 00:33:02.700
Walter,

00:33:02.700 --> 00:33:04.500
I ask, can you hear me...

00:33:04.500 --> 00:33:06.500
The uprising in
Tierra del Fuego would be

00:33:06.500 --> 00:33:10.333
a spark for other
fires on the continent.

00:33:10.333 --> 00:33:11.633
Jujuy, Córdoba,

00:33:11.633 --> 00:33:14.633
Corrientes, Cutral Có,
Tartagal.

00:33:14.800 --> 00:33:15.833
The resistance

00:33:15.833 --> 00:33:17.000
would grow

00:33:17.000 --> 00:33:19.600
during Menem's
second term

00:33:19.600 --> 00:33:22.133
until the outbreak
of December 2001.

00:33:22.133 --> 00:33:29.433
Oh, they should all just go,
not a single one should stay!

00:33:31.566 --> 00:33:32.733
Those days a new
00:33:32,733

00:33:32.733 --> 00:33:35.266
chapter was written
on the island.

00:33:35.266 --> 00:33:38.266
Crisis, unemployment and rebellion.

00:33:38.533 --> 00:33:41.600
The workers in Tierra del Fuego
weren't going to miss out.

00:33:45.433 --> 00:33:47.833
They even occupied factories

00:33:47.833 --> 00:33:50.066
which ended up
under worker management.

00:33:50.066 --> 00:33:51.633
We shared out

00:33:51.633 --> 00:33:53.033
our earnings

00:33:53.033 --> 00:33:54.033
in equal shares

00:33:54.033 --> 00:33:55.633
according to our work

00:33:55.633 --> 00:33:57.766
and we haven't had to dismiss
a single colleague.

00:33:57.933 --> 00:34:00.300
The winds of
the international economy

00:34:00.300 --> 00:34:02.400
and the struggles
brought about changes.

00:34:02.400 --> 00:34:03.933
New jobs,

00:34:03.933 --> 00:34:05.633
other working conditions

00:34:05.633 --> 00:34:06.266
and living conditions.

00:34:06.266 --> 00:34:07.700
But only up to a
certain point,

00:34:07.700 --> 00:34:09.966
because no one
wanted to touch

00:34:09.966 --> 00:34:11.966
the precariousness
and fragmentation

00:34:11.966 --> 00:34:13.366
of the working class

00:34:13.366 --> 00:34:14.733
after the tough 1990s:

00:34:14.733 --> 00:34:16.900
Permanent, temporary,

00:34:16.900 --> 00:34:19.100
contracted, self-employed.

00:34:19.100 --> 00:34:20.466
In 2010, the PPD arrives,

00:34:20.466 --> 00:34:22.300
and introduces a type
of temporary contract

00:34:22.300 --> 00:34:23.266
that guarantees only

00:34:23.266 --> 00:34:25.500
four months of work per year.

00:34:25.500 --> 00:34:27.166
It's as if
the working class

00:34:27.166 --> 00:34:28.733
needed to reassemble

00:34:28.733 --> 00:34:31.166
its scattered parts.

00:34:31.166 --> 00:34:32.100
The companies in Tierra del Fuego

00:34:32.100 --> 00:34:34.700
had the highest profit margin

00:34:34.700 --> 00:34:36.433
in the global electronics industry.

00:34:36.433 --> 00:34:38.900


00:34:38.900 --> 00:34:40.633
Then Macri arrived.

00:34:40.633 --> 00:34:43.300
His family knew how
to do business on the island.

00:34:43.300 --> 00:34:44.500
That's what he did.

00:34:44.500 --> 00:34:46.100
On his drawing board

00:34:46.100 --> 00:34:47.200
he slashed the wages.

00:34:47.200 --> 00:34:49.033
Despite the promises,

00:34:49.033 --> 00:34:50.466
none of that

00:34:50.466 --> 00:34:52.000
was reversed
during the government

00:34:52.000 --> 00:34:54.666
of the 'Frente de Todos'.
Nothing...

00:34:54.666 --> 00:34:55.600
But in the decade

00:34:55.600 --> 00:34:57.433
there was also resistance

00:34:57.433 --> 00:35:00.433
from metalworkers,
teachers and civil servants.

00:35:01.433 --> 00:35:03.433
The closure of Digital Fueguina

00:35:03.433 --> 00:35:05.200
was one of the last wounds

00:35:05.200 --> 00:35:08.200
that marked the industrial zone.

00:35:12.366 --> 00:35:13.866
Rodolfo Walsh said

00:35:13.866 --> 00:35:15.733
that the ruling classes

00:35:15.733 --> 00:35:16.633
have always promoted

00:35:16.633 --> 00:35:18.166
that workers

00:35:18.166 --> 00:35:19.800
have no history,

00:35:19.800 --> 00:35:22.800
theories, heroes, or martyrs,

00:35:23.233 --> 00:35:25.400
that we always
start from scratch,

00:35:25.400 --> 00:35:28.800
forgetting the
lessons of the past.

00:35:30.366 --> 00:35:32.100
And speaking of history,

00:35:32.100 --> 00:35:34.833
the one who found his death
was the pirate Magellan

00:35:34.833 --> 00:35:38.500
in 1521, when he tried
to plunder another island,

00:35:38.500 --> 00:35:39.900
in distant seas.

00:35:39.900 --> 00:35:42.600
He was struck down
by the fierce resistance

00:35:42.600 --> 00:35:46.600
of its inhabitants.

00:35:57.400 --> 00:36:00.400
Well, I'm going to speak in English.

00:36:00.633 --> 00:36:03.000
As we finish telling this story,

00:36:03.000 --> 00:36:05.533
the crisis is already
sweeping the country

00:36:05.533 --> 00:36:07.300
and threatens
to leave it in ruins.

00:36:07.300 --> 00:36:10.000
IMF, debt, layoffs and hunger.

00:36:10.000 --> 00:36:10.833
Again...

00:36:10.833 --> 00:36:13.166
The question returns:
What to do?
978
00:36:13,166
The United States and China
are watching us...
979
00:36:15,566
They want to
set up shop here.

00:36:17.733 --> 00:36:19.200
We are bicontinental,

00:36:19.200 --> 00:36:21.233
we have access to both oceans,

00:36:21.233 --> 00:36:22.366
we have fresh water

00:36:22.366 --> 00:36:23.933
on the Antarctic side.

00:36:25.166 --> 00:36:27.566
We know that our resources

00:36:27.566 --> 00:36:31.533
are viewed with
another intention...

00:36:32.200 --> 00:36:33.866
I'm going to speak very quickly

00:36:33.866 --> 00:36:34.866
but we have:

00:36:34.866 --> 00:36:36.400
Large tracts of land

00:36:36.400 --> 00:36:38.466
with access to energy, water

00:36:38.466 --> 00:36:40.066
in cold climates,

00:36:40.066 --> 00:36:41.533
which is like
the icing on the cake

00:36:41.533 --> 00:36:43.600
for cooling AI systems

00:36:43.600 --> 00:36:47.100
and in an area
without armed conflict,

00:36:47.100 --> 00:36:49.533
without tsunamis or earthquakes.

00:36:49.533 --> 00:36:51.133
There are not many
places on the planet

00:36:51.133 --> 00:36:52.533
with these characteristics.

00:36:52.533 --> 00:36:53.933
Of course... the problem
with this area

00:36:53.933 --> 00:36:56.300
is that it's populated
by Argentinians.

00:36:56.300 --> 00:36:58.700
This is the only issue

00:36:58.700 --> 00:36:59.833
that we have to resolve.

00:37:04.100 --> 00:37:05.600
The people of Tierra del Fuego,

00:37:05.600 --> 00:37:06.466
once again,

00:37:06.466 --> 00:37:08.800
refuse to leave this land.

00:37:08.800 --> 00:37:10.233
Faced with the new conquerors,

00:37:10.233 --> 00:37:12.066
they rekindle the flames,

00:37:12.066 --> 00:37:13.900
embrace their traditions,

00:37:13.900 --> 00:37:15.600
young but powerful.

00:37:15.600 --> 00:37:17.300
We've already seen
that neither the Menéndezes

00:37:17.300 --> 00:37:18.233
nor the Caputos,

00:37:18.233 --> 00:37:19.700
nor those who govern for them

00:37:19.700 --> 00:37:21.300
can guarantee bread

00:37:21.300 --> 00:37:23.500
and sovereignty.

00:37:23.500 --> 00:37:25.166
Their only homeland

00:37:25.166 --> 00:37:27.266
is their profits.

00:37:27.266 --> 00:37:28.800
They want the land and the gas.

00:37:28.800 --> 00:37:30.633
They want the
water and the salmon.

00:37:30.633 --> 00:37:32.000
They want the factories

00:37:32.000 --> 00:37:33.300
and our sacrifice.

00:37:35.833 --> 00:37:36.833
What we understand is

00:37:36.833 --> 00:37:38.400
that they want to
depopulate the island,

00:37:38.400 --> 00:37:39.666
that they have a
worrying vision

00:37:39.666 --> 00:37:40.700
that involves

00:37:40.700 --> 00:37:42.366
geopolitics.

00:37:42.366 --> 00:37:44.266
We have three very important

00:37:44.266 --> 00:37:45.133
sea straits here

00:37:45.133 --> 00:37:46.800
such as the Beagle Channel

00:37:46.800 --> 00:37:47.800
and the Strait of Magellan.

00:37:47.800 --> 00:37:49.666
We have reserves of oil, gas,

00:37:49.666 --> 00:37:50.666
fresh water.

00:37:50.666 --> 00:37:52.000
We are the capital
of the Falkland Islands

00:37:52.000 --> 00:37:53.766
and here you really feel

00:37:53.766 --> 00:37:55.866
that need to
occupy a territory.

00:37:55.866 --> 00:37:57.000
Part of our territory

00:37:57.000 --> 00:37:59.866
continues to be usurped
by that British superpower

00:37:59.866 --> 00:38:04.100
no less than 600 kilometres
from our city.

00:38:10.733 --> 00:38:13.033
Attention, attention, attention...

00:38:17.433 --> 00:38:18.900
We

00:38:18.900 --> 00:38:21.433
have a fighting spirit

00:38:21.433 --> 00:38:22.400
that others

00:38:22.400 --> 00:38:24.600
elsewhere in the country

00:38:24.600 --> 00:38:27.033
will not understand.

00:38:27.033 --> 00:38:28.000
We know what to defend,

00:38:28.000 --> 00:38:29.500
our land.

00:38:29.500 --> 00:38:30.400
We know what it means

00:38:30.400 --> 00:38:32.200
to defend our soil,

00:38:32.200 --> 00:38:33.233
we know what it
means to defend

00:38:33.233 --> 00:38:34.300
our sovereignty.

00:38:34.300 --> 00:38:36.000
Look at the Falklands monument

00:38:36.000 --> 00:38:37.466
that we have here.

00:38:37.466 --> 00:38:38.733
Everything points

00:38:38.733 --> 00:38:39.800
to the Falkland Islands.

00:38:39.800 --> 00:38:41.100
And do you know why?

00:38:41.100 --> 00:38:43.000
Because here, sovereignty

00:38:43.000 --> 00:38:44.066
is a feeling.

00:38:44.066 --> 00:38:44.700
The United Kingdom

00:38:44.700 --> 00:38:47.266
intends to extract some

00:38:47.266 --> 00:38:48.900
500 million barrels of oil

00:38:48.900 --> 00:38:50.000
from the Falkland Islands.

00:38:50.000 --> 00:38:52.066
An Israeli company,
Navitas Petroleum

00:38:52.066 --> 00:38:53.166
will take charge

00:38:53.166 --> 00:38:54.733
of the drilling

00:38:54.733 --> 00:38:55.733
and exploration in Sea Lion

00:38:55.733 --> 00:38:57.433
more than 200 kilometres

00:38:57.433 --> 00:38:59.100
north of Port Stanley,

00:38:59.100 --> 00:39:02.000
the capital of the Falkland Islands.

00:39:02.000 --> 00:39:03.733
The problem with Argentina...

00:39:03.733 --> 00:39:05.866
One of my roles as
ambassador would be

00:39:05.866 --> 00:39:06.733
to travel to
all the provinces

00:39:08.633 --> 00:39:09.933
and engage in dialogue

00:39:09.933 --> 00:39:12.000
and have a true partnership
with those governors

00:39:12.000 --> 00:39:14.000
and support Milei
and his government

00:39:14.000 --> 00:39:15.100
in all their efforts.

00:39:15.100 --> 00:39:18.033
They want to
hand over energy

00:39:18.033 --> 00:39:19.900
they want to hand over
all the natural resources

00:39:19.900 --> 00:39:22.233
that Tierra del Fuego has.

00:39:22.233 --> 00:39:24.166
All those resources,

00:39:24.166 --> 00:39:27.166
belong to the people
of Tierra del Fuego.

00:39:29.100 --> 00:39:30.200
No, it's not a problem

00:39:30.200 --> 00:39:31.766
only for Tierra del Fuego,

00:39:31.766 --> 00:39:33.066
it's something that

00:39:33.066 --> 00:39:34.033
happens to us,

00:39:34.033 --> 00:39:34.766
it could be happening

00:39:34.766 --> 00:39:36.200
to any other province.

00:39:36.200 --> 00:39:37.800
I mean, people
just want to work,

00:39:37.800 --> 00:39:39.666
they want to be able
to live their lives

00:39:39.666 --> 00:39:40.366
in peace,

00:39:40.366 --> 00:39:41.566
they want to
be able to progress,

00:39:41.566 --> 00:39:42.900
they want to
be able to continue

00:39:42.900 --> 00:39:43.800
grow this city,

00:39:43.800 --> 00:39:44.600
which is beautiful,

00:39:44.600 --> 00:39:46.200
even though it looks grey.

00:39:46.200 --> 00:39:46.866
It is beautiful

00:39:46.866 --> 00:39:48.000
and it is full of dreams,

00:39:48.000 --> 00:39:48.566
of young people

00:39:48.566 --> 00:39:49.600
who want to continue

00:39:49.600 --> 00:39:51.633
by keeping their families here.

00:39:51.633 --> 00:39:54.166
I have an eight-year-old daughter

00:39:54.166 --> 00:39:54.866
whom I wake up

00:39:54.866 --> 00:39:56.500
every day with me

00:39:56.500 --> 00:39:58.833
at 4:30 in the morning

00:39:58.833 --> 00:40:01.766
I feel like they're
also taking away our right

00:40:01.766 --> 00:40:03.400
to continue living here

00:40:03.400 --> 00:40:04.766
on the island.

00:40:05.033 --> 00:40:06.466
And all of us, I mean,

00:40:06.466 --> 00:40:07.833
we all have the same fear,

00:40:07.833 --> 00:40:09.566
because it's

00:40:09.566 --> 00:40:12.233
our livelihood.

00:40:13.500 --> 00:40:14.766
Why did you come with your son?

00:40:14.766 --> 00:40:15.433
Is he your son?

00:40:15.433 --> 00:40:17.100
He is my son.

00:40:17.100 --> 00:40:18.933
Because this has to do

00:40:18.933 --> 00:40:19.866
with my family.

00:40:19.866 --> 00:40:22.700
I wanted to be part of this

00:40:22.700 --> 00:40:23.966
and he's accompanying me

00:40:23.966 --> 00:40:25.100
and I think it's important

00:40:25.100 --> 00:40:29.100
that he understands
a little bit, too.

00:40:29.100 --> 00:40:31.800
And this is also
part of our culture,
1118
00:40:31,800 - -> 00:40:32,600
this is part

00:40:32.600 --> 00:40:34.166
of our labour rights.

00:40:34.166 --> 00:40:35.300
Someday he will work,

00:40:35.300 --> 00:40:36.600
I don't know what,

00:40:36.600 --> 00:40:37.866
but I think it's important

00:40:37.866 --> 00:40:40.500
that he understands this, too.

00:40:40.500 --> 00:40:41.166
One of the things

00:40:41.166 --> 00:40:42.233
we're fighting for,

00:40:42.233 --> 00:40:44.333
besides our jobs,

00:40:44.333 --> 00:40:45.433
is the fact that we can

00:40:45.433 --> 00:40:47.100
continue living here.

00:40:47.100 --> 00:40:50.800
But if suddenly they
don't give you any leeway,

00:40:50.800 --> 00:40:53.233
something where you
can work on this island,

00:40:53.233 --> 00:40:54.466
what are you going to do?

00:40:54.466 --> 00:40:56.500
You're going to have to leave.

00:40:56.500 --> 00:40:58.066
I saw it when I was little

00:40:58.066 --> 00:41:01.500
I wouldn't want to see that again...
1135
00:41:01,633 - -> 00:41:03,600
It's until it's your turn

00:41:03.600 --> 00:41:04.933
and you realise

00:41:04.933 --> 00:41:06.000
that no one can
save themselves alone,

00:41:06.000 --> 00:41:09.233
we can't save ourselves alone...

00:41:09.600 --> 00:41:11.000
The debate about Tierra del Fuego

00:41:11.000 --> 00:41:12.266
is not a debate

00:41:12.266 --> 00:41:14.000
about the end of the world,

00:41:14.000 --> 00:41:15.000
it is a debate about

00:41:15.000 --> 00:41:16.833
what kind of world we want.

00:41:16.833 --> 00:41:17.900
Why not imagine,

00:41:17.900 --> 00:41:19.600
instead of this irrational system

00:41:19.600 --> 00:41:21.733
that produces to enrich a few

00:41:21.733 --> 00:41:22.333
and hands over the
natural resources

00:41:22.333 --> 00:41:23.900
to the big corporations,

00:41:23.900 --> 00:41:25.266
a national industry

00:41:25.266 --> 00:41:27.533
run by the working class?

00:41:27.533 --> 00:41:29.900
Why not put all that technology

00:41:29.900 --> 00:41:31.500
and that collective labour

00:41:31.500 --> 00:41:33.766
towards meeting social needs?

00:41:33.766 --> 00:41:35.600
Would it not be more coherent

00:41:35.600 --> 00:41:36.900
to manufacture computers
so that kids

00:41:36.900 --> 00:41:38.933
from all over
the country can study,

00:41:38.933 --> 00:41:41.133
and stoves so they
don't get cold.

00:41:41.133 --> 00:41:42.900
To produce ventilators
and CT scanners

00:41:42.900 --> 00:41:44.766
for all hospitals

00:41:44.766 --> 00:41:47.600
with the seal

00:41:47.800 --> 00:41:49.566
from Tierra del Fuego.

00:41:49.566 --> 00:41:51.433
If resistance is born,

00:41:51.433 --> 00:41:53.333
let's hope that it

00:41:53.333 --> 00:41:56.333
may it be reflected
throughout the country.

00:41:56.866 --> 00:41:57.900
We have to stand up

00:41:57.900 --> 00:41:59.766
on our feet.

00:41:59.766 --> 00:42:01.200
We believe it is important,

00:42:01.200 --> 00:42:03.366
today more than ever before,

00:42:03.366 --> 00:42:05.766
to start building
unity and solidarity.

00:42:05.766 --> 00:42:07.133
How can we win?

00:42:07.133 --> 00:42:11.000
By all taking to the streets.

00:42:14.433 --> 00:42:15.433
From La Izquierda Diario

00:42:15.433 --> 00:42:16.633
we will continue to be

00:42:16.633 --> 00:42:17.733
in every rebellion

00:42:17.733 --> 00:42:19.466
throughout the country

00:42:19.466 --> 00:42:20.533
and the world.

00:42:20.533 --> 00:42:22.733
But it is not enough to resist,

00:42:22.733 --> 00:42:24.300
nor can we wait for salvation

00:42:24.300 --> 00:42:27.300
from those who already ruled us.

00:42:28.166 --> 00:42:29.333
So, it's either this

00:42:29.333 --> 00:42:30.300
or sit back and do nothing

00:42:30.300 --> 00:42:31.766
and wait

00:42:31.766 --> 00:42:32.900
for them to do
whatever they want

00:42:32.900 --> 00:42:33.600
with us.

00:42:33.600 --> 00:42:34.300
We are tired,

00:42:34.300 --> 00:42:35.233
but we understand

00:42:35.233 --> 00:42:36.300
that we have no other choice.

00:42:36.300 --> 00:42:38.433
We will keep fighting.

00:42:38.433 --> 00:42:40.266
Obviously, the fight

00:42:40.266 --> 00:42:41.100
will continue.

00:42:41.100 --> 00:42:42.733
If they have their plan,

00:42:42.733 --> 00:42:44.566
we have to have ours.

00:42:44.566 --> 00:42:46.100
Those of us who
make the world go round

00:42:46.100 --> 00:42:47.400
need trade unions

00:42:47.400 --> 00:42:48.633
who defend us.

00:42:48.633 --> 00:42:49.733
It's true,

00:42:49.733 --> 00:42:50.866
but we also deserve

00:42:50.866 --> 00:42:53.466
to have our
own political force.

00:42:53.466 --> 00:42:55.933
A party of workers

00:42:55.933 --> 00:42:58.466
which, together with students
and the people

00:42:58.466 --> 00:43:00.700
can take up those
traditions of struggle

00:43:00.700 --> 00:43:01.866
and change history

00:43:03.233 --> 00:43:04.600
so that this time

00:43:04.600 --> 00:43:05.500
it will be us

00:43:05.500 --> 00:43:07.766
who will be
toasting at the end.

00:43:07.766 --> 00:43:09.033
It's like a fire,

00:43:09.033 --> 00:43:11.433
there are several sources, you see?

00:43:11.433 --> 00:43:14.433
They have to unite.