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Lithium means progress for Bolivia.

It is a sign of hope for increasing wealth, education,

or the number of airports, train stations and bus stops.

All students should get involved in this project,

in the regions surrounding the Salar de Uyuni and the Salar de Coipasa,

as well as the other salt lakes of Bolivia. All thanks to Lithium.

This resource is a gift to the people

and the whole region. The future will be better.

The education, the economy, human resources. We need them.

People will no longer need to emigrate to find work,

because they will be needed here, for further explorations.

Rural life can be sad at times. But not always.

Rural life is quiet, unlike life in the city.

No trucks come here, no cars. Nothing...

There are no people like you here. None of that.

That's how we live.

What else? There's nothing here but the passing of the wind.

It's cold.

The summers are glorious.

They are hot.

This is my life, my environment, my Yaca.

There is no wind.

Because the government has recently begun to extract lithium,

those of us living here on the shore of the salt lake know all about it,

which is why we would like our own small lithium extraction project.

We are just a few kilometers away from the salt lake

and in order to participate in the project, we are planning our own pools

to support the natural evaporation of lithium

at the shore of the lake.

The lithium will be delivered to Comibol, the big state mining company.

This is our dream.

This is the reason why we are searching for projects

to support our neighbors in our small community of Agencha.

How could things change?

How could things change?

I don't know...

Maybe there will be change. I don't know.

That's why I say, only God is all-knowing.

God knows everything. We live through him. You and us.

Right?

- Where is it? - I don't know.

I don't know where it is.

There's nothing here.

- Did you find another one? - Where did you put it?

- How many did you find? - Two.

- I found three more. Now, I have four.

Ladies and Gentlemen, dear friends! Good morning!

I am Liu Wenjing of the Beijing Car Licensing Administration,

I will host today's lottery drawing,

which is carried out according to Beijing car licensing regulations.

Please put the lottery balls into the bowl.

One, two, three...

In 1997, the amount of cars in Beijing surpassed 1 million.

Ten years later, this number had increased fourfold.

Without proper regulation, it will exceed 6 million, within 1 or 2 years.

The congestion index would climb to 9.5.

The average driving speed would fall below 15 km/h.

A motor vehicle management plan was passed in 2010

which went into effect Jan. 1st 2011 in order to mitigate growth.

This is how we reduce traffic without having to ban people from driving.

Over the past three years the growth rate was restricted

to a maximum 240,000 new car registrations per year.

Currently, there are a total of 5.4 million cars in Beijing,

which means we have reached our goal

of remaining below 6 million cars.

Until 2017, new registrations

will be limited to 150,000 annually.

This is the core of our regulatory concept.

On the 26th of each month we raffle off licenses for private vehicles,

except during the Spring Festival.

During the most recent lottery we received 1.74 million applications,

while granting 18,000 new licenses.

This means the chance of being granted a license is approximately 1%.

You cannot buy this car without a license.

I have a license for my old car that I would like to transfer over.

- What kind of car do you have? - Korean.

I see. You'll have to sell your old car first.

- What? - You have to apply for a new license.

Then I can sell you the car.

So that means I have to sell my old car before I can get a new license?

Exactly, sell the car first, then you can take care of the new license.

Then I'll sell you the car and also register it for you.

Okay. Which means I need a new license first.

No license, no car. No matter how much money you offer me.

You have a restricted registration for Beijing?

For the province of Jilin? So why does it say...?

You misspelled it. Here, it says Bao Ding...

BMW transmissions are the best.

The new 7-series uses an 8-speed automatic transmission,

comparable to models like the Audi A8 or Benz.

They all come with this competitive advantage.

All our new 7-series cars have 8-gear transmissions.

- 8 gears? - Yes, see for yourself.

It doesn't matter if you speed up sharply or gradually,

when you change gears you hardly notice it.

If you accelerate quickly it will skip a gear.

That comes in handy.

How do you like it?

It's pretty comfortable here in the back.

- Is there a seat heater? - Yes, there is.

- How do I turn it on? - There's a button in the middle.

You can choose between high, medium and low.

I can't decide between the 5 and the 7 series.

Are you using the car mainly for business?

Yes, for business.

Any preferences regarding the interior?

The entertainment system, for instance?

The higher the quality, the better.

It should also come with a pleasant character.

- Will you be driving the car? - No, I have a driver.

So you will sit in the back, mostly?

I'll drive it myself every once in a while, but mostly it'll be the driver.

Each salesman has a sales target of ten cars per month.

To reach this number, coaches are invited

to conduct weekly product training sessions,

where we are updated on imports as well as domestic production.

The sessions are very helpful for our sales performance.

We learn how to help customers find the right car for them.

I myself spend time with customers also when I am off work,

to strengthen the relationship. If they recommend me to their friends,

it gets me that much closer to achieving my sales target.

I'll take my customers out to dinner,

play pool or football with them.

These are all bridges for getting closer to customers.

Hold on a second. Are you ready?

- Let's get started. - Are you ready?

- Ready? - Don't turn around!

Ready. Go!

- Two BMWs? Two side doors? - No.

- Both displays? - No.

Both headlights?

About SPQ, I'll repeat: if the customer says no,

we try and convince him two more times.

Only when we've tried twice and he still refuses, do we give up.

At this point you may give up without being penalized for it.

So, if the customer refuses, be persistent.

And that way, you can still score points. Alright?

I'll repeat how the SPQ point system works one more time,

because I heard a bad example in an audio recording recently.

I won't name names, but I heard it.

That's what we were just talking about: attitude.

You won't succeed with strategy, performance or product alone,

if you've got a bad attitude.

This is something we'll need to discuss again. Agreed?

What are we doing later? Going home?

- Yes, going home. - You don't want to do anything?

- Is everything fine at work? - Yes.

- Let's do something then. - Yes, okay.

- Want to go to the movies? - Okay!

So you want to watch a movie?

We should actually go home and take the dog out.

True.

Maybe we could go shopping before going home?

Isn't it too late for that too?

Tell me about work! Did you sell a car?

- I received a complaint. - Someone complained about you?

A deal fell through.

A customer's loan was disapproved and he couldn't buy the car.

- Don't worry. Everybody is stressed.

- I'm not stressed out. I didn't say anything about stress.

Would you like some more?

Yes, it tastes excellent.

I grew up in a simple one-story building.

There were no skyscrapers. After school, all the kids gathered

and played in the streets. There weren't any video games.

The girls jumped rope.

The boys played with marbles or threw paper planes.

Our parents were very hard-working when they were young.

After work they ran errands before coming home to cook.

I did my homework or played outside.

Everything is different now.

Living in a high-rise is very comfortable.

When I was a child my parents had to load a coal stove

for us to have heat.

The apartments had coal stoves, but no restrooms.

We had to go out into the alleys in our thin pajamas.

That was pretty rough. Things were not as advanced.

Those outside toilets weren't lit, so, it was easy to fall in.

Things are no longer like this today.

Our parents used to tell us: We have a bicycle, a radio, what else?

- A flashlight! - Yes. The old three, as they say.

When you owned those three items, you could call yourself wealthy.

These things seem meaningless today.

Today's living standards are incomparable to those of the past.

I consider us a very happy generation.

But the next generation is going to be even happier.

life and death...

Isn't Pompeii a real-life "The Day After" experience?

It is very hot today. Can you still take it?

Okay, Beda?

Are you enjoying yourself?

Okay, Beda?

What's wrong with your arm?

Hey sweety!

I am going to feed you some milk, now.

Open your mouth!

Spit it out!

Spit it out!

Like this...

Spit!

You!

Jenny? Eat...?!

- What? - No!

- Okay! - No.

Enough, huh?

You did not eat much today.

- Enough. - Enough. Take your time.

Are you lazy?

Are you lazy?

Let's go. We'll get up and brush your teeth.

I need to move you.

Turn towards me.

Turn towards me.

I'll help you.

Let's go. One, two... Can you hold the chair?

One, two, three!

One, two, three!

I had to learn to be patient. I used to be more frantic.

And never listened to anybody.

The most important thing is for people to care for one another like family.

I don't consider it work, coming here every day.

It feels more like caring for my own father.

Every day I fear he is going to leave me.

I've been very scared ever since he got sick.

In the beginning I didn't know why I had fallen in love with him.

Since we've been together...

He's like my father, like a good friend,

like my child, like a brother. He's all of that put together.

Sometimes he acts like a three year old child,

and other times he acts like an adult.

He's very sick now.

And I'm no longer happy.

I fear I could lose him any day now.

There are a lot of rumors here.

I don't know when it was built.

Some say it was built for the armed forces.

Or that it was going to be a mall. I don't know.

All I know is that it is called "The Tower of David."

But I couldn't tell you what it was built for.

Most people here are poor and needy.

They are homeless.

We occupied the building to attract the government's attention.

To get their help so that they provide us housing.

They haven't evicted us, but they haven't provided help either.

What we have here is what we have done ourselves

with the support of the cooperative.

From the government we have received no support at all.

Lift it up. Carry it in here.

Top or bottom? Top, right?

It's harder at the top. Let go.

Always look up!

Don't look down. Up!

It's sold out.

Is there condensed milk to make a flan?

No. Next time you make some, sell me some.

Let me know when and I'll do it for you.

- The other place has been ripping me off. I stopped buying from them.

Get me the condensed milk and four eggs and I'll do the rest.

- Get you what? - Condensed milk and four eggs.

- How much is it? - That'll be 30, 40... 43.

- How much is in here? - Ten.

- Do they have some upstairs? - They're closed already.

- They had some, but it sold out again. - What do you have in that cooler?

Here? This one? Nothing, the power outage ruined it!

That's too bad! Wilmer's refrigerator was blown out too.

Well, my TV and fan are long gone.

- What a shame. - Bye, love. Yes?

- Do you have soda? - Yes.

- Can I get a coca-cola? - We don't have coca-cola.

Tell your mom all I've got is Manzanita and Piña.

As far as I know, this was to become a financial center

with a neighboring hotel and garage, for a shopping mall I suppose.

This building was already here 22 years ago, when I moved to Caracas.

Why hasn't it been completed?

It was built by Banco Latino, which went bankrupt.

Fogade, the ministry for economy and finance, then took control,

and left it to itself. It stood abandoned for years.

There was only one watchman to guard the entire complex.

Then people started coming in from the poor neighborhoods.

The construction was not suitable to live in it.

I lived in Petare, which is a poor neighborhood.

So when we saw this building here, we decided to occupy it.

We made it habitable with whatever we had at hand.

The tower was a shell, unfinished, without running water or electricity.

Nothing. We had to build everything ourselves.

We used telephone cables for the wiring, but that didn't work out.

Then we pooled together money to install the electricity and lighting.

We cleaned everything.

We initially lived in tents. Those were very difficult times.

There was only water on the ground floor, so we took baths down there.

And were forced to carry the water up one floor at a time.

We had nothing. We started from scratch.

It was an abandoned construction site. It was a huge effort.

That time... of the year... Season. Andrea! They go together!

- What? - They tell me I don't collaborate enough.

Neither do I.

Can we buy that hose tomorrow at 1?

- Supposedly El Negro goes with me. Mr. Peña will lend us a taxi.

I came here from Colombia out of desperation,

due to general instability and because I was out of work.

I had a house, but the bank took it from me,

because I couldn't keep up with the payments.

Interest rates were very high and I couldn't afford it any longer.

The state introduced new regulatory actions 10, 15 years ago.

The bank took my house even though I had been paying for six years.

I was desperate.

And then I came here because my entire family was here.

I had stayed behind by myself.

My son, my mother... They are all here.

My sister has been living in Venezuela for thirty years.

I came ten years ago.

It wasn't easy coming here.

And it's not easy living here either.

It was very difficult. We struggled a lot.

But there was a necessity to move here.

And I have to say, I am happy.

We have everything we need.

It wasn't easy at the beginning.

We lived outside, there where you filmed.

Our tents were there between the entrance and the church.

When we would come home from work, our mattresses were soaking wet.

We had to wring them out.

I'm happy to live upstairs now.

It's very important to me.

A blessing.