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Silence!

Good morning!

Where are you coming from?

From my house, in Tragadero Grande, The Blue Lagoon.

And your name? – Daniel Chaupe Acuña.

Do you need the children's name? – No.

I understood the mining corporation had trapped Maxima in her own territory.

It seemed like an absurd situation,

in a desolate remote area, 4000 meters above sea level.

I have been here since 1994.

We work the land because we are peasants.

My parents were peasants.

We grew up in the fields and they taught us how to work.

Mother Earth gives us everything we need.

But now they say that our land contains gold.

That is why the company wants to take our land.

They want to kick us out. Where will they dump us ?

What did Yanacocha do to you? When did it all start?

In 2010, Yanacocha started.

They came with their staff.

They claimed this land does not belong to us.

This land belongs to the Yanacocha mining company, they said.

We have the property title.

So we showed it to them: "Here are the documents!"

The first time, there were 6 people.

They did not kick me out.

The second time,

there were 50 people.

We are humble people.

Look what the mining company comes to do with police forces.

They hit my mum and my sister.

Look where the engineers are. Far away!

They don't even come fix the problems themselves.

They rather send their staff.

Look how they came with machinery!

A mining company should not act this way.

They come and take what belongs to others!

Look what they did to my family.

My mum fainted.

Please we need your help!

My husband went to the NGO Grufides in Cajamarca.

There he met the lawyer Mirtha.

She helped us spread the news.

This is when I first met Maxima.

Her story was so severe, that I doubted its truth.

We are talking about a formal company.

Presenting itself as respecting high social and environmental standards.

So when Maxima told us that they violently tried to evict her,

that they came with police, with private security,

that they beat her,

and that they almost killed her daughter...

To me, it was too much.

And I even doubted.

So I asked her to show me her blows and wounds.

She then got undressed.

This gave us the elements to take on such a delicate case.

We tried to activate justice in our favor.

We took the complaint which Maxima filed.

Not only had it been archived,

but the company had filed a complaint against Maxima and her family.

And their accusation was given due procedure.

To me, this was shocking.

I understood that the judicial system works for those in power.

"Máxima Acuña: three-year suspended jail sentence."

The mining company sued Máxima and her family

claiming they had illegally usurped the land.

They had no qualms about saying outrageous lies that

Maxima entered and assaulted 10 police officers.

There were 10 police officers injured.

It even made us laugh!

So I told her "Super Maxima"!

How could you hit so many police?

Then get inside and take over the land?

No to Conga!

These are the minutes of the Blue Lagoon's inspection.

11 AM, on Sunday 24th of October

We inspect that the lagoon level has dropped.

There is no sign of mining activity.

In the case the mine started new activities,

we would call a general assembly with all our people,

all community watchers, from Bambamarca and Celendin.

I just want to tell you that

we are all fighting together in order to protect our water, our land.

We know that without water we can't survive.

Without land there is no work, no food.

As peasants, we don't want to go and live in a city.

And how are we going to survive?

Their money will disappear. Our land will be forever.

Until the day we die. Then for our children. For our grand-children.

There is no reason why the company should win!

Why can't we unite, all the districts?

And say out loud that the mine should go away!

So that we can live in peace.

These are my few words as we are almost reaching the end of the day.

Thank you!

The People, united, will never be defeated!

My blood, my life! All for the water!

Conga? – No!

Not now! Not ever!

The mining company says you want to sell the water!

They say they made a consultation. Did they consult you?

No!

What matters more: Water or gold?

Water!

I was surprised to know that, once elected, he changed his discourse.

The Conga project is important for Peru.

It will allow the great transformation and social inclusion of the Peruvian people.

We reject extreme positions: water or gold?

We prefer a common sense position: water and gold!

We can clarify any doubts about the lagoons.

In this sense, the Government will guarantee the supply of water for the entire community.

They grabbed him.

Don't hit me! Don't hit me!

I'm not doing anything wrong!

I'm not doing anything wrong!

I'm a journalist!

All the people of Peru show solidarity with the people of Cajamarca.

Our fight is full of hope!

We want potatoes, we want corn!

Transnational corporations, out of the country!

We will now begin. It is May 3rd, 2017, 9 AM.

Dear Secretary, please read out the conclusion of the sentence.

We declare the cassation appeal unfounded, as filed by the lawyer of Yanacocha company.

It acquitted the following accused people.

I'm happy. I'm relaxed. In the name of justice.

Here in the capital of Peru, today, justice was achieved based on true facts.

I just hope I'll never have to face any further harassment from the company.

They are very abusive people!

This was the path we took to go to the nearby villages down hill.

After we won the trial, the company started to put fences everywhere.

We did not know how to get in and how to get out of here.

We are back!

Lucky you came before the rain!

This morning nothing. Now that we have left the lagoon, it rains.

Here the company did not leave us in peace.

You can see their CCTV cameras.

They are watching us, pointing it at the house.

The camera up the hill?

Yes that one. – Ha, yes, watch this.

It is surveilling us.

They are watching us.

If we are here, or not.

What we are doing, who we are meeting.

If we are alone, or not.

They also started to send drones.

Good morning Granny!

This is mum!

I was the Championship Godmother!

They let you score the goal.

It was in 2009, more or less.

These pictures are beautiful.

My mum had three daughters and she was still very fit.

When you were born, you were so skinny, that we thought you were going to die.

There was no incubator, so you grew up with bottles of hot water.

And now Miss Bertha is the Coordinator of COPINH.

When I was told that they had killed Berta Caceres, who was my mum.

I had not doubt that she represented an effective struggle

of the Lenca people against these corporate interests.

So from that moment onwards,

I dedicated every single day of my life to seeking justice for my mum.

Who told you that the struggle

led by indigenous people, had been an easy one?

Never!

Do you know how long indigenous people have been fighting?

For five-hundred twenty years, since the Spanish invasion.

Since the invasion, power has remained in the hands of these northern countries.

It was based on the exploitation of our people.

Seventy million indigenous peoples were murdered in our continent.

Colonialism is not over.

This is why this fight is so hard for the indigenous.

And the State apparatus is working to maintain this.

But we are also very powerful!

This is why we are still here today!

In 2009 Honduras was hit by a civic-military coup.

We understood, the aim was not just to remove the President.

It was against a deeper social revolution led by communities.

About the re-foundation of Honduras,

territorial control, indigenous and women's rights.

A key component of the Coup aimed at consolidating Honduras

as an economic model based on the privatization of common goods and nature.

It was a set of 49 licences for hydroelectric dams

in order to exploit rivers as well as other energy projects.

Counting forty-nine just in the region of the Lenca people.

And one of these projects was the Agua Zarca project.

One wonders.

Where does so much strength come from?

Where do so many Rosalinas come from?

Where do so many Bertas come from?

They told me a secret.

These are ancestral spirits.

You did not consult the people, and today we don't want you to tell lies.

The one who is leading you here, Berta Caceres.

She had a meeting with he President. And The President of the Republic told her

that the company is not going away!

They will come for the water.

Here we will be day and night!

I see clearly that most people are in favor of the dam.

Go away!

You are lying!

We are going to read you a bit of this document

in which it is stated that

people here have signed it.

But this is a lie as we never signed any document.

This is a lie because

here you see the list, written in only one hand writing,

and without an ID number.

People who can't even read or write, appear here.

My name is Santo Gil Gomez.

I was upset because I was in this document,

claiming I am in favor of this dam.

I can't sign or read.

So why is my name in this document?

They simply stole the signature from me.

My name is Gloria Suyapa Paz.

My signature is in this document, but I did not sign it.

They have forged my signature and this is a crime against these people.

We are the Lenca, the indigenous community from Intibuca.

On the 1st of April 2013,

people in Rio Blanco started "The Taking of the Oak".

They wanted to block the machineries,

which were already destroying a part of the mountain.

They wanted to build a road

and start bringing all the equipment for the dam.

From that day onwards, violence was unleashed against the community.

Private security, machineries, police, military, they all started to come here.

There was dreadful control to get in and out of the community.

Here, COPINH is going to rule.

We could already see, in January and February,

that the level of tension was once again rising.

There was an atmosphere of tension. There was surveillance.

In one of these actions,

the main leader of the community was openly shot dead.

His name was Tomás Garcia.

He was the President of the Council, as well as a religious authority.

He was very well-known.

We want to make a commitment here, in front of Tomás's body and soul.

We are not going to sell out!

We want that DESA and SinoHydro to leave this project.

We demand them to remove all repressive forces from here.

The hitmen culture and the death threats.

The persecution during these one-hundred and eight days

of heroic resistance you have been leading.

We'll change the world with our love.

Together we'll make History. Let's go!

Berta didn't die!

She is now millions of people. I am Berta.

In 2013, we started to investigate

who the investors were, as we did not know them.

Thanks to people in The Netherlands, we discovered that the FMO bank was involved.

This is the Dutch development fund.

The FinnFund, a development fund from Finland.

The Central American Bank for Economic Integration,

and for turbines and electrical consultancy, the German company Voith Hydro.

More precisely with the FMO,

Berta Caceres, as COPINH coordinator, started communication with the bank.

Mainly by email.

She asked them not to invest in this project

because it was violating the rights of the indigenous communities,

and that the leader Tomás Garcia had already been shot dead.

"Our people DO NOT grant consent for Agua Zarca and the company in our Sacred River."

To this second email, the bank replied

the communities were not indigenous communities.

So we asked ourselves

how dare a Dutch bank

tell us who indigenous people are, or are not, in our territories?

In this North vs. South relationship,

we are the ones who must pay

for the brutal consumerism of these countries.

We have to bear the consequences

of this climate change crisis, driven by this economic exploitation.

The death of Berta Caceres is the chronicle of a death foretold.

Thirty-three times, she reported the threats she was receiving.

For the sole purpose of protecting her land,

indigenous people, the environment.

The lives of people with rights to it.

Much better than I, Bertha is going to tell you all this.

Thank you for this important opportunity for us.

It's a slap on the wrist to those investing in these projects

that violated principles, values and human lives too.

We are visiting the EU with the intention

of telling you that our fight for justice won't stop.

Love is the biggest engine driving us.

Our commitment to truth won't be stopped

not due to fatigue, nor because of all the adversities.

Welcome to Córrego do Feijão!

warning: risk of accident

For sale

My name is Carolina De Moura Campos

I'm 36 and I was born in Belo Horizonte.

My mum brought me up alone as she separated from my dad.

After being abused in my teens,

I started to question the world around me.

I studied journalism

and this is when I felt a calling to protect nature.

So I got involved with friends workIng in the field of environment.

We created an NGO.

We were a group of young people who wanted to change the world.

And as we are in Minas Gerais, it was inevitable not to work on the mining issue.

This is an issue that dramatically affects the life of communities here.

In 2015, we were shocked by the tragical collapse of the dam of Fundão in Mariana.

It was operated by Samarco, a joint venture between Vale y BHP.

There were 42 million cubic meters of toxic waste.

VALE was created in 1942

by the Government of Getúlio Vargas,

and named "Vale do Rio Doce".

A mixed-capital company

with the Federal Government as the main shareholder.

Its privatisation happened in May 1997

during the government of Fernando Henrique Cardoso,

entering the stock exchange of Rio.

VALE is today the third largest company of the country.

Just behind Petrobras and Itau Unibanco.

Its revenues are estimated to be the equivalent of 52 billions euro.

Mining is inefficient.

The amount of earth they move...

to get such a tiny, let's say, diamond.

It's absurd.

They bomb an entire mountain

and just a small part will be used.

So there is a lot of waste

And for this, they need tailings dams.

This is a place where mines put waste with no economic value.

These are the leftovers of what they bombed,

after keeping what is of economic value for them.

In Brazil, these tailings dams

are built with the cheapest and most dangerous technologies.

Three years after the tragic Fundão dam break in Mariana

three dams, also properties of VALE,

collapsed today and created a disaster still difficult to assess.

This time it happened in Brumadinho, located in the Belo Horizonte metropolitan area.

We need an urgent plan to evacuate everyone.

A police order already closed the city center of Brumadinho.

100s of people are missing.

We must provide a plan to get everyone out. It's urgent!

They destroyed our streets,

our garden, our houses, our dreams,

They destroyed our life projects.

In a few minutes, it killed two-hundred and seventy-two persons.

How could it be that only three years after the tragedy in Mariana,

another dam, operated by the same company, in the same region, collapsed?

Five minutes Carolina. Please.

Good morning!

I'll begin honoring all the souls and all those who have been badly hurt.

I belong to the community in Jangada, which is neighbour to VALE's mining sites.

Neighbour to Córrego do Feijão.

Fortunately, the mud did not reach us

because people live higher up on the hill.

The problem is the mining model of this country.

We are counting on all members of this Parliament,

parlamentarians from Minas Gerais,

we are counting on everyone to put pressure on this company,

because its behaviour keeps violating rights.

I wonder if a terrorist activated a bomb now and killed us all,

would they have the right to sit down at the table and negotiate?

Or would they immediately be jailed?

Why does a company that kills every single day, repeatedly...

Mining kills every single day.

Toxic waste massacres people

drop by drop every day!

How come they still have the right to negotiate

what are they going to fix, or not fix?

We have to arrest them now

and force them to do everything the people want.

Because the lives they took away will never come back.

In the document, pages 76 and 77 from the public civil action,

VALE presents ten risky dams.

These dams are those with higher risk

according to the assessment made by the company itself.

In this list, we see dam B1 and 4A from Córrego do Feijão...

In October 2018!

Isn't it mandatory for the CEO to know about this?

Mandatory? The owner of the information defines this.

If the information is in the technical department,

and they estimate that this is not a competence of the CEO,

then I can't make the difference.

If a CEO is not responsible,

and here at CPI we think he is,

then who is responsible?

What are the responsibilities?

To cut spending in safety, and to increase productivity,

they put workers and communities at risk.

It's a deliberate corporate strategy to produce a lot and to spend little.

And if people die, it does not matter!

For many years, Vale knew these dams were at risk.

I had access to the investigation made by the prosecutor in Minas Gerais.

It revealed that Vale had a list of ten dams,

whose safety was "below the acceptable limit"

Vale kept this list in a "secret box",

hidden from public authorities and citizens.

"Black box"

A company can use several ways to do what it wants,

One of these is called "self-monitoring".

So the company monitors itself.

Mining corps pay a company to get dam stability certification.

Vale contracted a first company. They said: "No!"

Vale hired another one. They said "No!"

So Vale contracted Tüv Süd, a German company.

As we know Germans make the world's most beautiful wonders.

They are trusted with everything,

from kids toys to I don't know what.

As Tüv Süd had a promiscuous relationship with Vale,

through many other contracts,

Tüv Süd wanted to consolidate its position in the Brazilian mining market.

So Vale pressured!

If you don't give us the certification, I'm going to break the other contracts...

In the end, a decision from Münich

gave Vale the certification, in September 2018.

Just before the dam collapsed.

"the dam is stable"

This dam rupture is unforgivable.

Irreparable.

Whatever they pay, it won't be sufficient for the two-hundred seventy-two people that died.

A mum who lost her child, won't ever be called "mum" again.

She won't be a granny.

And money can't repair this price.

All minerals that left here, and that provided this massive size to the dam,

it went somewhere. Someone bought it.

Someone made profit out of it. Someone shipped it.

So we must look at the entire chain.

For this reason, we went to Europe

to alert EU actors to their own responsibility.

We told them:

you got innocent people's blood on your hands too.

Mums, dads, sons, daughters, cousins, grandchildren...

Many many families.

Many European actors influence mining corps' activities.

Deutsche Bank financed Vale.

An insurance company like Allianz insured its ventures.

In Brumadinho, Tüv Süd, the certifying company, played a key role.

It's important that all the actors involved in the iron chain face their responsibility.

The first buyers of iron, as raw materials, are no longer Europeans.

Asian countries are the first buyers.

But we are in the global value chain.

So it would be better to have a general law

saying that companies, in Europe, in a global value chain,

have responsibility on how they buy products coming from another country.

And if we get that kind of law at the European level,

we can manage to get that law at the international level.

Not only for European companies but also for others.

Now as Europeans, we must reflect on

not only our welfare, but also the welfare of others.

Criminals!

You brutally killed two-hundred seventy-two people.

We're going to fight against you!

This has to stop!

Where are you?

When they sent their letter, they wrote

"We are going to make a donation of US $50,000"

to improve another land given by the company.

If I sell my land, I'll be left with nothing.

Sure they'll give us some money...

But what can we do with money if we don't have our land to live?

This is why we don't sell and we prefer taking care of our land.

We'll keep fighting for our land and for the right to live here.

Because I wanted to protect my lagoons,

they wanted to take my life away.

I protect the earth, the water, because this is life.

I don't fear the power of corporations. I'll keep fighting!

The brothers and sisters who died in Celendin and in Bambamarca.

For all of them we are resisting in Cajamarca.

Where does so much strength come from?

Where do so many Bertas come from?

My mother fought. Organised.

My mother was not assassinated.

She is a seed that is born and reborn.

The fire, the struggle of the people, which they tried to put out

What they actually did was to make this fire bigger

because they tried to put it out with gasoline.

Berta is alive!