Brazil
Fighting for a Seat at the Table
24’
Police car flashing lights policeman and Sonya 10 00 0010 00 06 Policeman: OK ready to go? Sonya: OK, I’ll be there in just a second.
row police cars with lights flashingSonyaturns and walks towards cars 10 00 09
10 00 11 SonyaWe’re out tonight with the ROTA which lies between the English constabulary and the SAS, in English terms. They are a rapid response unit and they mean business. So when they say duck, you duck. And everyone, but everyone has a bullet proof vest.
interior police car 10 00 25
10 00 29 Commentary In Northern Ireland, there were three thousand murders in thirty years.
10 00 34 Sao Paulo, Brazil’s biggest city, achieved that figure in the first three months of this year.
10 00 43 SonyaThe police told me to sit away from the window – for my own safety.
POV through window 10 00 47
10 00 48 music in JO music Q1
10 00 51 Commentary I’d come to find out if the global economy, the promised cure-all in our super-fast, wired world, is helping poor Brazilians climb out of poverty and violence – or making their lives an awful lot worse?
Unreported World backgroundUnreported WorldFighting for a Seat at the Tablefade to black 10
10 01 16 music changeJO title opening title music
exterior: VW Beetle door opens and boy lifted out onto stretcher 10 01 22 music out
Aston: Campo Limpo Hospital 10 01 19
10 01 29 Commentary There’s always been violence in Sao Paulo. But never as bad as this. This year’s murder rate is four times what it was in nineteen ninety five. Homicide is the cause of death of two thirds of the young men here.
trolley wheeled into hospital
10 01 40 This 22 year old man was arriving with a bullet in his leg. The shots had come from a passing car.
interior hospital
10 01 48 Commentary Seventeen million people live in the city; half in slums, derelict buildings, or on the roadside
doctors deal with injured man
10 01 59 The latest UN figures measuring the gulf between rich and poor in each country in the world put Brazil 148th out of 150.
10 02 13 A recent report for the Inter American bank solemnly concluded: the more inequality the more violence. This is the living proof.
10 02 25 Dr. Manual Medeiros Everyday gets worse and worse. A catalogue of catastrophes; fatal shootings.
10 02 37 It’s really like a war here with the number of deaths, the number of incidents. I don’t think you’d see this in any other country, in any other place, it really is a war here.
woman brought in and attended to
10 03 00 Commentary A woman was brought in. She’d been shot in the chest. No one knew why.
shoes 10 03 14 It was too late to save her.
covering her with sheet 10 03 15
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dead man wheeled past 10 03 20
10 03 2 To this day no one knows her name.music out
10 03 28 A dead man was wheeled past us.
Sonya talks to Dr Medeiros
10 03 31 SonyaCan you tell us what just happened
doctors dealing with wounded manwounded man cries out to camera 10 03 34
10 03 56 Commentary He told me three people had been attacked outside a restaurant - a woman, shot in the leg, her brother, already dead, and her husband, shot in the neck. Right now, they were finding out the extent of the husband’s injuries. He was paralysed from the neck down and will stay that way for the rest of his life.
wheelchairpan to see Sonya enterwoman sitting with husband10 04 04 The violence is the most obvious sign that Sao Paulo, the economic powerhouse of Brazil, is in crisis.
she is wheeled outSonya walks through to another cubicleanother patient with doctors
10 04 15 Globalisation has trapped the poor in a vicious cycle of despair. Instead of wealth trickling down to their level, public spending has been cut across the board. They joke here that the best chance for the poor to get into hospital is to get shot.
Dr Medeiros
10 04 59 Dr. Manual MedeirosOn an average weekend in Sao Paulo there are 60, 70, 80 murders. Working here you just have to accept that this is the situation in the country. Well, it might change but with the mentality of this government… if people had more education, a better standard of living, more money, more dignity, it might change. But that’s not happening.
Sonya inside hospitaldoctors working with patientSonya to cameraturns and walks away 10 05 16
10 05 33 Sonya: It’s been just about one hour since the first shotgun casualty came in this Saturday night with a bullet in his leg. Since then there have been five people in; two dead on arrival, one paralysed from the neck down. To the doctors and nurses working here, this is just AN Other Saturday night. No big deal. No mega shootings, no major events; it’s just the way it is here. Just the way it is.
smoggy Sao Paulo from the air 10 05 49
10 05 50 music inJO music Q4
interior helicopterhelicopter shots Sao Paolo
10 06 06 Commentary The police took me up above the smog that chokes Sao Paulo.Ten years ago Brazil opened to the big idea of our time: stabilise your currency, trade and compete in the global market, and in the end everyone will be better off.
10 06 43 At first the signs looked good.Foreign investment flooded in. Unemployment fell.Sao Paulo established itself as the financial centre of Latin America, and Brazil looked set to become one of the economic superpowers of the new century.But something has gone very badly wrong
José pulling his cart 10 06 46
10 06 48 music out
55 year old José Torres Eduardo is one of the millions of people globalisation was meant to help. It hasn’t. And now he has no hope that it will.
pulls cart onto weighing machine
10 07 00 He scratches a living selling paper and metal for recycling. All recovered from other people’s rubbish.
pan round to see man entering weight of paper collectedJosé being paid 10 07 07
10 07 20 He’s a carpenter by trade, but the burgeoning economy has done nothing for him. Soaring interest rates aimed at keeping the currency stable have helped international business but sent local firms to the wall. Over a hundred thousand jobs have gone in Sao Paulo alone in the last couple of years. People like José remain at the bottom of the pile.
pan to Sonya 10 07 34
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10 07 40 SonyaSo how much did you get?TranslatorTen.SonyaThat’s 10 Reais. So José, with ten reais, what can you get for today? What can you buy with ten reais?
pan to José
10 07 54 José Well I could get some rice. Or oil, or a dozen eggs, but everything is so expensive.
pan to Sonyaand back to JoséJosé collecting more rubbish
10 08 1Sonya So this isn’t really a very good day’s pay at allJosé No it’s not enough
child with rubbishJosé with cart
10 08 31 CommentaryTwo million people in Brazil have 53% of the wealth. The internet and global market may do something for the up and coming middle class, but you can’t fancy the chances of the remaining 54 million who live in poverty. Like José more than one in ten of them can’t read or write.
José 10 08 37
10 08 40 JoséA company wants 3 or 4 people and they get 50, 60 maybe even 500 people going for the job, and of course they’ll take the guy who’s more intelligent and better at reading and writing…
WS Tower BlocksSonya and translator go to see José’s home
10 08 50 CommentaryJosé took me to where he lives. It was an abandoned tower block. SonyaCan we come in?CommentaryWhile he returned to the streets, my translator Gideon and I went to visit José’s children.
10 09 12 It’s a refuge from the violence but hardly the way into the new global economy. There’s no regular electricity, no phone lines, none of the tools for joining in.
Sonya and translator talk to group of people at the flats=10 10 09 23 Sonya It’s cold, very, very cold for a Brazilian winter.So what’s happening here?
10 09 43 CommentaryA pressure group tipped them off about the place and they’d moved in three weeks ago. 150 families, they told us share one hot tap and shower powered by a single illegal wire. Translator.. making beans for lunch already, as well.CommentaryCooking and warmth comes from the fire.
men barracading entrance 10 09 46
10 09 50 They’d just heard, the police were about to evict them. The families were preparing barricades to fight for the little they had.
running tap pan to Carla
10 09 57 We found José’s fifteen year old daughter Carla collecting water.
WS water collecting 10 10 05
10 10 11 Sonya That’s OK.
follow her with water
10 10 11 CommentaryUnlike her father she has attended school and can read and write. But she hasn’t picked up the skills to make her employable in a modern economy.
upstairs into candle light room
10 10 23 music inJO music Q5
10 10 27 We followed Carla upstairs.
10 10 41 music out
10 10 41 We found her brother and sister in a small dark cold room.
Carla 10 10 51
10 10 59 Sonya What’s it like living here?CarlaIt’s a little bit difficult, its OK to be getting on with and one day my dad will bring some furniture and then it will be better
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Carla opens another door into room with daylightCS Carla
10 11 14 CommentaryCarla dreams of being a vet. But she’s not a fool. She knows her chances of escape are slim.
10 11 30 music out
bottled gas and one ringCarla who begins to cry
10 11 31 Sonya What do you want to achieve?Translator I want a home, to have a home.
10 11 52n SonyaIts not easy is it, where would you really like to be?
Sonya pan back to Carla 10 12 05
10 12 35 CarlaI’d like to have a better home. Some money to buy things, we don’t have money to buy anything. What I really want most is to have a family without rows and squabbles. With God’s help we can stay here and it’ll be great.
WS exterior flats
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children playing 10 12 47
10 12 48 CommentaryIn the global economy, education’s everything. Carla and her friends are better educated than their parents. But the education gap is like the poverty gap: the haves surge ahead faster than the have nots.
Caloi Bicycle Factory
10 13 04 music out
see Sonya walking through gateinterior factory 10 13 10
10 13 19 This factory is near one of the largest slums. It now produces a million bikes a year - they’ve even started to export to the UK.
10 13 23 But to compete in the global marketplace they’ve just slashed their workforce from a thousand to five hundred. They're only making bikes but people who might have been employable before are now not good enough now.
José Luis Fernandes (name super)President, Caloi Factory
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10 13 48 José Luis Fernandes We are always looking for literate people, its very important they have a good background because we are only investing in the quality area so to do that its very important to have people that can understand the procedures of each area.
favelas
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Father Eddie McGettrick and Sonya walking
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10 14 23 CommentaryIn the neighbouring slum I met Father Eddie McGettrick, an Irish priest who’s worked here for 25 years. He says his parishioners welcomed the idea of the global economy. But now hope has died. music out
favelasSonya and Father McGettrick 10 14 23
10 14 39 Father McGettrickIf we knock on the houses round here I can assure you that people are hungry. Indeed they’re ashamed to come out. And it’s getting worse and because of the violence here we often ask what is the violence saying.Sonya What do you think its saying?
10 14 44 Father McGettrick I think its saying they’re tired of the crumbs, scraping the crumbs that are falling from the rich man's table. That they want to share in this, as we say here, in the roast chicken that smell is coming beautifully.
children playing on rubbish heap
10 14 58 music inJO music Q9
10 15 01 CommentaryIf the children here are ever to benefit from the global market, they need better education. But better education means more public spending, which is just what foreign investors don’t want to see. To give them comfort the Government tried to peg the reais to the dollar. It didn’t work. The speculators hit the currency and now twenty percent of Government revenue has to go into repayment of debt.
10 15 27 For Father Eddie, it’s the latest example of the poor bearing the cost of a mad world.
Father McGettrick
10 15 35 Father McGettrickFor us here at the bottom [music out] it's survival of the fittest because all this educational system has broken down, the health system has broken down and if the people at the top cant hear our cry, they’re going to hear a voice from the violence.
Sonya walking towards demonstrationmarch 10 15 56
police try to break up demonstration 10 16 02
10 16 19 CommentaryThere’s a backlash against all this that is growing by the day. During my visit there was a national day of protest. Again and again people shouted slogans calling for more money for schools, more money for hospitals.
speakersdemonstrators 10 16 33
10 16 37 Once the hope of doing better drew people from the countryside into the cities. It’s a measure of how desperate and violent things are becoming in Sao Paulo that now people want to go the other way, back into the countryside.
travelling to countryside 10 16 50
10 16 5 music inJO music Q10
After the tensions of the city, I was ready to leave.
Sonya inside car
10 17 00 Sonya Not only were [music out] there violent demonstrations all round the country but 2 demonstrators died one shot by police, the other shot by gunmen. So is moving to the country the answer then. Well, that’s what I’m off to discover?
travelling shots
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10 17 1Commentary I was going to meet members of the landless workers movement – the MST. They’ve turned their backs on the 21st century and retreated to the nineteenth. The group aggressively targets land for occupation. The trouble is the land belongs to someone else.
Chico Mendes EncampmentSao José dos Campospriest performing mass
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music change hymn with guitar accompanimentmusic out
pan over to congregation
10 17 48 Commentary When we arrived they were celebrating Mass.
hoeingchildren runningSonya and translator walk into encampment
10 18 00 Once most Brazilians lived like this, growing just enough to survive. Now much of the land is taken up by vast cash crops for global sales.
10 18 16 These people find themselves scrabbling for existence on the edges.
Manuel da Silva Neto 10 18 21
10 18 28 Manuel da Silva NetoIn the city you’ve got no hope. Most of these people will never get a job and the big thing in the 20th century – industrialisation meant mechanisation, automation. It's thrown millions of people into the dustbin. So when we go back to the land we’re also looking for a reason for living. Industrialisation and globalisation have disregarded the purpose of human life.
truck drives towards cameraSonya gets out 10 18 58
10 19 02 Commentary They need more land; their desperation makes them ruthless. It means that farms like this one, just five minutes from where the MST is based, are vulnerable.
10 19 15 SonyaThis is the farm of landowner called Luiz Antonio who was the victim, if you call it that, of an occupation about a month ago. He would say his land was invaded and I thought it would be a good idea and get his take on it,
Sonya opens gate to let truck in 10 19 30
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exterior house 10 19 43
10 19 44 At 6.30 one morning, the group turned up on his doorstep. They said they were taking over his farm.
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Luiz 10 19 50
10 19 52 Luiz Antonio Andery Then I saw that someone was there with a rifle because I saw the barrel. You know, then suddenly they start to scream we are the landless movement and we want to get in your home because we have invaded your home and your land. Do you want to go in. I said no. They said if you don’t open we will broke all the doors and windows then they started, 10 windows and 4 doors.
Luiz walks through house with Sonya and wife
10 20 22 SonyaTen windows and four doors, they broke them.
10 20 35 Luiz Antonio AnderyYes, from the kitchen and across here up to this door. And then one guy, the leader, he point a pistol to me.SonyaHe pointed a pistol.
Sonya, Luiz and wife walk outside 10 20 36
10 20 58 Luiz Antonio AnderyYes and told me open the door, open the door and said a lot of bad words. I said, stay calm and I am not armed, I am free, you can see I will open the door. Then I opened the door, he took me and throw me to the floor and pointed the pistol.
10 20 59 Commentary Luiz and Dalva were forced to leave. By the time they were able to return to their farmhouse, twelve hours later, the police had arrested thirteen of the trespassers, and eleven were jailed. No gun was ever found.
10 21 18 But Luiz now fears Brazil is heading towards chaos.
Luiz AntonioSonya 10 21 23
10 21 37 Luiz Antonio AnderyIf they want land they have to ask somebody to government not to invade and take out our land you know. Why my land or our land, it’s a small one for us to grow something here. It’s not a socialism here.
drawing water at well 10 21 41
10 21 46 Commentary But the landless workers believe it is. Returning to the land to eke out an existence is now their best hope of surviving the yawning gap that is opening up between the rich and the poor in the 21st century. And in this battle they feel justified in doing whatever it takes.
Neto 10 22 05
10 22 09 Sonya Do you intend to try and occupy Luis Antonio’s land again?NetoAbsolutely. We’ll occupy not only his land, but any other farm in the Vale of Paraiba that is lying idle.
Exterior Putim Maximum Security Prison, Sao José dos Campos
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visitors greeting prisoners 10 22 2210 22 24
10 22 27 CommentaryI went with them to visit the eleven [music out] who’d been arrested at Luiz Antionio’s farm.
greetings
10 22 40 Jessi was here to see Luciano, his 19 year old son Manuelita his girlfriend has come too.
10 22 44 The teenagers in the group see themselves as prisoners of conscience, soldiers in the war against globalisation. They will be tried, and could face 8 years in prison.
Jessi and Manuelitawalking towards cell 10 23 00
10 23 14 Jessi Bras do ReisI get so emotional I can’t stand it, you were there, seeing a son in prison is very difficult.
10 23 19 Jessi and Manuelita
10 23 25 Manuelita Barbosa MendesHe says that inside it’s OK, but I can see in his eyes that it’s not. It’s very crowded – there are prisoners there for other reasons together with him. The police do what they want.
Sao Luis Cemetery, Sao Paulo 10 23 38
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10 23 45 Commentary Back in the city, at a cemetery by a slum, a young man was being buried, shot only the night before
10 23 52 music out
10 23 53 22 year old Wullace Pereira was shot by the police. It’s not unusual. The number of people killed by them increased by 60% last year. carrying coffin to grave
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lowering coffin into gravemourners 10 24 07
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10 24 25 The police say he was robbing a petrol station. But his family don’t believe it. Wullace may have been innocent but no one will ever know. Instead, he has become another statistic in this year’s epidemic of despair. 70% of people buried here are aged between 15 and 25.
10 24 31 music out
Junior to camera 10 24 39
10 24 45 JuniorHe’s not the first and won’t be the last. We’re very frightened of being robbed at gun point, of being murdered and we’re frightened of our children getting involved with these people.We have no security, and that’s what it's like in our country today.
mourners beside grave 10 24 58
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WS cemetery 10 25 00
10 25 14 CommentaryThe global experiment in Brazil is balanced on a knife-edge. Its supporters argue that with time, better education, and continuing foreign investment, the experiment will work. But time is running out. For now, the pressures of being in the global market place are tearing this society apart.
Unreported World backgroundroller 10 25 27
10 25 28 music change
insert trailer with voice over Sonya Saul 10 25 53
10 25 58 Commentary Next week, Saira Shah travels to the heart of a sleeping sickness epidemic in southern Sudan.Saira ShahIt’s just the kind of ancient disease that the modern global village that we’re all supposed to live in nowadays ought to be able to wipe out without any problem at all.CommentarySo why is the only treatment an injection that kills one in twenty patients? And why have the pharmaceutical companies stopped making the modern drug that cures the disease. Unreported World, next Friday on 4.
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Fighting for a Seat at the Table
24’
Police car flashing lights policeman and Sonya 10 00 0010 00 06 Policeman: OK ready to go? Sonya: OK, I’ll be there in just a second.
row police cars with lights flashingSonyaturns and walks towards cars 10 00 09
10 00 11 SonyaWe’re out tonight with the ROTA which lies between the English constabulary and the SAS, in English terms. They are a rapid response unit and they mean business. So when they say duck, you duck. And everyone, but everyone has a bullet proof vest.
interior police car 10 00 25
10 00 29 Commentary In Northern Ireland, there were three thousand murders in thirty years.
10 00 34 Sao Paulo, Brazil’s biggest city, achieved that figure in the first three months of this year.
10 00 43 SonyaThe police told me to sit away from the window – for my own safety.
POV through window 10 00 47
10 00 48 music in JO music Q1
10 00 51 Commentary I’d come to find out if the global economy, the promised cure-all in our super-fast, wired world, is helping poor Brazilians climb out of poverty and violence – or making their lives an awful lot worse?
Unreported World backgroundUnreported WorldFighting for a Seat at the Tablefade to black 10
10 01 16 music changeJO title opening title music
exterior: VW Beetle door opens and boy lifted out onto stretcher 10 01 22 music out
Aston: Campo Limpo Hospital 10 01 19
10 01 29 Commentary There’s always been violence in Sao Paulo. But never as bad as this. This year’s murder rate is four times what it was in nineteen ninety five. Homicide is the cause of death of two thirds of the young men here.
trolley wheeled into hospital
10 01 40 This 22 year old man was arriving with a bullet in his leg. The shots had come from a passing car.
interior hospital
10 01 48 Commentary Seventeen million people live in the city; half in slums, derelict buildings, or on the roadside
doctors deal with injured man
10 01 59 The latest UN figures measuring the gulf between rich and poor in each country in the world put Brazil 148th out of 150.
10 02 13 A recent report for the Inter American bank solemnly concluded: the more inequality the more violence. This is the living proof.
10 02 25 Dr. Manual Medeiros Everyday gets worse and worse. A catalogue of catastrophes; fatal shootings.
10 02 37 It’s really like a war here with the number of deaths, the number of incidents. I don’t think you’d see this in any other country, in any other place, it really is a war here.
woman brought in and attended to
10 03 00 Commentary A woman was brought in. She’d been shot in the chest. No one knew why.
shoes 10 03 14 It was too late to save her.
covering her with sheet 10 03 15
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dead man wheeled past 10 03 20
10 03 2 To this day no one knows her name.music out
10 03 28 A dead man was wheeled past us.
Sonya talks to Dr Medeiros
10 03 31 SonyaCan you tell us what just happened
doctors dealing with wounded manwounded man cries out to camera 10 03 34
10 03 56 Commentary He told me three people had been attacked outside a restaurant - a woman, shot in the leg, her brother, already dead, and her husband, shot in the neck. Right now, they were finding out the extent of the husband’s injuries. He was paralysed from the neck down and will stay that way for the rest of his life.
wheelchairpan to see Sonya enterwoman sitting with husband10 04 04 The violence is the most obvious sign that Sao Paulo, the economic powerhouse of Brazil, is in crisis.
she is wheeled outSonya walks through to another cubicleanother patient with doctors
10 04 15 Globalisation has trapped the poor in a vicious cycle of despair. Instead of wealth trickling down to their level, public spending has been cut across the board. They joke here that the best chance for the poor to get into hospital is to get shot.
Dr Medeiros
10 04 59 Dr. Manual MedeirosOn an average weekend in Sao Paulo there are 60, 70, 80 murders. Working here you just have to accept that this is the situation in the country. Well, it might change but with the mentality of this government… if people had more education, a better standard of living, more money, more dignity, it might change. But that’s not happening.
Sonya inside hospitaldoctors working with patientSonya to cameraturns and walks away 10 05 16
10 05 33 Sonya: It’s been just about one hour since the first shotgun casualty came in this Saturday night with a bullet in his leg. Since then there have been five people in; two dead on arrival, one paralysed from the neck down. To the doctors and nurses working here, this is just AN Other Saturday night. No big deal. No mega shootings, no major events; it’s just the way it is here. Just the way it is.
smoggy Sao Paulo from the air 10 05 49
10 05 50 music inJO music Q4
interior helicopterhelicopter shots Sao Paolo
10 06 06 Commentary The police took me up above the smog that chokes Sao Paulo.Ten years ago Brazil opened to the big idea of our time: stabilise your currency, trade and compete in the global market, and in the end everyone will be better off.
10 06 43 At first the signs looked good.Foreign investment flooded in. Unemployment fell.Sao Paulo established itself as the financial centre of Latin America, and Brazil looked set to become one of the economic superpowers of the new century.But something has gone very badly wrong
José pulling his cart 10 06 46
10 06 48 music out
55 year old José Torres Eduardo is one of the millions of people globalisation was meant to help. It hasn’t. And now he has no hope that it will.
pulls cart onto weighing machine
10 07 00 He scratches a living selling paper and metal for recycling. All recovered from other people’s rubbish.
pan round to see man entering weight of paper collectedJosé being paid 10 07 07
10 07 20 He’s a carpenter by trade, but the burgeoning economy has done nothing for him. Soaring interest rates aimed at keeping the currency stable have helped international business but sent local firms to the wall. Over a hundred thousand jobs have gone in Sao Paulo alone in the last couple of years. People like José remain at the bottom of the pile.
pan to Sonya 10 07 34
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10 07 40 SonyaSo how much did you get?TranslatorTen.SonyaThat’s 10 Reais. So José, with ten reais, what can you get for today? What can you buy with ten reais?
pan to José
10 07 54 José Well I could get some rice. Or oil, or a dozen eggs, but everything is so expensive.
pan to Sonyaand back to JoséJosé collecting more rubbish
10 08 1Sonya So this isn’t really a very good day’s pay at allJosé No it’s not enough
child with rubbishJosé with cart
10 08 31 CommentaryTwo million people in Brazil have 53% of the wealth. The internet and global market may do something for the up and coming middle class, but you can’t fancy the chances of the remaining 54 million who live in poverty. Like José more than one in ten of them can’t read or write.
José 10 08 37
10 08 40 JoséA company wants 3 or 4 people and they get 50, 60 maybe even 500 people going for the job, and of course they’ll take the guy who’s more intelligent and better at reading and writing…
WS Tower BlocksSonya and translator go to see José’s home
10 08 50 CommentaryJosé took me to where he lives. It was an abandoned tower block. SonyaCan we come in?CommentaryWhile he returned to the streets, my translator Gideon and I went to visit José’s children.
10 09 12 It’s a refuge from the violence but hardly the way into the new global economy. There’s no regular electricity, no phone lines, none of the tools for joining in.
Sonya and translator talk to group of people at the flats=10 10 09 23 Sonya It’s cold, very, very cold for a Brazilian winter.So what’s happening here?
10 09 43 CommentaryA pressure group tipped them off about the place and they’d moved in three weeks ago. 150 families, they told us share one hot tap and shower powered by a single illegal wire. Translator.. making beans for lunch already, as well.CommentaryCooking and warmth comes from the fire.
men barracading entrance 10 09 46
10 09 50 They’d just heard, the police were about to evict them. The families were preparing barricades to fight for the little they had.
running tap pan to Carla
10 09 57 We found José’s fifteen year old daughter Carla collecting water.
WS water collecting 10 10 05
10 10 11 Sonya That’s OK.
follow her with water
10 10 11 CommentaryUnlike her father she has attended school and can read and write. But she hasn’t picked up the skills to make her employable in a modern economy.
upstairs into candle light room
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10 10 27 We followed Carla upstairs.
10 10 41 music out
10 10 41 We found her brother and sister in a small dark cold room.
Carla 10 10 51
10 10 59 Sonya What’s it like living here?CarlaIt’s a little bit difficult, its OK to be getting on with and one day my dad will bring some furniture and then it will be better
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Carla opens another door into room with daylightCS Carla
10 11 14 CommentaryCarla dreams of being a vet. But she’s not a fool. She knows her chances of escape are slim.
10 11 30 music out
bottled gas and one ringCarla who begins to cry
10 11 31 Sonya What do you want to achieve?Translator I want a home, to have a home.
10 11 52n SonyaIts not easy is it, where would you really like to be?
Sonya pan back to Carla 10 12 05
10 12 35 CarlaI’d like to have a better home. Some money to buy things, we don’t have money to buy anything. What I really want most is to have a family without rows and squabbles. With God’s help we can stay here and it’ll be great.
WS exterior flats
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children playing 10 12 47
10 12 48 CommentaryIn the global economy, education’s everything. Carla and her friends are better educated than their parents. But the education gap is like the poverty gap: the haves surge ahead faster than the have nots.
Caloi Bicycle Factory
10 13 04 music out
see Sonya walking through gateinterior factory 10 13 10
10 13 19 This factory is near one of the largest slums. It now produces a million bikes a year - they’ve even started to export to the UK.
10 13 23 But to compete in the global marketplace they’ve just slashed their workforce from a thousand to five hundred. They're only making bikes but people who might have been employable before are now not good enough now.
José Luis Fernandes (name super)President, Caloi Factory
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10 13 48 José Luis Fernandes We are always looking for literate people, its very important they have a good background because we are only investing in the quality area so to do that its very important to have people that can understand the procedures of each area.
favelas
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Father Eddie McGettrick and Sonya walking
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10 14 23 CommentaryIn the neighbouring slum I met Father Eddie McGettrick, an Irish priest who’s worked here for 25 years. He says his parishioners welcomed the idea of the global economy. But now hope has died. music out
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10 14 39 Father McGettrickIf we knock on the houses round here I can assure you that people are hungry. Indeed they’re ashamed to come out. And it’s getting worse and because of the violence here we often ask what is the violence saying.Sonya What do you think its saying?
10 14 44 Father McGettrick I think its saying they’re tired of the crumbs, scraping the crumbs that are falling from the rich man's table. That they want to share in this, as we say here, in the roast chicken that smell is coming beautifully.
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10 15 01 CommentaryIf the children here are ever to benefit from the global market, they need better education. But better education means more public spending, which is just what foreign investors don’t want to see. To give them comfort the Government tried to peg the reais to the dollar. It didn’t work. The speculators hit the currency and now twenty percent of Government revenue has to go into repayment of debt.
10 15 27 For Father Eddie, it’s the latest example of the poor bearing the cost of a mad world.
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10 15 35 Father McGettrickFor us here at the bottom [music out] it's survival of the fittest because all this educational system has broken down, the health system has broken down and if the people at the top cant hear our cry, they’re going to hear a voice from the violence.
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10 16 19 CommentaryThere’s a backlash against all this that is growing by the day. During my visit there was a national day of protest. Again and again people shouted slogans calling for more money for schools, more money for hospitals.
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10 16 37 Once the hope of doing better drew people from the countryside into the cities. It’s a measure of how desperate and violent things are becoming in Sao Paulo that now people want to go the other way, back into the countryside.
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After the tensions of the city, I was ready to leave.
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10 17 00 Sonya Not only were [music out] there violent demonstrations all round the country but 2 demonstrators died one shot by police, the other shot by gunmen. So is moving to the country the answer then. Well, that’s what I’m off to discover?
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10 17 1Commentary I was going to meet members of the landless workers movement – the MST. They’ve turned their backs on the 21st century and retreated to the nineteenth. The group aggressively targets land for occupation. The trouble is the land belongs to someone else.
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10 18 00 Once most Brazilians lived like this, growing just enough to survive. Now much of the land is taken up by vast cash crops for global sales.
10 18 16 These people find themselves scrabbling for existence on the edges.
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10 18 28 Manuel da Silva NetoIn the city you’ve got no hope. Most of these people will never get a job and the big thing in the 20th century – industrialisation meant mechanisation, automation. It's thrown millions of people into the dustbin. So when we go back to the land we’re also looking for a reason for living. Industrialisation and globalisation have disregarded the purpose of human life.
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10 19 02 Commentary They need more land; their desperation makes them ruthless. It means that farms like this one, just five minutes from where the MST is based, are vulnerable.
10 19 15 SonyaThis is the farm of landowner called Luiz Antonio who was the victim, if you call it that, of an occupation about a month ago. He would say his land was invaded and I thought it would be a good idea and get his take on it,
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10 19 44 At 6.30 one morning, the group turned up on his doorstep. They said they were taking over his farm.
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10 19 52 Luiz Antonio Andery Then I saw that someone was there with a rifle because I saw the barrel. You know, then suddenly they start to scream we are the landless movement and we want to get in your home because we have invaded your home and your land. Do you want to go in. I said no. They said if you don’t open we will broke all the doors and windows then they started, 10 windows and 4 doors.
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10 20 22 SonyaTen windows and four doors, they broke them.
10 20 35 Luiz Antonio AnderyYes, from the kitchen and across here up to this door. And then one guy, the leader, he point a pistol to me.SonyaHe pointed a pistol.
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10 20 58 Luiz Antonio AnderyYes and told me open the door, open the door and said a lot of bad words. I said, stay calm and I am not armed, I am free, you can see I will open the door. Then I opened the door, he took me and throw me to the floor and pointed the pistol.
10 20 59 Commentary Luiz and Dalva were forced to leave. By the time they were able to return to their farmhouse, twelve hours later, the police had arrested thirteen of the trespassers, and eleven were jailed. No gun was ever found.
10 21 18 But Luiz now fears Brazil is heading towards chaos.
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10 21 37 Luiz Antonio AnderyIf they want land they have to ask somebody to government not to invade and take out our land you know. Why my land or our land, it’s a small one for us to grow something here. It’s not a socialism here.
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10 21 46 Commentary But the landless workers believe it is. Returning to the land to eke out an existence is now their best hope of surviving the yawning gap that is opening up between the rich and the poor in the 21st century. And in this battle they feel justified in doing whatever it takes.
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10 22 09 Sonya Do you intend to try and occupy Luis Antonio’s land again?NetoAbsolutely. We’ll occupy not only his land, but any other farm in the Vale of Paraiba that is lying idle.
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10 22 27 CommentaryI went with them to visit the eleven [music out] who’d been arrested at Luiz Antionio’s farm.
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10 22 40 Jessi was here to see Luciano, his 19 year old son Manuelita his girlfriend has come too.
10 22 44 The teenagers in the group see themselves as prisoners of conscience, soldiers in the war against globalisation. They will be tried, and could face 8 years in prison.
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10 23 14 Jessi Bras do ReisI get so emotional I can’t stand it, you were there, seeing a son in prison is very difficult.
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10 23 25 Manuelita Barbosa MendesHe says that inside it’s OK, but I can see in his eyes that it’s not. It’s very crowded – there are prisoners there for other reasons together with him. The police do what they want.
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10 23 45 Commentary Back in the city, at a cemetery by a slum, a young man was being buried, shot only the night before
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10 23 53 22 year old Wullace Pereira was shot by the police. It’s not unusual. The number of people killed by them increased by 60% last year. carrying coffin to grave
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10 24 25 The police say he was robbing a petrol station. But his family don’t believe it. Wullace may have been innocent but no one will ever know. Instead, he has become another statistic in this year’s epidemic of despair. 70% of people buried here are aged between 15 and 25.
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10 24 45 JuniorHe’s not the first and won’t be the last. We’re very frightened of being robbed at gun point, of being murdered and we’re frightened of our children getting involved with these people.We have no security, and that’s what it's like in our country today.
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10 25 14 CommentaryThe global experiment in Brazil is balanced on a knife-edge. Its supporters argue that with time, better education, and continuing foreign investment, the experiment will work. But time is running out. For now, the pressures of being in the global market place are tearing this society apart.
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10 25 58 Commentary Next week, Saira Shah travels to the heart of a sleeping sickness epidemic in southern Sudan.Saira ShahIt’s just the kind of ancient disease that the modern global village that we’re all supposed to live in nowadays ought to be able to wipe out without any problem at all.CommentarySo why is the only treatment an injection that kills one in twenty patients? And why have the pharmaceutical companies stopped making the modern drug that cures the disease. Unreported World, next Friday on 4.
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