CRYING
FOR ARGENTINA
TANGO introduction + singing
svo – Irma Guevara
(introduction)
We lived in a rich first world country so we were
forced to go and beg for food, for benefits, and our children are dying from
malnutrition. This tango is about how they deceived us.
(tango singing)
What kind of a madhouse is this. In the depths of all
this chaos they are coming to tell us that we are part of the rich first world.
It is so grotesque, so absurd so terrible, that it
makes me laugh when I watch the news, to stop myself from crying.
LA BOCA
Commentary (start reading at the last second of the
sunken boat shot)
4:16
La Boca,
millions of European migrants arrived here in the
previous century, looking for prosperity in this rich country. Until the
nineties, this was a flourishing harbour community, full of factories. Today
nearly all the factories have been closed.
SVO - Allala Callo, Maritime union
This was a cooperative founded in 1977. It employed
300 workers for all sorts of ship repairs.
SVO - Allala Callo, Maritime union
We can see a hulk, ship wrecks along the quays.
This is what happens when the government pegs our
currency to the strong dollar and privatises the shipbuilding industry.
This is the result : abandoned boats, closed companies
and no future.
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Ten years ago, the shipbuilding industry in Buenos
Aires employed fifteen thousand people, now only eighteen hundred remain.
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Across from here there was a kilometre of shipyards,
COMMENTARY
5:34
The closed factories at best serve only as storage
space.
SVO - Allala Callo, Maritime union
5000 employees lived in this neighbourhood, now almost
all of them are unemployed.
We see the neighbourhood become impoverished and
degenerate, due to a lack of resources.
Commentary
6:01
If you climb up on the high bridge you discover a vast
container park. Where the Argentine industry used to be, all that is left there
now are imported goods.
The industry has been handed over to the global market
without protection, the result being : this country hardly produces anything
itself anymore.
AT LILA OLIVAÕS HOME
Commentary (read at end of pan)
6:23 A work of art by Lila Oliva, a sculptress for
thirty years, she has won prizes, her sculptures are exhibited at home and
abroad.
SVO - LILA OLIVA
This is a man and a woman.
A symbiosis, my interpretation of love.
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This dates back to 1986, a work about dance.
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This was Argentina in 1977, the time of the
dictatorship.
COMMENTARY (read immediately after the shot change)
6:54
Lila is affluent and has money in a foreign bank, but
the bank only wants to pay in
heavily devalued pesos, not in dollars as was promised.
SVO - Lila Oliva
I have always had enough capital to live well. But our
bankers claimed that they did not have any dollars.
Our savings had been especially attracted by foreign
banks with the promise that they would always remain as dollars.
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This is what happened to the middle class.
They have destroyed that middle class, the driving
force of Argentina.
The last year and a half I have been forced to go out
onto the street, even us artists who live in ivory towers.
DEMONSTRATION SMALL SAVERS
COMMENTARY
7:52
Small savers vent their fury on bank buildings in the
centre of Buenos Aires. They have been doing it three times a week, since the
end of 2001.
Thieves, thieves, give us our savings back.
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That bank has my money, the fruits of years of toil.
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(driver in a small lorry)
They are right, sadly enough they are right.
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woman with a placard in her hands – no SVO
These are some Argentines who smuggled their money out
of the country just before all bank balances
were frozen.
This is black money that has been diverted via the
Cayman Islands.
Mister Devoto has smuggled out 50 million Euros that
way.
Commentary
9:11 Nearly all the riches fall into the hands of a
small minority of super rich who take their money abroad. This flight of
capital is as great as the total foreign debt.
woman in front of the national bank – no SVO
The president of our national bank, 38 years old, has
ten million Euros, twenty thousand Euros in Argentina,
and the rest in foreign accounts. And he wants to
force us to exchange our money for treasury notes; he should bring back his own
money and put it in treasury notes.
Commentary (on IMF image)
9:45
The National Bank also houses the IMF representative,
he has something to admit.
SVO – Luis Cubeddu, International Monetary Fund
The middle class has been depleted, that is true. And
we think that is very unfortunate. It is sad story.
COMMENTARY (on World Bank image)
10:06
High above the city, at the World Bank, they know
about the mounting poverty É from their reports
SVO – Axel Van Trotsenburg, Director World Bank
(Spoken in Dutch)
2002 was a tough year. Poverty has skyrocketed, it
went up from 38 to 58 percent.
LA MATANZA 1
(singing at demonstration)
We are going to throw out the president.
Commentary
10:34
Blocking roads, demonstrating, thousands of times the
Argentines have already taken to the streets, angry. One of them is Liliana
Galeano.
(singing at demonstration)
Blocking the roads is the new path towards our
freedom.
SVO - Liliana Galeano
The textile factory Oeste used to be here. I worked
there from 1977 to 1980. 2500 people worked there.
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Now a supermarket has replaced it, a place of
consumption where the only products on sale are imported.
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These multinationals have entered and destroyed our
economy, the economy that employed many Argentines.
COMMENTARY
11:36
The La Matanza neighbourhood, with two million
inhabitants, was an industrial bastion in Buenos Aires. Once upon a time
everybody there had a job.
(in closed factory)
SVO - Liliana Galeano
This factory made inner tubes for bicycles, bladders
of footballs, latex gloves and head caps, all products made of rubber.
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The destruction of our industry started with the
military dictatorship of 1976. This was one in a long line of factories that
closed down.
DOZENS OF PEOPLE IN FRONT OF CLOSED FACTORY
COMMENTARY FADER
12:26
Rosario, 300 kilometres from Buenos Aires. A big crowd
in front of the Fader factory, that is the first crowd in a long time, because
the only Argentine factory of fridges and cooling systems closed down in 1998.
These ex-employees, often with thirty years experience, hope that they can
reopen their factory, at their own expense.
SVO – Alicia Belardinelli
All those who are here now, want to go inside and
fight for work. You mustnÕt forget, we also fought in Ô98
but we were out on the street.
SVO – JosŽ Abelli, Movement for recovered
factories
Nobody is handing out gifts. If we can almost take
over the factory, then that is the result of our efforts and our struggle.
(old man without SVO)
Now we are setting up a cooperative, to reopen the
factory, because it is ours.
AT THE FACTORY GATE
SVO – Alicia Belardinelli
It is terrible to lose your job, not have anything to
eat, having to take your children out of school and lose everything, it is
dreadful. My husband and I used to work here. Our house, we owed everything to
the factory.
IN THE SHOPPING STREET
(OFF on walking Alicia)
We had a very good life, we went on holidays, had a
car, we earned good money.
IN KITCHEN
SVO – Alicia Belardinelli
Our house was very beautiful. But look at it now, at
how it all looks, the house is crumbling due to a lack of any income, look at
the ceiling, when it rains, it rains inside.I have to buy a lamp but I do not
have any money.
IN THE EMPTY LIVING ROOM
This was the living room, it was lovely I bought
everything from scratch, first the table, then the seats,
and then the decorations.
IN SONÕS ROOM
My son was training to be a cook. for 30 Euros per
month, that became unaffordable and he stopped.
OFF ON WALK ON TERRACE AND TO ROOF
I want a job, not food parcels or benefits, I want an
honest wage.
ON ROOF
Without money we just have to tap electricity
illegally. We have no other choice, you can not possibly live without
electricity. We could not pay, now I am even being taken to court. But if I do
not have any work,
how can I pay?
The water has also been turned off, so we connected it
ourselves.
AT HOUSE OF NEIGHBOUR WITH HALF PARALYSED HUSBAND
Commentary
15:17
Alicia takes us to the neighbours, it is even worse
there.
neighbour, no SVO
My husband had a job, he had a stroke, now he is half
paralysed, he cannot walk, he cannot do anything.
We have no money for the medical bills, transport or
rehabilitation.
Alicia, no SVO
He worked as a taxi driver, and suffered the stroke as
they were threatening to lay him off. Look at him lying there now.
THE THREE CHIMNEYS
SVO – Alicia Belardinelli
These three chimneys stood in the middle of the
factory. The factory was huge, It covered this entire area. 2000 to 3000 people
worked here until it was closed down ten years ago. It has been completely
demolished.
The chimneys remain as a monument to unemployment.
IMF
SVO – Luis Cubeddu, International Monetary Fund
The economy worked, but only for the rich.
COMMENTARY (on IMF representative at computer)
16:34
The IMF representative saw that it was not good and he
made a decision.
Luis Cubeddu, International Monetary Fund –
without SVO
Maybe wage reductions were necessary after all.
ROSARIO RECOVERED FACTORIES
COMMENTARY (read almost immediately)
16:45
The Argentine employees are trying to find alternative
solutions.
JosŽ Abelli in car
SVO – JosŽ Abelli, Movement recovered factories
By recovering and managing the companies ourselves we
want to avoid ending up with a marginal existence, and we also want to work on
a more equal distribution of incomes.
METALLURGIC FACTORY
Commentary
17:09
And this is working more and more, as we can see in a
small metallurgic company where we have an appointment with the manager.
Omar Pucciano - no SVO
I do not feel like a manager, more like a worker who
can make the factory grow.
Commentary
17:27
In 2000, the owners closed this company, it is
bankrupt. The severance pay for the ten employees was the machinery and they
set up their own company.
SVO - Omar Pucciano
In the beginning we hardly earned anything. Our
families had to support us. Later on we earned 10 Euros per week, then 15, 25
and now 40 Euros per week. And that will go up even more. Everybody makes the
same.
(pause)
We hold general meetings, not for day-to-day decisions,
that would be too complicated, but we do take the major decisions together.
JosŽ Abelli in car
SVO – JosŽ Abelli, Movement recovered factories
We have a slogan: occupy, offer resistance and
produce. Why do we have to occupy companies?
If we do not do it, the managers will ransack the
company, and once we want to start producing again, there is nothing left.
PASTA COMPANY
COMMENTARY
18:45
This company is now also a cooperative. It went into
liquidation in 2000. The employees lost their jobs, did not get a severance pay
or benefits. Their only way out was to lay their hands on the machines
themselves.
SVO - Omar
Caceres, Manager pasta cooperative
This was difficult because they wanted to sell the
machines. For two months we kept watch day
and night to prevent that from happening.
Commentary
19:12
The employees-owners have a different approach. Two
people handle the accounting and administration, it used to be twelve. And they
discovered that the former manager and the owners did pocket a lot of money.
SVO - Jorge Aguilera, Accountant
The manager earned twelve times more than us. And
every week, each of the three owners took
a thousand Euros or more out of the cash register.
(cook OFF)
This will be a vegetable ravioli.
SVO - Omar Caceres, Manager pasta cooperative
We earn the same as before. The difference is that we
work for ourselves, we have social security and we can rest easy at night,
because we know that we will still have a job to go back to the next day.
SVO - Jorge Aguilera, Accountant
The devaluation of December 2001 was a disaster for
us. The price of our staple product, flour,
increased fourfold.
ARGENTINA BIGGEST FOOD PRODUCER AND HUNGRY
NEVERTHELESS
Commentary (read at end of pan)
20:33
The price explosion is odd, because all the grain
comes from this country. Soya, wheat, not a single other country produces as
much food per inhabitant as Argentina, especially grain. The large landowners
sell almost everything to other countries.
SVO – JosŽ Abelli
This is the grain exchange of Rosario. Every year,
seven billion Euros of grain is sold here.
Commentary (from second shot)
21:07
And so thousands of full lorries and the few still
moving trains transport all that grain to Rosario, where it ends up in enormous
silos on the banks of the river Parana, and from there onto a boat to Europe
and other countries. The 37 million Argentines who also want to eat just have
to pay the same high dollar price.
SVO – JosŽ Abelli, Movement recovered factories
Argentina grows food for three hundred million people.
Paradoxically and tragically this is a society with twenty million poor people
ten million of which are going hungry.
TANGO SINGING
SVO – Irma Guevara
This hurts me, it cuts me to the quick. Because if
this is the first world, then where is it?
ROSARIO – NEIGHBOURHOOD IRMA
SVO - Irma Guevara
We cook three times a week for the children and the
elderly. There is a real need and it is constantly getting worse. There is
malnutrition, not so much here, but there are undernourished children. In a
country that produces milk, basic nutrition for children, the milk is extremely
expensive, milk is unaffordable.
old woman – no SVO
My daughter is unemployed, so is her husband. So I
come here for food. With her monthly allowance of 45 Euros the daughter can
only pay the rent.
old man – no SVO
This is a meal for two.
Commentary
23:24
Irma started up her soup kitchen after the explosion
of popular fury in which thirty-three demonstrators were shot dead and during
which her neighbourhood was also in a state of uproar.
SVO – Irma Guevara
That 19th of December 2001, when there were so many
casualties in our country, I went round the neighbourhood with a neighbour to
convince the young people not to plunder or steal, because our shopkeepers work
hard too.
mother – no SVO
We need that. This way I can at least give my children
a substantial meal three times a week.
grandmother – no SVO
Sometimes I do not eat anything so that I can give
them something to eat. What else can we do? We do what we can.
WORLD BANK
COMMENTARY (on WB building and aerial shot)
24:28
High above the misery, high above the tumult in the
streets, the World Bank is defending its approach, not to the crisis, but to
the social unrest.
SVO – Axel Van Trotsenburg, Manager World Bank
We fund the biggest benefits programme. Unemployed
heads of households receive 45 Euros per month. We are talking about 1.9
million households. This is central to calming the social unrest.
DEMONSTRATION LILIANA AND MADRES
Commentary
(read at second shot)
25:03
27 years after the coup. Just like every year the
victims are commemorated.
(demonstrators)
Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, the people embrace you.
SVO - Liliana Galeano (place on second subtitle)
(OFF) My father was killed during the dictatorship. He
worked for the telephone company, he was a montonero, which was the armed
resistance in 1976.
LA MATANZA 2
Liliana Galeano - OFF - no SVO
The poorest are looking for a way out to be able to
live, and for them occupying the land is an alternative.
COMMENTARY
26:29
When Liliana occupied this land with a hundred
families this was all still countryside.
Liliana Galeano - no SVO
Together we built 160 houses here. We have lived here
for five years now.
COMMENTARY
26:46
In order to make their neighbourhood habitable this
young community has to take its own initiatives, take care of its own water,
electricity, and a bakery.
baker – no SVO
We used to bake the bread over there, in that clay
oven. Now we want to be able to work better.
Liliana Galeano - no SVO
We want to buy new machines for the bakery and a new
oven
GATHERING
SVO – Anna Osores
When we first moved here it was very hard, we had
nothing, no roads, no electricity, no water, nothing. We have learned to share
here.
man OFF – no SVO
Since I became unemployed, I have gotten to know many
other unemployed. This has helped me a great deal.
man continued
SVO – Hugo Allala
This was all new for me, I did not know about these
sorts of social movements. A month later I helped block
the road for the first time.
Liliana – no SVO
We do not want any more undernourished children here.
Our children cannot be allowed to die.
CUSTER
OFF Custer
That mural is a symbol of our struggle.
Commentary (read immediately after quote)
28:30 Carlos Custer, from an Argentine government
trade union, dreams of an efficient government as it only exists in this
painting. He has lived to see it all, the dictatorship and the total opening up
of the Argentine economy.
SVO – Carlos Custer, Government trade union
Neoliberalism with its promise of modernisation and
prosperity and privatisation as the countryÕs future, has made this rich
country, which was a welfare state, a country filled with poverty and social
exclusion, and has done so largely under the protection of the IMF and World
Bank who were the 'teachers' of this policy.
LA CAVA
SVO - Marcos Cianni
Here we are walking in a typically middle class
neighbourhood, with blue-collar workers, traders and white-collar workers. It
is these people who are now beginning to have a hard time. But they do have a
number of services left, they are hanging on to them, they are on the verge of
losing them. But they still have asphalt roads, basic services, telephone,
access to education, they live in better conditions. This is where the most
marginal part of the neighbourhood starts, where the
poorest live, those who are excluded most.
Commentary
30:23
In Marcos and AnaLIaÕs home nobody has a job. They are
studying to become teachers and they work as volunteers in this La Cava
neighbourhood, the pit.
OFF Analia
14,000 to 16,000 people live in this slum on 16
hectares.
older woman, piquetera – no SVO
We have blocked the road, we wanted aprons for the
school children, but the council is not giving anything. I worked for the
council for five months and was not paid. So I joined the street pickets, just
like Marcos did.
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All prices have gone up. Milk has doubled in price,
those who look carefully will pay even double of that. The same goes for sugar.
Meat is very expensive. For one Euro you only get three tiny pieces.
SVO - Marcos Cianni
We are arriving at the refectory built by the
community. Children are fed here, there are extra courses for the children, grown-ups
are learning to read and there are cultural activities.
SVO - Analia Pecchinenda
We can tell that they are undernourished from their
length and their weight, those are not normal measurements for their age, and
they are lagging behind in their intellectual development. We notice that when
teaching them.
OFF Marcos Cianni – no SVO
This is where the La Cava neighbourhood stops and the
residential neighbourhood starts. As we can see they are divided by a wall,
like our entire society.
Analia Pecchinenda – no SVO
Throughout the years this wall just kept growing
higher, first only the cement wall, then barbed wire was added, and finally a
live wire
RICH FENCED OFF NEIGHBOURHOOD
Commentary (begin on terrace shot with Julia in the
picture)
33:21 We are meeting up with Julia, she lives in the
familyÕs country house, in a vast area where a lot of Argentine showbiz stars
also live.
SVO - Julia Pontieri
This entire area is fenced off, and there are many
watch towers.
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You can leave the doors open and the keys in the car.
There is also a school and a supermarket here. If you do not want to, you do
not even have to leave the condominium.
Commentary
33:57
However, we do leave the San Diego Country Club and go
look for the real world again.
MALLIMACI
COMMENTARY
34:08
We have an appointment at the public university,
education there is free, more than three hundred thousand students are
benefiting from it. However, it is unclear how much longer, because there is
not a lot of money left. // 34:20 Professor Mallimaci (MALLIMATSCHI) tells us
how big the gap really is.
SVO – Fortunato Mallimaci, Sociology professor
In 1973-74 the poorest 10 percent of Argentina were
seven times poorer than the richest 10 percent. As a result Argentina had a
large middle class. Today that proportion between poor and rich is 1 to 43. So
the wage gap has grown immensely.
RETIRED PEOPLE DANCE THE TANGO
Commentary
35:09
Buenos Aires has plenty of social community centres
for retired people.
SVO - Blanca Denapole
Now the people do not just come here for the social
contact but mainly because their meagre pension
is not enough for them to live off.
SVO - Hortensia Castro
After having worked my entire life, I have to come
here to eat.
(OFF)
They give us breakfast, lunch and afternoon tea here.
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I have been retired since 1983 and have a pension of
45 Euros. I started working when I was 14.
SVO - Luis Rodriguez
Of all the Latin-American countries, I think we have
enjoyed the best life, for many years, and now it is our turn to live in
misery.
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We are the senior citizens, I am 72, we are abandoned
and have no defence.
SVO – Carlos Custer Government trade union
Even the basic pension has now been privatised, your
old-age income, which is the result of many yearsÕ work.
Commentary
36:30
These privatised pension funds have many debts. The
Argentines are no longer sure that they will get a pension at all, however
small, after all there is no government guarantee anymore.
TANGO SINGING
SVO - Irma Guevara
Everybody feels down we have to watch every single
Euro They sold our gold and our dignity. They continue to surprise us.
PRIVATISATIONS
SVO – Fortunato Mallimaci Sociology professor
Argentina is the only country in Latin-America that
carried out such wild privatisations, everything is gone.
ROSARIO - STATION WITHOUT TRAINS
Commentary
37:02
Shipping, oil, all utilities even the post has been
privatised, with at times unfathomable consequences. Rosario is a city of
millions, bigger than Brussels. There is a train station, but no trains leave
from here anymore.
SVO – JosŽ Abelli, Movement recovered factories
At the start of the previous century, Argentina had
already built an extensive network of railways that ran through the country
from north to south. In the nineties, under presidents Menem and Cavallo,
almost all railway lines disappeared overnight. A couple of lines were
privatised, they laid off 140,000 workers who were never to find a job again in
the labour market.
Commentary
37:52
All transport, of passengers and freight, between
ArgentinaÕs cities now has to be done over road.
JosŽ Abelli, Movement recovered factories – no
SVO
A number of (near) monopolies benefited from the
privatisation, the company that controls the toll collection
on the motorways, the lorry manufacturers, the oil
companies and tyre manufacturers.
JosŽ Abelli, Movement recovered factories – no
SVO
There is not a single rich country that has destroyed
its railways like Argentina has. This is completely irrational.
THE TRAINS OF BUENOS AIRES
JosŽ Abelli, Movement recovered factories – no
SVO
OFF on train in Buenos Aires
The only thing that remains is passenger transport in
Buenos Aires.
Train passenger on moving train – no SVO
Everything degenerated, the seats, windows were
missing, it was extremely filthy, very unsafe as well. 20 days ago a lot
started to improve owing to a legal enforcement order.
Train passenger on stationary train – no SVO
No, I do not have windows, but I get a lot of fresh
air.
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It is unsafe, nobody ever cleans, windows are missing,
it is extremely cold in winter.
Other train passenger on stationary train – no
SVO
It is dreadful, there are no windows even. When it
rains you have to take shelter in the aisle.
MOVING TRAIN
SVO – Luis Cubeddu, International Monetary Fund
Well-executed and well thought-out privatisations are
beneficial. Some privatisations in Argentina have not been a success, the
railways are an example of that.
MOVING TRAIN
SVO - Carlos Custer, Government
trade union
Not only has the train been privatised the fares have
also gone up. However, the amount of subsidies paid by the state is the same as
the loss of the former state enterprise. So, the state continues to grant
almost
one million Euros in subsidies every single day so as
to be able to say that the train has been privatised.
MOVING TRAIN
Luis Cubeddu, International Monetary Fund - no SVO
It is not important whether these companies are
private or state-owned, what is important though is that they function well and
provide the required service.
EDUCATION
COMMENTARY (read from second shot)
40:51
The crisis can also be felt in education, many young
people drop out of school early. And the so-called better public schools, like
this one, suddenly see pupils emerge from the private schools that have become
unaffordable for their parents. //
The teachers themselves are underpaid.
SVO - Roberto
Caseros, Head teacher
Now a teacher earns 100 Euros per month, of course you
cannot live on that. That is how the taxi-teacher
phenomenon came about. They work from 7 oÕclock in the
morning and finish at 11 in the evening, in very different schools.
COMMENTARY (read almost immediately)
41:35
As is the case for us, most of the teachers are
female. And now there is often an unemployed husband at home. Our teachersÕ
wages are often the sole source of income for the family.
HEALTHCARE
COMMENTARY (read after second shot)
41:52
Public hospitals still exist, but they are beginning
to have a hard time, both the small and the big ones : there is hardly any
money and there are many more people, namely all those who used to be able to
afford a private clinic.
SVO - Horacio Tur, Physician
That is because people lost their social security due
to unemployment.
SVO -
Abelardo Erausquin Neurologist
We see the diseases of poverty reappear, malnutrition,
tuberculosis caused by poor living conditions and a shortage of potable water.
(Horacio Tur)
The equipment has become three to four times more
expensive.
(Abelardo Erausquin)
We are talking about basic necessities like syringes
and gloves, both are imported.
(Horacio Tur)
As a result, the healthcare budget is insufficient.
LARGE DEMONSTRATION
COMMENTARY (on image large demonstration)
43:06
The Argentine politicians are not solving the
problems, and the new social movements of the so-called piqueteros, and born
again trade unions are still too weak for the time being to turn the tide. They
have thought about a solution already though.
SVO - Claudio Lozano
What should happen at economic level? A much better
distribution of incomes, creating space for
Argentine companies, and for that purpose our
political democracy should function well.
IMAGE DEMONSTRATION (with Lila and Marcos amongst
others)
SVO – Fortunato Mallimaci Sociology professor
(beginning is OFF)
Wages have to increase, if not even wage earners are
poor. The government should redistribute wealth
more fairly. If the wages go up, poverty will be cut
by half.
STUDENTS
Commentary
43:58
The professor believes in it, his students are less
convinced.
(female student)
To be honest, I do not see a great future for me here,
(student)
The future of my country is uncertain, there is very
little work.
(student)
My future here, fantastic.
(female student)
I would like to leave the country, just like many of
my fellow students.
(student who then walks away)
If you take a gloomy view of things, you have to
leave. But I am staying.
Sorry, but I have to go to class.
ITALIAN EMBASSY
Commentary (read after three to four seconds)
44:39
The next day.
Just like every single morning, at the crack of dawn there are long
queues in front of the Italian embassy.//
Argentines of Italian origin are there to pick up a
passport.
various interviews - no SVOs
I want to go to Italy to work, to improve my social
life.
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It is going bad, it is a magnificent country, It hurts
me to leave but life is not like it used to be anymore.
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The country is a heap of rubble and it is constantly
getting worse.
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Coffee, coffee with milk, Cafe latte.
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All our political leaders have failed at every level.
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I have to be selfish. I have to think of my future and
that of my children.
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If it is this bad, you leave.
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Otherwise you grow old, and nothing changes.
TANGO
CREDIT TITLES
report : Dirk Barrez
photography : Jan Van Bilsen
sound : Luis Lopez
editing & mixing : Gert Van den Cruijce - ITP
research and interpreting: Natasha Casteleyn
production : Jessie Van Couwenberghe and IIWE
in cooperation with the International Institute for
WorkersÕ Education