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NC Noticias, NC Noticias

 

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News station, news station

 

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The news station with the slogan 'inform for peace'

 

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that was founded during the peace negotiations.

 

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Yadira, focus on camera 1.

Pretend that we are live already.

 

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I am Yadira Suárez

and I am an anchor for the news channel NC Noticias.

 

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This is Fabian, my co-presenter.

 

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Hello. How are you?

 

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He's good-looking, isn't he?

 

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That's only because of the make-up.

 

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In the year 2000, I joined the Farc.

 

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I was 16 when they pushed a microphone under my nose

and I had to anounce a press statement.

 

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We went live immediately.

 

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Since I was a little girl I dreamed

of becoming a reporter or news anchor.

 

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Everybody ready?

 

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We're starting in ten minutes.

 

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5, 4, ..

Yadira, are we ready?

 

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Dear compatriots, the war is over.

Welcome to peace.

 

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Indeed, Yadira.

 

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This is the news

for which Colombia has been waiting for over 50 years.

 

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Yes we can!

 

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Colombia is experiencing

the end of an era.

 

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The battle between the Colombian government

and the Marxist rebels of the Farc

 

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was the longest running armed conflict worldwide

 

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and killed more than a quarter of a million Colombians.

 

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For the first time in more than 50 years,

there is peace.

 

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This is where the armed conflict with the Farc ends.

 

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But the agreement remains controversial.

 

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The Farc used brute force

and financed the war with kidnappings and drug trafficking.

 

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Not all Colombians were willing

to leave the past behind

 

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and a narrow majority rejected

the agreement in a referendum.

 

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The reaction of the people which we now see in all the cities,

 

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is the consequence of impunity.

 

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Yet President Santos persevered.

 

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The peace agreement

for which he received the Nobel Prize

 

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went in effect

at the end of 2016.

 

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NC Noticias is a product

of that peace agreement.

 

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Yadira experienced the negotiations

from the first row in Havana.

 

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In 2015, I was sent to Havana as

representative of the Farc delegation.

 

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We started a news bulletin

which targeted guerilleros only.

 

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We called it 'The rebellious news'

 

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and it served to inform the guerrilla fighters in Colombia

about how the situation was evolving.

 

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But we have radically changed our approach

in order to reach a wider audience.

 

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We didn't want to make propaganda for the Farc any more.

 

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We have converted ourselves into a wider platform

that pays attention to the social signs of the people.

 

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They really wanted to make

of NC news a professional thing.

 

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It is important for the Farc because they can see

how they can re-incorporate into civilian society.

 

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And projects like this show the other combatants

that might not be involved in this specific project that it is possible.

 

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That indeed remains the big challenge.

 

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for a lasting peace,

all 7000 former Farc rebels

 

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have to find their place

in the society they have been fighting for decades.

 

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The government housed them

in 26 camps all over Colombia.

 

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There they handed in their weapons

and started preparing for their reintegration.

 

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We visited one of the camps,

in Mesetas, south of the capital Bogota.

 

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The sights are changing along the way.

 

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The roads become bumpier

and the landscape more inhospitable.

 

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This used to be Farc terrain.

 

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This is probably the biggest

of the 26 Farc camps throughout Colombia.

 

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There are almost 250 former rebels

preparing for their reintegration in society.

 

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Aldinever acknowledges the importance of reintegration.

But the support is late and is not thorough enough.

 

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The agreement prescribes that for our reintegration

 

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we have to set up some projects

that generate income.

 

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And the government is obligated

to support us in a variety of ways.

 

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But more than a year has passed

and nothing has come of it yet.

 

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So people are giving up because there are no possibilities

to build a future of their own.

 

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I hope that peace will stand

and the procces will progress.

 

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But the fight continues!

 

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Because the people are still here,

as are the social problems.

 

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We won't throw in the towel.

 

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And so Aldinever and his comrades

set up various cooperative projects to prepare for the future.

 

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That’s important, because now they still get a small benefit

but later they will be on their own.

 

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One of the cooperatives they want to start up

is an ecotourism project.

 

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It will offer tourists a guerrilla experience.

 

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The accompanying hotel is already built.

 

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The hotel has 18 accomodations.

 

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It is now for 80-85% finished.

 

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Here, we would like to welcome tourists

from Colombia and from all over the world.

 

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Here they can learn about the history of the Farc.

 

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The tourist tours are still being mapped out,

but we are able to already visit a number of places.

 

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Our guide is Einer Lopez.

 

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This is comrade Marulanda,

founder of the Farc.

 

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He always told us: "Don't follow people, follow ideas.

The ideas on the liberation of the people."

 

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"I can die tomorrow

but someone else will succeed me."

 

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That's what happens to everyone

and that's what happened to him.

 

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Just because we have reached an agreement with the government

and handed in our weapons,

 

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doesn't mean we are also handing in our principles.

 

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Einer remains faithful to his ideas.

 

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Just like the guerillero's way of life,

they are part of this tour.

 

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This is a guerillero stove.

 

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This is where you put the wood.

 

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Then you light it and you have a fire.

 

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Fire comes out there and there

so that's where you can cook.

 

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You poke the fire and you blow and then you can eat.

 

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That's how a guerillero stove works.

 

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Here's the camp where the people used to sleep.

 

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As a guerillero it is completely normal

to sleep in the jungle.

 

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For us, it was an honour

to be a guerillero.

 

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To offer resistance to the government

with the limited resources we had.

 

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For us, it was an honour.

 

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Einer seems to miss the guerrilla life.

 

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But through these tours

he keeps the memory alive.

 

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Our last stop

brings us to a hidden waterfall.

 

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We discovered this during the war.

 

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Thanks to the guerilla life

we got to know different spots.

 

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And now during the peace process we think

that they could become touristic attractions

 

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from which we can earn an income

that we can use to reintegrate the former rebels.

 

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We hope to be able to live off it, all of us.

 

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Not only the rebels have to benefit from it

but also the surrounding communities.

 

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Nothing is individual here,

everything is focused on the community.

 

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Back in the camp,

life goes on.

 

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The residents can take

courses on a daily basis.

 

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Alexander and his wife Maria

learn agricultural techniques here.

 

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This [the training] is very important

for our reintegration on the countryside.

 

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We are familiar with the traditional techniques

 

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but we're noticing

there are many thing we didn't know yet.

 

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With that knowledge we can make the land more productive.

 

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Thanks to this training.

 

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But then they need to have

ground to work on.

 

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Land reforms are part of the peace agreement,

but they are delayed.

 

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We assumed that the government would have

at least granted us a piece of land

 

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that we could work on collectively.

 

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To date, that's not the case.

 

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They are part of the agricultural cooperatives

but they have also set up their own project to grow pigs.

 

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The first step is to build

a stable for those pigs.

 

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We have to put a shelf under that.

 

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You have to

put them this way, so they fit.

 

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There's a farmer hiding in every former guerillero

 

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We mainly come from the countryside.

 

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And we want to stay here,

on the countryside.

 

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But we are working on a future

in which we can have personal belongings too

 

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and a land to work on

 

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so we can feed our children

 

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and so they can move forward in life

 

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Peace is no guarantee of a certain future,

but it does offer more opportunities for love.

 

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A normal couple is able to stay together

 

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But with the Farc that wasn't possible.

 

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We had to make the tasks and the deals

we had made, our top priority.

 

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So even though we were madly in love,

whe both had to go our own way.

 

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We thought: if it's meant to be,

we will see each other again in the future.

 

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And here we have met each other again.

 

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With this button you turn it off.

 

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- Which one?

- This one. Off

 

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- Off. Oh okay.

- And on.

 

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Some six days ago, we moved to this house.

And we are happy here.

 

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There are six people living here in total, but we get along well.

 

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We are part

of the editorial team of NC Noticias.

 

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- How many channels are there?

- About sixty HD channels.

 

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- Why so big?

- In order to watch on a big screen.

 

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- You can see clearly like this.

- He won't miss a thing.

 

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- To watch the complete world cup.

 

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The integration process of Yadira and her colleagues

started in Havana 3 years ago.

 

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Now they are trying to create

a home in Bogota.

 

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It's a beautiful one.

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.

 

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We are living a normal life now.

 

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After spending so much time in the jungle,

 

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this is somewhat stressful.

 

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But we are living here now

and we have to learn to deal with that

 

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because we have to work here.

 

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In the jungle we worked for the radio

and we made propaganda.

 

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Only once I was

involved in a fight.

 

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We were ambushed.

It all happened really fast.

 

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I had to fire some shots all around,

but it was over in a second.

 

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After that, I've never had to fight again.

 

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Before I tell someone I'm with the Farc,

 

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I try to build a relationship first

 

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so they get to know me

and can see that I'm normal.

 

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After that, I tell them

that I work here or that I'm with the Farc.

 

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Most of them are not surprised,

 

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because they've already

talked to me and laughed with me.

 

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When Yadira arrives at the editorial floor,

a lot of people are already working to prepare the 7 o'clock news.

 

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There's important news: the Farc is considering

 to interrupt its political campaign termporarily.

 

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The central theme

is the suspension of the campaign of the Farc

 

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Because they encountered violence.

 

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The stress kicks in later.

It's only two o'clock now.

 

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I went through the questions

and I know the profile of the guest completely.

 

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Because he is a member

of the politicial council of the Farc.

 

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The Farc is never far away

in the news coverage of NC Noticias.

 

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That’s hardly surprising

when four-fifths of the staff are former rebels.

 

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Journalistic independence

is thus given a unique interpretation.

 

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Of course you could say

that I'm a journalist,

 

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that I'm not defending anyone

and just describe what's happening.

 

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But most of all, I'm an activist.

 

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And of course, I'm with the Farc.

 

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Last year, Farc reformed itself

into a political party.

 

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Victoria Sandino is one of the leaders.

 

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We follow her on a campaign

in a popular neighborhood in Bogota.

 

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Our expectations for today are

 

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to start a dialogue with the people

in an honest and respectful manner.

 

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And to listen

to their opinions and concerns.

 

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The Farc is guaranteed 10 seats in the parliament,

regardless of the result of the elections.

 

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So Sandino is already sure of her seat.

 

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Yet she is campaigning

to warm the people in the barrio's for the new party.

 

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The questions we usually get

are about the peace,

 

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about the agreement

and what's going on with it.

 

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Long live Victoria Sandino.

 

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Long live Timoléon Jiménez

as president of Colombia.

 

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We welcome them with open arms.

Thank you.

 

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The welcome is warm but not many people showed up.

There is still work to be done.

 

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I'm not a former rebel,

because I keep fighting.

 

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I fight for peace,

for social change, to change this country.

 

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We're not asking to change the universe.

 

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We want to change the lives of the people.

And offer them a worthy life.

 

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Welcome to NC Noticias' news.

 

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These are the headlines.

 

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The Farc is suspending its campaign

because of aggression and a lack of guarantees.

 

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The Farc can’t count

on an equally warm welcome everywhere.

 

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In several cities where she campaigns,

people protest on the streets.

 

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The resentment is still deeply rooted.

 

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It's a good thing that the civilians are protesting.

 

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And it's a good thing that the civilians are denouncing

the presence of the Farc in their cities and streets.

 

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Alejandro Ordoñez understands the anger.

 

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He campaigns with the promise

to make the Farc pay for their actions.

 

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And he reaps success with that.

 

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According to millions of Colombians,

for the last 50 years the Farc has

 

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caused a lot of suffering, blood and grief

among countless victims.

 

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The soul of the Colombians has outed itself,

it has cried and is indignant.

 

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That's why the Colombians reacted.

 

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They showed that crime

should most definitely be punished.

 

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What lacks here is justice.

 

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We, the victims, have no right to anything.

 

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Justice! Justice!

 

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The call for prosecution is loud

 

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but the amnesty for the Farc

is a crucial element of a balanced peace agreement.

 

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If the right-wing block of Ordoñez

delivers the new president in June,

 

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all of that might come into question.

 

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The Farc are frightened of that scenario.

 

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They are vulnerable without their weapons.

 

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Therefore, they continue

to fully support the peace.

 

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We know that a lot of things can happen.

 

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During the war we already risked

murder or kidnapping or ending up in prison.

 

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We're still risking those things.

Especially because we no longer have weapons.

 

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We are now more vulnerable than we were then.

 

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But we also know that we

can cope with every situation.

 

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I'm here for our duties,

our commitments for peace.

 

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Ant the peace of the country is the peace of our people.

 

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Hopefully we don't return

to a conflict situation.

 

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I don't want to imagine

getting caught up in a conflict again.

 

00:19:59:15 - 00:20:02:08

I want the peace to progress,

I want the agreement to progress.

 

00:20:02:08 - 00:20:04:03

But nobody can question it.

 

00:20:04:12 - 00:20:07:20

We've always known

that it wouldn't be an easy process.

 

00:20:08:05 - 00:20:11:24

But I've never questioned the peace process.

And here I am.

 

00:20:12:09 - 00:20:18:10

Yadira realizes that it will take time

and she is aware of the wounds created by 50 years of war.

 

00:20:18:17 - 00:20:21:07

You won't hear me say

that we never caused pain.

 

00:20:21:10 - 00:20:22:14

Of course we did.

 

00:20:22:19 - 00:20:24:05

We made mistakes.

 

00:20:24:11 - 00:20:26:14

We left behind widows and orphans.

 

00:20:26:14 - 00:20:27:14

That's true.

 

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That was in the middle of the conflict.

 

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And that's why we

put an end to this war.

 

00:20:32:01 - 00:20:37:05

Now we have to heal the wounds

and a reconciliation process will follow.

 

00:20:37:08 - 00:20:41:00

Reconciliation.

It's a word we repeat every day here.

 

00:20:48:06 - 00:20:52:23

What do people who have lived

in conflict areas for decades think about reconciliation?

 

00:20:57:06 - 00:21:03:17

Benedicto Gambo Escobar welcomes us in San Juan de Arama,

a small town not far from the camp.

 

00:21:03:17 - 00:21:07:13

He was mayor there

when the battle with the Farc was still raging.

 

00:21:08:02 - 00:21:11:00

Twice, our town

has been brutally

 

00:21:11:00 - 00:21:15:04

run down and occupied

by the Farc.

 

00:21:15:04 - 00:21:19:14

During the last invasion,

I was mayor.

 

00:21:19:14 - 00:21:22:05

The 21st of August 2001.

 

00:21:22:19 - 00:21:25:12

He shows us a book

with photographs displaying the havoc.

 

00:21:25:21 - 00:21:28:19

These buildings right in front of us,

 

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were all under siege

during the invasion of the guerilla.

 

00:21:32:15 - 00:21:34:10

Literally everything was destroyed.

 

00:21:34:19 - 00:21:37:16

The fact remains that during these invasions

 

00:21:37:16 - 00:21:39:09

no civilians died,

 

00:21:39:09 - 00:21:41:16

The guerilla troops forced the people

 

00:21:41:16 - 00:21:44:06

to flee their houses.

 

00:21:45:01 - 00:21:48:10

It was a conflict

between the guerrilla and the government troups.

 

00:21:56:24 - 00:22:01:02

Every one who carries a weapon,

suppresses and intimidates the community

 

00:22:01:06 - 00:22:02:17

and especially those who don't own weapons.

 

00:22:03:11 - 00:22:05:19

The Farc recruited here.

 

00:22:06:03 - 00:22:09:06

One time, they invaded

a school in this village.

 

00:22:09:17 - 00:22:11:20

They kidnapped all the students.

 

00:22:12:01 - 00:22:13:20

People of this village

whom we have never seen again.

 

00:22:14:09 - 00:22:17:14

They stayed in the camps of the guerilla

 

00:22:17:14 - 00:22:19:19

and were never able to leave the conflict.

 

00:22:20:14 - 00:22:23:15

It is sad to say,

but those things happened.

 

00:22:28:08 - 00:22:35:02

Jesus Arena, a poor farmer we meet on the way to the camp,

lost his daughter like that to the Farc.

 

00:22:36:19 - 00:22:40:23

She was in the fifth year of the neighbourhood school.

 

00:22:41:05 - 00:22:43:18

The 13th of May 2000 they took her

 

00:22:44:06 - 00:22:47:24

and until today

we know nothing about her.

 

00:22:48:10 - 00:22:51:04

Here she was 13,

the age at which they took her away.

 

00:22:51:14 - 00:22:58:17

The blouse she's wearing was a gift for her 13th birthday,

three days before her kidnapping.

 

00:23:03:15 - 00:23:05:13

I didn't go to college

 

00:23:05:24 - 00:23:09:12

but I know that

many things can be forgiven.

 

00:23:09:23 - 00:23:13:19

But this really hurts.

 

00:23:15:19 - 00:23:21:01

Yet they hope that the peace agreement will stand

and give them some peace of mind.

 

00:23:25:11 - 00:23:27:09

That is also Benedicto's wish.

 

00:23:28:04 - 00:23:30:10

I understand that not everybody was in favor,

 

00:23:30:10 - 00:23:35:02

but for us who live here,

it has brought back the peace.

 

00:23:35:02 - 00:23:38:15

Only when you acknowledge the true horror of the civil war,

 

00:23:38:22 - 00:23:41:20

you can try to reconciliate the country

 

00:23:41:21 - 00:23:44:09

and leave the past behind.

 

00:23:59:13 - 00:24:04:02

We have to show society

that we are normal people.

 

00:24:04:06 - 00:24:07:23

That we too have feelings,

that we too laugh, cry and suffer.

 

00:24:08:01 - 00:24:11:10

We too have a family

that cries for us and misses us.

 

00:24:11:10 - 00:24:18:08

Our families have lost children too,

guerilleros who have fought in the war.

 

00:24:18:10 - 00:24:22:24

We have all suffered from this war

and that's why it's necessary to put an end to it.

 

00:24:22:24 - 00:24:24:12

And to start over.

 

00:24:25:08 - 00:24:32:00

Is Colombia really ready for a new beginning

or is the past too heavy to simply forget about it?

 

00:24:32:09 - 00:24:35:24

That is the big question

and the stake of the elections.

 

00:24:40:18 - 00:24:45:19

At NC Noticias nobody is excited

to exchange their cameras for weapons again.

 

00:24:45:19 - 00:24:50:20

They keep informing for peace

and tonight they’ll do that live for the first time.

 

00:24:51:22 - 00:24:56:09

This is the first broadcast of NC Noticias.

Good evening, Yadira...

 

00:24:56:09 - 00:24:58:08

- The first live broadcast

 

00:24:59:20 - 00:25:06:03

We are rehearsing the beginning again.

You start by welcoming the people...

 

00:25:06:12 - 00:25:10:15

I'm feeling very happy, emotional,

but at the same time a little nervous.

 

00:25:10:18 - 00:25:15:17

We have been running these trial projects for six or seven months

to go live with our news

 

00:25:15:17 - 00:25:18:09

but this time it's for real.

 

00:25:18:09 - 00:25:20:07

We're going live.

 

00:25:20:07 - 00:25:21:17

And as always

I'm already feeling the adrenaline.

 

00:25:23:06 - 00:25:24:09

Everybody ready?

 

00:25:26:11 - 00:25:28:17

We're going to start in 10 minutes.

 

00:25:30:04 - 00:25:33:02

5,4,...

Yadira, are we ready?

 

00:25:36:20 - 00:25:38:23

A warm welcome to all spectators.

 

00:25:38:23 - 00:25:42:19

Thank you for connecting with us.

 

00:25:43:01 - 00:25:48:18

Goodnight Fabian,

And goodnight to all of you at home.

 

00:25:48:18 - 00:25:55:13

This is the first live emission of NC Noticias,

from the capital of Colombia, Bogota.

 

00:25:55:17 - 00:26:00:11

Thank you everybody for connecting with us.

We will see you tomorrow at 7pm.

 

00:26:00:13 - 00:26:01:13

Goodnight everybody.

 

00:26:01:17 - 00:26:04:07

Goodnight. We hope to see you at 7pm tomorrow.

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