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MARCO: Now turn to the right.
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Perfect, now straight.
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Take it easy, you've got it.
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You're doing really well.
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FABIOLA: - Yes!
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MC: On the night of 26 November [2019],
during the social outbreak,
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she left her home in San Bernardo to
do her shift at a Carozzi factory.
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When she was waiting at a public transport stop,
a policeman located 50
metres away,
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launched a tear gas canister that
hit her in the face.
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POLICE: Another one!
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That was good.
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MC: Upon being shot, she fell to the ground
and lost consciousness.
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POLICE: Let’s go, let’s go!
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MC: The police forces continued to fire tear gas
and then left without providing any medical assistance,
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despite the fact that at least two policemen saw
that someone had been
injured.
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POLICE: He hit her, right?
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Damn it.
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MC: She was taken to a hospital by neighbours.
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As a result of the impact, her two eyeballs burst,
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she suffered a head trauma, fractured
the bones of her face and skull,
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which left her blind and without
a sense of smell or taste.
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I will never get my eyes
back.
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MARCO: Hang on, there is a ramp at the corner.
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FABIOLA: Alright.
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It was proposed to me by
our people
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to run for the position
of senator.
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and I decided to do it.
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My motivation is wanting
there to be justice in this country.
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And not just justice for
what happened to me,
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but justice for all
those whose
rights were violated in
Chile.
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AUDIO FROM MALE NEWS REPORTER (AMERICAN):
It’s the worst crisis
the country has seen in more than three decades
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AUDIO FROM FEMALE NEWS READER (AUSTRALIAN):
Protests that started
over a rise in metro fares have provoked a state of emergency in Santiago
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AUDIO FROM MALE NEWS REPORTER (AMERICAN):
Dozens of protestors
have suffered wounds from firearms and have sustained injuries to the face and
torso from projectiles like tear gas canisters and rubber pellets
TOS: Over 400 people were blinded or suffered ocular injuries at the hands of police
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Hi - my name is Fabiola Campillai
and today I’m running as a candidate for senator
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FABIOLA: I support freedom for the political
prisoners of the social outbreak
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I support all the work that will achieve the justice
and reparations very much needed in this country
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For all the peoples, rural dwellers, indigenous,
as well the Diaguita
community that I also represent.
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FABIOLA: We’re going to the senate, with you,
with the people and the working class!
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To think that I was elected
with the first majority
in votes
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It was a dream
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FABIOLA: Where do I stand to speak to everyone?
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CLAUDIA: Towards the right.
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Turn a little to the left, great, just like that.
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FABIOLA: Hi everybody!
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We're only a few days away from taking
on the great challenge that we have coming up.
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Any problems you might have, remember - I'm not sick,
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today I am someone with a disability,
but I have the ability to think and
resolve issues.
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So let's make sure that the people are
very satisfied with us,
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I feel confident in the people I have around me.
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And let's make it so that those who voted for me
will do it again when I run for president!
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I'm just kidding!
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NICOLE: I'm Nicole Kramm, I've worked in
communication for the
last 8 years,
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I begun working by reporting on the
social upheaval
that the mainstream media was trying to silence,
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I'm also one of the people that were
harmed by the state,
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I took a compressed air bullet to the eye,
so I lost sight in
one of them.
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That also motivated me on this quest
to seek justice and
truth
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CAROLS: I'm Carlos Astudillo.
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On the third day of the revolts, I was shot
by the Chilean army, I almost died.
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But we are on this path, looking for justice,
reparations and above all dignity.
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More than two years have
passed,
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but finally
my attacker will be charged
for the injuries he has
caused me.
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FABIOLA: I wish ... hope... I'm almost getting it!
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I hope that the date of ... the trial is
as soon as possible. Is that right?
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YERKA: Why do you want this?
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Exactly, so the the word justice has to be in there.
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FABIOLA: - Ah I get it, because I
hope for justice.
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I hope that the trial is as soon as possible so that we can
have justice.
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YERKA: Exactly.
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FABIOLA: - Got it, let's do it.
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We begin on the path to justice,
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the oral trial preparation hearing will begin on the 7 March
[2022]
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I hope that justice is served,
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condemning the policeman Patricio Maturana
to the maximum sentence.
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I wish the day of the trial to be as soon
as possible
so
I can get justice.
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Yeah, perfect.
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- Where is my bag?
- I've got it here.
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I've been with my jacket all day because I was cold,
now that we're leaving I feel hot!
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We're going there by car.
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At first this was very
difficult,
to arrive at your house
and not be able to see anything.
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At first this was very
difficult,
to arrive at your house
and not be able to see anything.
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You just have to make do
with remembering the faces
of the most important
people in your life.
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FRANCES: These are cheese and tomato flavour.
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BASTIAN: They are very tasty, sister!
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FABIOLA: Basti, how did it go at the match?
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BASTIAN: We won 1 - 0 , and the
match was really fun.
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CLAUDIA: Hurry, they're closing the Hall of Honour soon.
FABIOLA - Yes, let's go.
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CLAUDIA: All good?
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FABIOLA; Today I'm learning the path I'll make
on the day of the ceremony,
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I'd like to be able to do it on my own.
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DANIELLA: This is going to be a great training for you
to get used to talking
to the press.
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If anything goes wrong you just need
to say:
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"Thank you comrades, time is
ticking, I have a meeting,
I'm sorry I need to go".
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YERKA: Okay? just stay calm and
everything will be alright.
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FABIOLA: - Where do I leave my water?
YERKA: - I've got it.
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Let's do a practice walk.
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MARIELLA: We'll walk now, counting.
Let's go Senator, let's do this right.
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One, two, three, four, five, six,
seven, eight, nine, ten.
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You will need to stand in this place,
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here you have all the senators and
the gallery behind
you,
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and in front we have the podium with the president,
vice-president and the senate authorities.
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- Here is where you will be sworn in.
MAN - That's right.
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FABIOLA - Right.
MAN - Very well.
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MARIELLA - After this she'll go back to her cubicle, right?
MAN - That's right.
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YERKA: Here is the Chilean constitution.
The one we are going to change.
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It's right there.
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- Do it yourself.
CLAUDIA - They are going to turn it on.
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You need to make sure that the microphone is like that,
it's
a long stick that goes up and down.
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Right, there we go, now use your left hand to...
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There are the buttons.
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YERKA: Do you want to do it once again?
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FABIOLA: - Yes.
YERKA: - Okay let's do it all over again.
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MARIELLA: Here there is like a gap, so if your shoe
gets too close it can
get stuck...
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That's it.
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MAN - That's it.
FABIOLA: - No, you need to...
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No, she said that if I was here, it was all good.
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WOMAN’S VOICE OFF CAMERA: Maybe one more step.
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Let's see how we hear it first.
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FABIOLA: I do.
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YERKA: You're great there.
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MARCO: Very well.
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FABIOLA: I did it!
Thank you very much!
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Thanks for waiting and sorry for the time.
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FABIOLA: Today I feel very glad to be able to represent
all the 400 thousand
voters,
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The people are going to be in the senate
on this historic date,
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through a woman, a worker, a Diaguita,
a mother,
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a woman that fell victim to the repression
of this very state and government,
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you know that I support freedom for
the political prisoners of the social outbreak.
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and today they are in prison and the real perpetrators
are free roaming the streets.
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We are going to work to achieve the justice
and reparations that are very much needed,
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SENATOR: Mrs. Fabiola Campillai
Rojas.
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Do you swear to keep to the constitution of the republic,
and to carry out your role to the nation with loyalty?
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I swear.
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Congratulations, senator Campillai!
- Thank you!
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I'd never held any of
these positions.
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I wasn't a mayor, I
wasn't a council member, I'd
never been in such
places, let alone the senate.
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A place of the privileged few.
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The reparations table
begins with these participative
meetings that we hold
all over the country.
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This is so that we can
gather all the information we need,
because we still don't
know how many survivors there are,
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or how many people have
been murdered or tortured.
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FABIOLA: Nobody can know our pain, because each one of us has
great pain,
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whether it is our political prisoner friends,
or ourselves, who have been
mutilated or tortured.
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We have been waiting for more than
three years for justice, which hasn't happened.
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FAMILY MEMBER OF VICTIM: My son was kidnapped from Cerro
Belén, tortured and had to spend six months in
preventive detention and then house arrest.
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and the trial took place, and happily he was acquitted.
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But who erases everything he had to live through in prison?
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When he was kidnapped in that van, when he was tortured.
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When I am at these meetings my soul aches because I think why
am I here?
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FAMILY MEMBER OF VICTIM:
My brother died and he's never coming back,
and with him the best part of us died.
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My brother was accused in the news as
burning, looting and stealing.
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No, my brother wasn't a thief.
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And now we're all stained.
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All I ask of you, Senator, please, I beg you, don't forget
about our dead.
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MAN: Our friend Manuel Cura...
CROWD - Present!
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MAN: Our friend Luis Toledo!
CROWD: - Present!
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MAN & CROWD: From now on and always.
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Now a report is being
prepared from
all those meetings, with
all our demands
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so that we may hand it
over
to the President of the Republic.
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PEDRO: Madam, this is the Undersecretary of Human Rights.
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XAVIER: Ms Senator.
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Thank you very much for having me.
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FABIOLA: Welcome.
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XAVIER: I really appreciate you being able to have me.
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Thank you very much for coming so that we can talk.
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We have been hurt and are still hurting; there is little
space in our minds left for trust.
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We should let the people know that the president will support
this measure, because we have had our doubts.
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So the most important thing is for the
reparations table to progress, and to speed up the process.
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But the chamber of deputies is very polarised,
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hopefully they will be able to fulfil
the needs of this law and of our people.
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And we hope that once the president revises it, the
reparations law will be passed without issues.
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Those who want to change everything,
those who want to fight for a better Chile,
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for a better future for all our people, are attacked from
all sides.
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We need to ensure that our victims, and us,
have comprehensive reparations.
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We must ensure that human rights violations never happen
again.
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CHILD: A penguin!
FABIOLA: - You want a penguin?
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The investigation which
led to the trial of my attacker lasted almost three years.
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It was difficult to
wait, and to think that
so much time had passed
without justice.
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In other words, it was
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a trial of almost four
months
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We declare that Patricio Maturana will be charged to 12
years and 183 days of prison,
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and a lifetime ban from public posts and political
rights.
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Even if he'll be in
prison for 12 years,
I will be blind for my
whole life.
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When I finally woke up
after a week in intensive care,
I still didn't
understand what was going on with my eyes.
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Until the doctor told my
husband that he
had to tell me the truth
about my eyes.
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I felt the need to talk
to my husband,
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That the moment had come
for him to choose whether
to leave,
because this was going to be difficult.
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He replied that he had
married me for life.
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That's when I really
felt my husband's great love for me.
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WOMAN: I'm a woman with disabilities and
I want to thank you for representing me.
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MC: Now I have the honour of
presenting the first independent majority of the senate of this country,
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CROWD: Fabiola Campillai!
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FABIOLA: I am happy to be here because I feel you,
I don't see you but I feel your
strength, I feel your fight.
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Feel it! Hear it! Long live those who fight!
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CROWD: Fabiola Campillai!
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AUDIO FROM RADIO INTERVIEW WITH MARIA LUISA CORDERO:
Brace yourselves, because Campillai has been revealed
as not blind.
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One of her eyes still works.
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The other day a guy found her talking on the phone,
took a photo and leaked it onto the internet.
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Yet she's stirring things up all over
the country and lighting fires, lord knows!
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She is not totally blind.
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SENATOR: The venomous attack that she has just received from
Deputy Cordero was inhumane.
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Unscrupulous.
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She has all our solidarity and our support,
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and honestly Congresswoman Cordero is not even in a position to insult the senator, as she did today.
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She has offended not just her but I
believe that
many more people feel insulted by these declarations.
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MAN: She's just said this now.
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CLAUDIA: Just a bit of lipstick and we're ready.
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Oh, how pretty you look today!
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A beautiful patriot.
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FABIOLA: I'm not a patriot!
MARIELLA: - One of the good ones!
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I would enter now.
CLAUDIA: - Me too.
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FABIOLA: You mean now?
CLAUDIA: - Yes, right now.
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SENATOR: [She said] “They discovered that she can see.”
00:22:06:16 - 00:22:11:01
MARIELLA: “...That she can see”! That’s your cue. Go!
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FABIOLA: Ok, let's go quickly.
00:22:14:19 - 00:22:17:00
CLAUDIA: Of course. This is great.
00:22:18:20 - 00:22:20:15
MARIELLA: Open the door Claudia,
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I’ll do it!
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SENATOR: Fabiola Campillai was hit
by a tear gas bomb, completely losing her vision.
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I think that a statement by the senate chamber regarding the
facts that have been released with respect to the deputy is important.
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All our solidarity goes out to
our colleague at the bench, Fabiola Campillai.
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FABIOLA: Good afternoon, senators.
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I thank them for this support.
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I wanted not to have lived and I
wanted not to remember.
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An operation which opens a head from ear to ear in one
direction.
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And when I left the room, the suffering was enormous.
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There were tremendous pains that you can't even imagine.
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Every time I cannot see my children or my husband,
I am reminded again of what happened to me.
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It's terrible to have lived what I
experienced.
00:23:46:16 - 00:23:52:14
But it is even more terrible when you're reminded
of everything you've been through with their lies.
00:23:54:14 - 00:23:56:02
Thank you very much.
00:24:35:04 - 00:24:38:12
If they attack you it's because you're doing something right,
00:24:38:12 - 00:24:42:18
it's because you really represent a threat to them.
00:24:43:17 - 00:24:51:00
I'm going to keep doing what
I have
to do, to make change.