Attention!
Thank you very much.
We are all waiting
to see what the President
wants to do.
Sovereignty is at stake here.
It's not easy to live here.
Everyone thinks we come here,
have it cosy
and a happy life.
No, life is hard here.
Yes, we know.
Life is hard.
I invite you all,
the president, everyone.
Caputo,
everyone who wants to come
and see the factories here.
This story
takes place at the end of the world,
where few dare to go
or at least stay.
Land of fires,
of myths and legends.
Of monsters and shipwrecks.
Of sailors and rebels.
We are in the city of Rio Grande
Its inhabitants sleep
on the cold shores
of the Argentine sea
facing our Malvinas.
Río Grande is the heart
of the most powerful industrial technology hub
in Argentina
and the southernmost in the world, of course.
The island manufactures
600,000 mobile phones per month
and 200,000 televisions.
This... this regime,
is very costly for Argentinians
in terms of money
and in terms of well-being.
This regime is a fraud.
It's a fraud on decent Argentinians.
The island became industrialised
in the 1970s
with Law 19,640,
a regime to promote industrialisation
that favours companies
that invest there.
Tax and customs benefits
which offset the logistical costs.
Thus, large local companies
partnered with Japanese
or American brands.
Then with Chinese ones.
Today, the three owners of the island
are: Mirgor, ] owned by the Caputo family
Newsan, owned by Rubén Cherñajovsky,
and BGH, owned by the Garfunkel family.
On the Patagonian steppes
ravaged by the icy wind,
a powerful industrial park was born.
The dialogue with Javier Milei's government
is a tremendously fluid dialogue,
about everything that's going on.
We are
absolutely aware
of what is happening.
It is true
that business owners have
tax benefits,
but we don't
benefit from this...
the famous trickle-down effect,
just doesn't happen.
People exaggerate, don't they?
In short, what they do
Tierra del Fuego is to assemble products
that come unassembled from abroad,
to sell them locally
with a very large amount
of tax benefits,
very large.
They try put us down by saying
that we are only assemblers
or that we only put in a few screws.
But we do everything in there.
The blank circuit board
has nothing on it yet.
It's a cutting-edge industry
that you don't find in
many places in the world.
There are very few places
that have industrial parks
that are so well established
and with technology that competes
in the top league, so to speak.
On one side, the business chamber
led by three large groups
on the other, more than 10,000
male and female metalworkers
organised in the UOM (Metalworkers' Union)
And more, because an entire town
revolves around them.
The National Government
is going to eliminate
import tariffs on mobile phones.
In May 2025, the Government announced
a measure that threatens to destroy
thousands of jobs.
The response was
an indefinite strike
that sparked a debate in the entire country.
Benja, stop getting your feet wet!
When I hear
that some media outlets say
that we live
at the expense of the rest of the country...
The truth is that
it's offensive first of all
and secondly, the truth is that
honestly, my salary isn't
taking anything away from anyone.
This discussion
is much deeper.
It stems precisely from
a request from the International Monetary Fund
which was immediately followed
by an announcement
from the Southern Command,
that they want to establish a military base
here in Tierra del Fuego.
We manufacture,
televisions
and when I leave work
I have to drive for Uber
It makes you angry that you're
locked up in the factory for nine hours,
then you go home and have a bath
you drink some mate and go out again,
work until eight
or nine, then get home.
You have to cook,
and then you're almost dead.
The idea is
to solve the situation
with calmness and reason.
When the pirate Magellan
arrived here 500 years ago,
he saw a string of fires along the coast.
He noted it on his maps,
Land of the fires.
These were from the Selk'nam,
the original inhabitants of the place.
Those fires of resistance
continue to burn today.
It is happening in Tierra del Fuego.
The government has created
a unified police commando
to contain any potential disturbances.
The workers took to the streets.
The entire province of Tierra del Fuego
is on strike.
Total paralysis.
They have practically paralysed
the province.
The strike will continue indefinitely,
until our demands,
are met.
You have to see what type of people
they are...
Come and see what people do here,
we are a lot of families,
we all depend on work.
Where are we going to work here?
Explain it to me.
In these ten days,
we recognised ourselves as comrades
and decided
to see it through to the bitter end.
Those were cold, rainy days.
It snowed.
It didn't matter,
we were there
supporting the cause.
It was very cold.
The workers
are worried.
It's very stressful because they don't know...
Taking action so that both
the national government
and the provincial government
and the companies understand that
we need to have
job security
for our right
to continue living with dignity
in Tierra del Fuego.
We gather here
during the morning shift
with the fire drums and everything...
we stayed there
with camaraderie,
mate, biscuits and so on.
A small assembly
around 10, 11 o'clock in the morning,
and then, well...
The second shift came at 3 in the afternoon
and kept going.
I mean, as co-workers,
we're all
very supportive
They organise soup kitchens,
And it is
beautiful, too,
because we're all united
and fighting for the same thing.
There was a lot of empathy
among colleagues from other plants
to support us.
Who would have thought that Edu can cook...!
And we are willing
to do whatever it takes. 226 00:10:15,333 We're not ruling anything out
and we will go
to the bitter end.
Those ten days in May,
with the lines stopped
and the pallets burning,
made it clear who moves that monster.
The business contracts
of the big brands
were beginning to be jeopardised.
Will the goods
be assembled and ready by the agreed date?
They asked,
but no one knew...
On the 21st of May
almost all trade unions
joined in a provincial strike.
It was nine degrees below zero.
But the march was historic.
It was a very clear message
to the political and economic powers
not only of the country,
but also of the province.
Teachers and civil servants
who joined en masse,
have been fighting for a long time
against Governor Gustavo Melella's austerity measures
It was very important because
it was the first time in many years
here in Tierra del Fuego, that the whole island
was practically brought to a standstill.
Everyone followed the call to strike,
because obviously
in every family
there is a metalworker,
a neighbour, a son, a brother.
When we saw the support
from the rest of the city
at the provincial level,
the rest of the unions,
that is, the neighbours themselves,
the truth is that, well,
it moved us.
All the citizens,
realised the scale of
this direct attack on the province,
and they took the streets to defend
the province.
There was support from other sectors,
but above all from the community,
from shop-owners,
from all over,
families who don't even work here,
they supported us.
It was powerful,
because there was a lot of support
from the whole province,
there was a huge crowd.
That was the best thing
about these days of strike action
On Friday, the 23rd of May,
the news came of an agreement
signed in Buenos Aires
with the participation
of the National Metalworkers' Union.
This agreement included
guaranteed job security
until the 31st of December,
for all our colleagues
who were there at the beginning of the conflict.
No wage deduction for strike days.
It was obviously
a very intense debate.
We act as a
highly democratic organisation,
obviously with different
opinions and
different criticisms
often concerning the leadership.
That has to be said.
Be careful what you say!
Look, you were always
You were always... .
Watch what you say to us...
We've had to put
the strike on hold
in order to negotiate.
We have to give it time.
The whole province came to a standstill...
What happened is historic...
I know it's historic.
It never happened...
that the province came to a standstill like that...
It never happened and we did it now
and a lot of people
supported us...
Yes, there are videos
of three assemblies where
the debate was quite heated,
against the agreement
and for continuing the strike.
I want to see if the other factories,
agree with the strike or not,
Let's see each other face to face...
We restart their production
and on the 30st of December
they kick us all in the arse...
The debate exists, the debate is there,
There are colleagues who think
that we had to continue
and deep the strike.
I did not agree and
I let them know in the assembly
when they dispersed it,
that the delegates came to speak to us,
I made that known to them...
With Milei
there's no going backwards...
The guy's not backing down.
I understand that things,
are difficult for people economically
and that therefore many
want to stop the strike.
But luckily,
from what I saw,
the vast majority disagreed.
I couldn't understand the agreement.
Many of my colleagues
couldn't understand it,
We came in morning,
to continue the strike,
but then we went back to work.
To make us redundant now made no sense,
because, well,
the material has already been purchased,
the production orders are already secured
until December...
I think there was still strength
to continue for a few more days
or at least to try.
It was the right time,
for me, it was the right time
because you could see
that people were tired.
Yet in the assemblies
there was that profound debate
and by a large majority it was decided
to follow this alternative
which came from the
negotiating table.
The National Metalworkers' Union came,
signed the agreement,
but did not call for
any national actions
to strengthen the struggle in Tierra del Fuego,
but also those on the mainland.
Because what would happen
if 200,000 metalworkers
from Tierra del Fuego to San Nicolás or Jujuy
went on strike together?
You always have to join the strike,
not matter if you agree
with the union leaders, or not.
Or with some trade unionists,
who say we should go on strike.
You may agree or disagree,
but you'll have to go on strike,
if you want to achieve things,
if you want to be better off...
It's the only way to get things,
all the benefits we workers have
were achieved that way...
Anyone who tells me otherwise,
I'll argue with them to the bitter end...
No employer is going to come along
and say out of the blue...
‘Today I'm giving you a pay rise.’
When did that ever happen?
Both, Milei's attack
and the strike that responded to it,
put the spotlight on the island.
The media arrived from Buenos Aires
to report on what was happening,
but they didn't report on everything...
La Izquierda Diario was there to show
what no one else shows, 412 00:16:01,600 - -> 00:16:03,900 how people work and live
in the largest technology hub
of the country.
Those who earn fortunes
that they couldn't spend in 50 lifetimes
and those who struggle day after day...
Here you can see, on this side
the Argentine sea,
and on this side is the Miramar neighbourhood,
one of the last neighbourhoods
that have been built
after occupying
these lands next to the beach.
You can imagine that it is
a very hostile place to live in.
Many workers live here
who have come
during the last wave of migration,
because it is one of the last neighbourhoods
to be built here, on the southern bank.
That neighbourhood
is the most working class of all. 00:16:51,066 because it's the neighbourhood
It's the neighbourhood 435 00:16:51,066 - -> 00:16:52,633 on the south bank
where it was impossible
to build or acquire land
officially,
so people went and took it.
Today,
half the population lives there.
And 90% of those who live there
work in local industry.
Why?
Because they are people who have come from the north,
have found work,
but no place
where to settle.
They had no house to rent.
Can you imagine?
On top of that, until two years ago they didn't have gas.
35% of the island's population
lives in poverty.
That is 70,000 people.
There are 7,000 families without gas,
and 10,000 have housing problems.
Because the wages are too low,
because...
the cost of living is getting more and more expensive.
This forces you.
Today, most people have
two or three jobs.
You live to work.
With the job you have, you can't make ends meet.
It's very difficult.
And besides, it's a province
that's also expensive to live in.
They give you a contract
for a month of shift work,
in a factory, and then maybe
they renew the contract,
but maybe not.
Maybe the next month
you go to another plant, another shift.
They're always changing
depending on what
they need, let's say...
At first I cried
when they gave me my first three-month contract,
because it was three months
of peace of mind,
of knowing that you're going to have a job.
They abuse you a lot,
because they know they can fire you,
because there are many waiting behind you,
trying to get your job.
So for them
you're disposable...
I'm 54 years old and you
reach an age where you say:
"Where are you going to work?"
"What are you going to do?"
"What are you going to do with your life?"
You know that young people
are also looking for work.
Mirgor's profits in 2024
are equivalent to 1/3 of the annual budget,
of the entire province of Tierra del Fuego.
Almost the same amount that was spent on social services,
schools, hospitals, salaries.
Look, I think the reasons for the success
Ehhhhhhh...
is this spirit...
Ehhhhhh...
of creativity...
of development...
This impulse that drives us.
And I think there are certain values
that we apply as well.
Because Caputo,
who owns Mirgor,
he certainly
gets a lot out of it.
It's the factory that
squeezes the most
out of the worker, let's say.
For mobile phone assembly
they hire even more women,
because we have small hands.
That's where they hire more women.
There are people who are...
Well, most of us are broken.
Can you show that?
It's the hands and the elbow.
You can see everything.
We're all like that, look at the two of them
we've had surgery on our hands.
Her, too.
I have it here, here.
Both of them.
Well, you can't tell here because
because the surgeon did a good job.
And why is that?
Tendinitis.
I have the other one here.
That's the famous tendinitis,
this is how work and the work rhythm
affects us.
I was operated on by a shoulder specialist.
Dr Ruiz, a very famous bloke.
We put our body on the line here... 542 00:20:35,766 It's not like you have surgery and then you're fine... 543 00:20:43,100 In my case
I had a lot of pain
in my wrists,
and in my neck.
You're only 20 years old and already
in tremendous pain.
It happens
because of the repetitive work,
and because you don't have time.
It's not that you can
rest whenever you want.
The line keeps going.
It doesn't matter you
if you can't keep on going.
In other words, the line
is relentless, it keeps running.
You have to keep up.
It's an assembly line
where mobile phones pass
and every day you have to
assemble a thousand phones.
you have to attach a thousand little cameras.
It is a job
that hurts you, too.
Your hands, your back.
You do this with the screwdriver
and when the screw is tightened
it gives a little jolt.
That ends up affecting you.
So you're doing the same task
for nine hours a day,
five days a week
and for 11 months a year, so...
Looking for the challenge...
It's like as if we already do it
a bit often, something already...
bores us, right?
It's already... it's boring us, isn't it?
We need to do something new,
something challenging...
Almost 100, 120 people,
are on ART (on sick leave).
In a plant with 800 people.
That's just to give you a ratio, right?
With different types of conditions
and occupational diseases.
The issues of wages
and of destroyed health
are closely linked
to the issue of precarity.
Second-class workers,
third-class workers, and so on...
The year 2024 closed with
with strong profits for Mirgor.
Above 180 million,
190 million pesos.
What are you most proud of
as the CEO of Mirgor?
Seeing that we have managed
that people believe,
that they can do things
that are impossible.
We knew that while
we were assembling the phones
that each costs a monthly wag.
Here goes another wage
and here goes another.
We used to joke about it with our colleagues.
We knew
that in one day, in one shift,
they would make all our wages
with each one of those telephones.
There were ten production lines
with 25 people on each line.
Sometimes when we were
doing very little
on each line,
we made 100 mobile phones.
When we made a lot
we could make up to 800.
In 2024, almost 6 million mobile phones
were manufactured on the island,
and 2 million televisions.
That is 95% of those produced
throughout the whole of Argentina.
At some point,
years ago,
we would have had
good wages, good salaries.
Today, that is not the reality.
An economic study showed
that Mirgor multiplied
its profitability tenfold
between 2023 and 2024.
Half of what he billed
that year went straight
as profit to
Caputo's bank account.
The only privileged ones
in Tierra del Fuego
are a handful of businessmen
who take advantage of
tax benefits,
but above all profit
from the exploitation
of thousands of workers.
According to Forbes, Nicolás Caputo
is among the richest Argentinians,
with a fortune of 340 million dollars.
Caputo never suffers from being cold.
Obviously.
He lives in his luxury homes
in the Cardenal Newman country club
or in the Ocean Tower in Miami.
He bought two flats there
for 12 million dollars.
Diego would have to work
730 years to do the same...
And that system has generated
unimaginable fortunes.
Would you like a demonstration
of what I'm talking about?
Look at this ship.
Carinthia VII.
Renting this ship for a week
could cost more than $1 million.
They say it was bought by
Rubén Chernajovksy,
one of the bosses
together with Nicolás Caputo,
a relative of Santiago Caputo,
and Luis Caputo, etc.
They are the beneficiaries
of the Tierra del Fuego regime.
These are extraordinary profits.
I have always been very concerned
about transparency
Ehhhhh...
of the company and ethics.
For me, it's very important.
An ethical company is essential.
Our group has been doing this for 35 years.
In the last 20 years,
all it has done is
growing
and developing
its business units.
We manufacture or import
in accordance
to the Argentine economy.
The economy opens or closes.
They did good business
with all governments,
with all of them.
Part of that wealth that is generated
today goes to
a fund for the expansion
of the productive investment.
This is a million-dollar fund
managed by
national and provincial officials
together with the managers of large companies.
Wouldn't it be more logical
for the funds that come out
from that industrial fond
and the work of thousands
and thousands of local workers
to be controlled by the people
who generate all that wealth?
How many social problems
could we solve?
In those offices, new deals are struck
at the expense of the island's natural resources
and also the muscles and dreams
of the strikers at the end of the world.
The May strike is not a leaf in the wind.
It is another page,
of a rich history,
of struggles and resistance,
written by the working class
in that land.
The first glimmer
comes from more than 100 years ago.
‘STOP’
The ranch is named after José Menéndez,
one of the last conquistadors.
The Brauns,
and other oligarch families,
had their own king.
Behind him,
they went to the end of the world,
but it turned out to be inhabited.
So the king entrusted
the task of resolving this
to a Scottish mercenary: Alexander Mclean,
alias ‘Chancho Colorado’.
After the first massacres,
he invited the Selk'nam families
to seal the peace at a banquet.
The chosen location,
Cabo Santo Domingo.
When the more than 300 guests had eaten,
‘Chancho Colorado’ ordered them all to be shot.
"It's easier to put
a bullet in them", he said.
With oligarchic governments
and their rifles,
the ranchers
grabbed more than 1.5 million
hectares on the island
and the same in the north.
But that desperate resistance
would leave its mark
for the future.
So, you have to start
at six o'clock and
you leave at seven, that's more than 12 hours.
The workers movement of Tierra del Fuego
was also born here.
Chileans, Creoles,
immigrants who founded
their first trade unions
and staged their first strikes.
In 1921, news arrived of the rebellion
of rural labourers
in Santa Cruz
and the workers in Tierra del Fuego
joined in the cry of
‘if there are no potatoes, there's a strike’.
From Río Gallegos
they sent in the Gendarmerie.
In Santa Cruz, the rebellion continued and continued.
Strikes, occupation of ranches.
President Yrigoyen sent in the army
which encountered resistance.
History repeated itself.
They offered peace,
but they opened fire.
Over a thousand strikers were killed.
That night, the landowners
toasted with their finest wines. 784 00:28:55,800 - -> 00:28:56,866 But no one,
could erase from the workers' memory
the history of rebellious Patagonia,
which Osvaldo Bayer also told us about.
Great chief.
How many are there?
A lot.
Now, show him. Save big time.
It's the country's largest
subscription savings plan.
Up to this point,
and by their own means,
they brought the cattle from the ranch.
The meat processing plant
is the first
major industry in the city,
but time seemed to stand still,
until the 1970s.
Then the dictator Lanusse
created Law 19,640,
a law that sought to
populate the island
with clear geopolitical objectives.
The conflict with Chile,
the proximity of Antarctica,
the Falkland Islands.
But someone had to keep that industry going
and thousands of workers
and their families
arrived from the mainland. 814 00:29:50,366 - -> 00:29:51,433 One day they began
to demand what was theirs...
In the 1980s the dictatorship was not yet over,
when they began to start
rebellions, strikes, marches
and occupations
for the first victories.
The strike of '88 lasted 40 days.
The slogan was "Three to one, to the death".
To move that giant industry
in the middle of the island,
they demanded to be paid
three times the salary
paid in Buenos Aires.
In a letter
to the community
they said:
"We denounce the disproportion
between profits and wages.
With Law 19,640 a few
make fabulous profits."
This time, it was
the workers who toasted to victory.
In May 1994 in Ushuaia
they enforced their 'three to one' demand.
After 18 days of strikes and occupations,
the Buenos Aires media
called them:
‘the stokers of the end of the world’.
If the 1980s had
been about conquest,
the 90s would be about resistance.
At Continental Fueguina,
us colleagues,
we have occupied the factory
for almost two weeks now,
in protest against the outstanding wages
that Continental owes us,
and we demand
the creation of jobs.
In 1995, the delegates
of Continental Fueguina proposed:
a reduction in working hours,
so that no one would lose their job,
and the transfer of the ownership of the factory
to the local administration, so that it does not close.
Menem's Peronist government
had a different strategy,
unemployment and repression.
They're firing real bullets.
Not rubber bullets.
Film it, film it, they killed him.
They killed him, the bastards!
Workers' blood has been spilled
and you don't spill workers' blood just like that.
From now on
mobilisation begins
for the provincial strike
starting tomorrow.
Not only at every workplace
but in every neighbourhood, every resident,
has to take to the streets tomorrow
Mr President,
this is what you
have sent us,
to the working people.
We have nothing to do
with Continental,
we came to defend
the rights of the people.
The national government
has absolutely nothing to do with it.
It sent in
police troops to pacify the...
situation.
On the 12th of April,
the provincial police,
under the command of Governor José Estabillo
killed Víctor Choque on the streets of Ushuaia.
He was the first person to be killed
in a popular protest
since the end of the dictatorship.
The condemnation was overwhelming.
Walter,
I ask, can you hear me...
The uprising in Tierra del Fuego would be
a spark for other fires on the continent.
Jujuy, Córdoba,
Corrientes, Cutral Có, Tartagal.
The resistance
would grow
during Menem's second term
until the outbreak of December 2001.
Oh, they should all just go, not a single one should stay!
Those days a new 00:33:32,733
chapter was written on the island.
Crisis, unemployment and rebellion.
The workers in Tierra del Fuego weren't going to miss out.
They even occupied factories
which ended up under worker management.
We shared out
our earnings
in equal shares
according to our work
and we haven't had to dismiss a single colleague.
The winds of the international economy
and the struggles brought about changes.
New jobs,
other working conditions
and living conditions.
But only up to a certain point,
because no one wanted to touch
the precariousness and fragmentation
of the working class
after the tough 1990s:
Permanent, temporary,
contracted, self-employed.
In 2010, the PPD arrives,
and introduces a type of temporary contract
that guarantees only
four months of work per year.
It's as if the working class
needed to reassemble
its scattered parts.
The companies in Tierra del Fuego
had the highest profit margin
in the global electronics industry.
Then Macri arrived.
His family knew how to do business on the island.
That's what he did.
On his drawing board
he slashed the wages.
Despite the promises,
none of that
was reversed during the government
of the 'Frente de Todos'. Nothing...
But in the decade
there was also resistance
from metalworkers, teachers and civil servants.
The closure of Digital Fueguina
was one of the last wounds
that marked the industrial zone.
Rodolfo Walsh said
that the ruling classes
have always promoted
that workers
have no history,
theories, heroes, or martyrs,
that we always start from scratch,
forgetting the lessons of the past.
And speaking of history,
the one who found his death was the pirate Magellan
in 1521, when he tried to plunder another island,
in distant seas.
He was struck down by the fierce resistance
of its inhabitants.
Well, I'm going to speak in English.
As we finish telling this story,
the crisis is already sweeping the country
and threatens to leave it in ruins.
IMF, debt, layoffs and hunger.
Again...
The question returns: What to do? 978 00:36:13,166 The United States and China are watching us... 979 00:36:15,566 They want to set up shop here.
We are bicontinental,
we have access to both oceans,
we have fresh water
on the Antarctic side.
We know that our resources
are viewed with another intention...
I'm going to speak very quickly
but we have:
Large tracts of land
with access to energy, water
in cold climates,
which is like the icing on the cake
for cooling AI systems
and in an area without armed conflict,
without tsunamis or earthquakes.
There are not many places on the planet
with these characteristics.
Of course... the problem with this area
is that it's populated by Argentinians.
This is the only issue
that we have to resolve.
The people of Tierra del Fuego,
once again,
refuse to leave this land.
Faced with the new conquerors,
they rekindle the flames,
embrace their traditions,
young but powerful.
We've already seen that neither the Menéndezes
nor the Caputos,
nor those who govern for them
can guarantee bread
and sovereignty.
Their only homeland
is their profits.
They want the land and the gas.
They want the water and the salmon.
They want the factories
and our sacrifice.
What we understand is
that they want to depopulate the island,
that they have a worrying vision
that involves
geopolitics.
We have three very important
sea straits here
such as the Beagle Channel
and the Strait of Magellan.
We have reserves of oil, gas,
fresh water.
We are the capital of the Falkland Islands
and here you really feel
that need to occupy a territory.
Part of our territory
continues to be usurped by that British superpower
no less than 600 kilometres from our city.
Attention, attention, attention...
We
have a fighting spirit
that others
elsewhere in the country
will not understand.
We know what to defend,
our land.
We know what it means
to defend our soil,
we know what it means to defend
our sovereignty.
Look at the Falklands monument
that we have here.
Everything points
to the Falkland Islands.
And do you know why?
Because here, sovereignty
is a feeling.
The United Kingdom
intends to extract some
500 million barrels of oil
from the Falkland Islands.
An Israeli company, Navitas Petroleum
will take charge
of the drilling
and exploration in Sea Lion
more than 200 kilometres
north of Port Stanley,
the capital of the Falkland Islands.
The problem with Argentina...
One of my roles as ambassador would be
to travel to all the provinces
and engage in dialogue
and have a true partnership with those governors
and support Milei and his government
in all their efforts.
They want to hand over energy
they want to hand over all the natural resources
that Tierra del Fuego has.
All those resources,
belong to the people of Tierra del Fuego.
No, it's not a problem
only for Tierra del Fuego,
it's something that
happens to us,
it could be happening
to any other province.
I mean, people just want to work,
they want to be able to live their lives
in peace,
they want to be able to progress,
they want to be able to continue
grow this city,
which is beautiful,
even though it looks grey.
It is beautiful
and it is full of dreams,
of young people
who want to continue
by keeping their families here.
I have an eight-year-old daughter
whom I wake up
every day with me
at 4:30 in the morning
I feel like they're also taking away our right
to continue living here
on the island.
And all of us, I mean,
we all have the same fear,
because it's
our livelihood.
Why did you come with your son?
Is he your son?
He is my son.
Because this has to do
with my family.
I wanted to be part of this
and he's accompanying me
and I think it's important
that he understands a little bit, too.
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of our labour rights.
Someday he will work,
I don't know what,
but I think it's important
that he understands this, too.
One of the things
we're fighting for,
besides our jobs,
is the fact that we can
continue living here.
But if suddenly they don't give you any leeway,
something where you can work on this island,
what are you going to do?
You're going to have to leave.
I saw it when I was little
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and you realise
that no one can save themselves alone,
we can't save ourselves alone...
The debate about Tierra del Fuego
is not a debate
about the end of the world,
it is a debate about
what kind of world we want.
Why not imagine,
instead of this irrational system
that produces to enrich a few
and hands over the natural resources
to the big corporations,
a national industry
run by the working class?
Why not put all that technology
and that collective labour
towards meeting social needs?
Would it not be more coherent
to manufacture computers so that kids
from all over the country can study,
and stoves so they don't get cold.
To produce ventilators and CT scanners
for all hospitals
with the seal
from Tierra del Fuego.
If resistance is born,
let's hope that it
may it be reflected throughout the country.
We have to stand up
on our feet.
We believe it is important,
today more than ever before,
to start building unity and solidarity.
How can we win?
By all taking to the streets.
From La Izquierda Diario
we will continue to be
in every rebellion
throughout the country
and the world.
But it is not enough to resist,
nor can we wait for salvation
from those who already ruled us.
So, it's either this
or sit back and do nothing
and wait
for them to do whatever they want
with us.
We are tired,
but we understand
that we have no other choice.
We will keep fighting.
Obviously, the fight
will continue.
If they have their plan,
we have to have ours.
Those of us who make the world go round
need trade unions
who defend us.
It's true,
but we also deserve
to have our own political force.
A party of workers
which, together with students and the people
can take up those traditions of struggle
and change history
so that this time
it will be us
who will be toasting at the end.
It's like a fire,
there are several sources, you see?
They have to unite.