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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:12,586 Crónica, Mexico City. July 15, 1988 2 00:01:12,610 --> 00:01:14,150 A REASON FOR CONTROVERSY IN MEXICO 3 00:01:16,530 --> 00:01:18,530 Several years ago, in Mexico, a significant number 4 00:01:18,620 --> 00:01:20,990 of foreign journalists and activists moved into our country. 5 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:23,580 Some local groups have shown hostility towards the activities 6 00:01:23,660 --> 00:01:25,960 that these new visitors are carrying out. 7 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:28,606 Fiona Gaertner, an English activist and wife of U.S. journalist Leam Gaertner, 8 00:01:28,630 --> 00:01:29,710 was among the victims. 9 00:01:29,790 --> 00:01:31,856 The Gaertners met in Puebla and later they moved to Mexico City, 10 00:01:31,880 --> 00:01:33,486 where their children Nico and Sebastián were born. 11 00:01:33,510 --> 00:01:35,510 As they were still young children, the... 12 00:01:52,980 --> 00:01:55,110 "Closed" 13 00:02:03,870 --> 00:02:06,300 How did you get in, Sebastian? 14 00:02:16,980 --> 00:02:20,050 My name is Nico. I'm a journalist. 15 00:02:20,090 --> 00:02:21,820 At least, I'm trying to be. 16 00:02:21,850 --> 00:02:23,790 But here I am again at 5:00 in the morning 17 00:02:23,820 --> 00:02:25,590 in my rented studio in Puebla, 18 00:02:25,630 --> 00:02:28,190 not sleeping and not writing a single paragraph. 19 00:02:28,230 --> 00:02:30,160 I think of everything, obsessively, 20 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:31,560 except the article I have to write. 21 00:02:32,900 --> 00:02:34,670 This is how my story began. 22 00:02:34,700 --> 00:02:37,870 Coming back. From England to Mexico. 23 00:02:37,900 --> 00:02:40,470 I was just 17 when I came here, alone, 24 00:02:40,510 --> 00:02:42,370 dying to finally see the gigantic city 25 00:02:42,410 --> 00:02:46,650 where my mother said I was born: Mexico City. 26 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:49,280 I've been a bundle of contradictions ever since. 27 00:02:49,310 --> 00:02:51,850 At 17, I was still a sad kid, 28 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:55,220 a little arrogant, maybe, but also awkward. 29 00:02:55,250 --> 00:02:58,490 Now I spend my days walking, looking at everything, 30 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:01,490 turning over rocks, trying to write a good story. 31 00:03:01,530 --> 00:03:05,300 For me, London reemerges everywhere I look in Mexico. 32 00:03:05,850 --> 00:03:07,560 As Martín Caparrós says, 33 00:03:07,640 --> 00:03:11,810 "We arrive, carrying what we think we are going to see from somewhere else." 34 00:03:11,900 --> 00:03:13,845 Like the old Chroniclers of the Indies, right? 35 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:17,080 I live here in Puebla, 36 00:03:17,110 --> 00:03:19,480 and I travel to Mexico City once a week to work, 37 00:03:19,510 --> 00:03:22,310 so I get the best of both worlds: beautiful Puebla, 38 00:03:22,350 --> 00:03:25,350 and Joint Visions , a cool new journal based in el D.F., 39 00:03:25,380 --> 00:03:27,320 where I managed to land a job. 40 00:03:29,540 --> 00:03:31,620 November 11, 2016. "Mexico City and the Global City" 41 00:03:31,710 --> 00:03:34,290 By Nico Gaertner 42 00:03:34,380 --> 00:03:39,510 The 21st century is characterized by a growing... 43 00:03:40,590 --> 00:03:44,760 a growing movement of trans... 44 00:04:11,700 --> 00:04:14,270 I'm from here. I was born here. 45 00:04:14,300 --> 00:04:16,470 Hm, how ironic. 46 00:04:16,500 --> 00:04:19,110 I could've stayed in London, but for what? 47 00:04:19,140 --> 00:04:20,740 They wouldn't even let me see my mother. 48 00:04:20,770 --> 00:04:23,280 What kind of person does that to a 16-year-old? 49 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:27,880 I'm a hybrid, thinking in English and Spanish, 50 00:04:27,910 --> 00:04:31,120 a product of development and underdevelopment, 51 00:04:31,150 --> 00:04:35,290 sometimes coherent, but usually incoherent. 52 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:37,720 And then... there's Monica. 53 00:04:40,330 --> 00:04:42,230 Monica is Chilean. 54 00:04:42,260 --> 00:04:44,230 I met her studying journalism in Puebla, 55 00:04:44,260 --> 00:04:45,676 and she is the best thing that's happened to me 56 00:04:45,700 --> 00:04:48,130 since I came here. 57 00:04:48,170 --> 00:04:51,940 But like all dreams, love is subject to brutal awakenings 58 00:04:51,970 --> 00:04:55,840 into silence, fear, a lack of something more. 59 00:06:23,090 --> 00:06:27,260 When we say that the megacities are 60 00:06:29,300 --> 00:06:32,470 When we say that all megacities 61 00:06:32,550 --> 00:06:35,640 are starting to resemble each other... 62 00:06:45,220 --> 00:06:46,931 Ah! Fuck! 63 00:06:46,974 --> 00:06:49,617 You're fucking kidding me! Is this a joke? I can't write anything! 64 00:07:04,700 --> 00:07:07,170 Not this guy in the hat who's always staring. 65 00:07:08,840 --> 00:07:11,740 I guess it's only fair. I deserve some payback 66 00:07:11,780 --> 00:07:13,850 for sticking my nose into other people's lives. 67 00:07:24,310 --> 00:07:25,480 Hello? 68 00:07:25,570 --> 00:07:28,440 I dropped by your house yesterday, but no one answered the door. 69 00:07:28,530 --> 00:07:30,030 You really came? 70 00:07:30,110 --> 00:07:32,320 Yes, I came by around 3 p.m. 71 00:07:34,070 --> 00:07:38,080 Can you call me later? I'm kind of busy. 72 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:40,500 - Okay. - Cool. 73 00:07:40,580 --> 00:07:42,790 - Okay, later. - Okay. 74 00:07:56,180 --> 00:07:57,680 Nico... look... 75 00:07:57,760 --> 00:08:01,690 I know you came, but... you've got me so annoyed! 76 00:08:01,770 --> 00:08:03,270 Nothing flows right with you. 77 00:08:03,350 --> 00:08:06,730 You might want to go on like this, but what about everyone else? 78 00:08:06,820 --> 00:08:10,110 I came from Chile to study here, to feel good, 79 00:08:10,190 --> 00:08:13,570 and then I wind up involved with you, the weirdest guy out there. 80 00:08:13,660 --> 00:08:17,280 You should go back to London, or the U.S., or, I don't know. 81 00:08:17,370 --> 00:08:19,120 Do as you please. 82 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:21,330 Nico, don't come back. 83 00:08:24,350 --> 00:08:27,550 And that's how Monica disappeared from my life. 84 00:08:27,590 --> 00:08:29,560 She got sick of me, simple as that. 85 00:08:31,290 --> 00:08:34,990 She'll go back to Chile after she's finished studying here. 86 00:08:35,030 --> 00:08:39,330 I'm sure she'll do well, unlike my mother. 87 00:08:39,370 --> 00:08:42,740 What happened to my mother could never happen to Monica. 88 00:08:42,770 --> 00:08:44,140 What could be worse than ending up 89 00:08:44,170 --> 00:08:46,240 in a mental institution in London, 90 00:08:46,270 --> 00:08:48,010 the cold city of London, 91 00:08:48,040 --> 00:08:51,780 with its cold streets and its equally cold psychiatrists. 92 00:08:54,780 --> 00:08:56,650 Monica. 93 00:08:56,680 --> 00:08:59,490 Monica always seems to find the story that needs telling, 94 00:08:59,520 --> 00:09:01,560 those particular angles I always miss. 95 00:09:01,590 --> 00:09:04,260 She says Chile is an island with only seven faces, 96 00:09:04,290 --> 00:09:05,860 and hers is one of them. 97 00:09:05,890 --> 00:09:07,166 I think she got that from reading 98 00:09:07,190 --> 00:09:08,903 about the films of Raul Ruiz. 99 00:09:08,946 --> 00:09:10,896 and the last Thursday of every month. We'll be waiting for you! 100 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:14,470 For more information visit viajespuebla.com. 101 00:09:14,550 --> 00:09:18,260 The people of Puebla shouldn't worry too much about safety in their state. 102 00:09:18,350 --> 00:09:22,980 With the "Safe Puebla" plan, we will install more security cameras and lights 103 00:09:23,060 --> 00:09:27,230 to cut danger and crime. 104 00:09:27,310 --> 00:09:30,070 all night long, three-dollar drinks all night long. 105 00:09:30,150 --> 00:09:32,847 Contest Thursdays in Rancho Oklahoma City. We'll be waiting for you! 106 00:09:33,940 --> 00:09:35,110 see you there... 107 00:09:35,690 --> 00:09:37,860 Grateful to God that he allowed me 108 00:09:37,890 --> 00:09:40,590 to be born in the United States of America. 109 00:09:40,630 --> 00:09:44,660 I love this country. I love this country! And... 110 00:10:03,350 --> 00:10:05,590 Beginning at 9:00 a.m., 111 00:10:05,620 --> 00:10:07,226 when the new President gives his inaugural speech... 112 00:10:07,250 --> 00:10:08,920 Members of congress talk about... 113 00:10:08,950 --> 00:10:10,090 Hello? 114 00:10:10,120 --> 00:10:11,590 Hi, where are you? 115 00:10:11,630 --> 00:10:13,590 Hey, I'm still in Oklahoma. 116 00:10:13,630 --> 00:10:15,130 You're still here? Why? 117 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:16,830 I told you I was gonna go follow 118 00:10:16,860 --> 00:10:19,130 in my parents' footsteps and took some back roads. 119 00:10:19,170 --> 00:10:21,670 I can't find anything to listen to out here. 120 00:10:21,700 --> 00:10:23,576 Babe, you can't follow in your parents' footsteps. 121 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:25,300 They travelled 20 years ago. 122 00:10:25,340 --> 00:10:27,970 - I know, but I can try. - Yeah. 123 00:10:28,010 --> 00:10:30,440 And then, another 10 hours to Mexico. 124 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:33,980 But hey, I'm driving. I'll send you a message later? 125 00:10:34,610 --> 00:10:36,520 Okay, I love you. 126 00:10:36,550 --> 00:10:37,850 Love you. 127 00:10:38,875 --> 00:10:41,435 Will be performing at the inauguration of the new president... 128 00:10:41,921 --> 00:10:43,760 This could mean that not all... 129 00:10:44,590 --> 00:10:46,930 It's Marxism re-written 130 00:10:46,960 --> 00:10:49,700 and cut to fit a Black context. 131 00:10:51,190 --> 00:10:53,177 Hey, I know you're busy, but... 132 00:10:53,231 --> 00:10:55,000 With the baptism of the holy spirit, 133 00:10:55,030 --> 00:10:56,700 evidence shows they were speaking in... 134 00:10:58,700 --> 00:11:00,610 Criticized by the president elect, 135 00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:02,810 who called climate change a hoax. 136 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:05,210 I do not believe that climate change is a hoax. 137 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:08,110 Okay, that's important for the president to hear. 138 00:11:08,150 --> 00:11:10,070 Taking it further, Johnson told Ferris that if... 139 00:11:10,680 --> 00:11:12,120 My country is falling apart, 140 00:11:12,150 --> 00:11:14,650 and here I am heading south to Mexico. 141 00:11:14,690 --> 00:11:16,990 What if they build that damn wall while I am there? 142 00:11:17,020 --> 00:11:19,330 It could be for the best, really. 143 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:21,960 Maybe staying in that country that I don't even know 144 00:11:21,990 --> 00:11:23,300 is just what I need. 145 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:14,080 Dad, I am on my way to Mexico, 146 00:12:14,110 --> 00:12:17,180 wondering what made you and mom settle there. 147 00:12:17,220 --> 00:12:19,520 It's ridiculous that I'm Mexican! 148 00:12:19,550 --> 00:12:21,220 It's ridiculous that you insist 149 00:12:21,250 --> 00:12:25,060 that my name has a written accent over the á . 150 00:12:25,090 --> 00:12:28,030 If you only would've had the decency of telling me more 151 00:12:28,060 --> 00:12:29,760 and not just focus on that, 152 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:32,430 with your bizarre jokes, honestly. 153 00:12:54,150 --> 00:12:56,290 What if I was to say to my brother: 154 00:12:56,320 --> 00:12:59,860 "Nico, I started a letter for you, but... 155 00:12:59,890 --> 00:13:02,230 "I... I don't know what to say. I'm so torn. 156 00:13:02,260 --> 00:13:04,260 How will I approach you when I get to Mexico City?" 157 00:13:04,300 --> 00:13:06,770 I don't know. I feel that that's a little too dramatic. 158 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:08,670 Why don't you just say, 159 00:13:08,700 --> 00:13:11,840 "Hey, this is your brother Sebastian from Oklahoma?" 160 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:14,470 Okay, that won't work. 161 00:13:14,510 --> 00:13:16,310 Uh, you could just say, "What's up jerk?" 162 00:13:16,340 --> 00:13:18,580 Sure, I could say that. 163 00:13:18,610 --> 00:13:20,610 Or I don't know, just show up at his work. 164 00:13:20,650 --> 00:13:22,410 What is it? Joint Visions? 165 00:13:22,450 --> 00:13:23,950 Yeah, that's where he works. 166 00:13:23,980 --> 00:13:25,696 That was the only thing I was able to find online. 167 00:13:25,720 --> 00:13:27,790 I mean, for sure. 168 00:13:27,820 --> 00:13:31,020 Wow, and now you're on your way to Mexico City. 169 00:13:31,060 --> 00:13:32,590 Does your dad know? 170 00:13:32,630 --> 00:13:34,260 No, I went to his house this morning, 171 00:13:34,290 --> 00:13:38,160 and of course, he was there gloomy and mean, as usual. 172 00:13:38,930 --> 00:13:40,400 Uh, can you please just look up 173 00:13:40,430 --> 00:13:42,100 the address for Joint Visions again? 174 00:13:42,130 --> 00:13:45,100 Yeah, sure, um, I actually have it right here. 175 00:13:45,140 --> 00:13:49,710 It's on Avenida Juarez and Revilla...? 176 00:13:49,740 --> 00:13:53,450 How do you say that? Um, Revillagigedo? 177 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:00,710 This city drags us along. 178 00:14:00,790 --> 00:14:04,340 It grows like an animal deformed by some unknown drug. 179 00:14:04,420 --> 00:14:05,970 With no mold, no plan. 180 00:14:06,050 --> 00:14:09,550 Like a chain of lights, cars, and buildings. 181 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:13,640 It is monstrous and beautiful all at once. But what isn't beautiful in... 182 00:14:13,720 --> 00:14:15,770 What's this guy's problem? 183 00:14:15,850 --> 00:14:17,270 Lost something? 184 00:14:17,313 --> 00:14:18,346 I've got to get back to Puebla. 185 00:14:18,370 --> 00:14:21,640 I get so paranoid here in el D.F. 186 00:14:21,670 --> 00:14:24,980 or Mexico City, or CDMX, 187 00:14:25,010 --> 00:14:26,980 or whatever they want to call it next. 188 00:14:42,530 --> 00:14:44,700 In the Rear Window, Jefferies also spied 189 00:14:44,730 --> 00:14:47,770 on his front neighbors, or did he? 190 00:14:47,800 --> 00:14:50,740 In Hitchcock's film, Jefferies was a photographer 191 00:14:50,770 --> 00:14:53,540 whose life was paused because of a broken leg. 192 00:14:53,570 --> 00:14:55,880 I'm more like some disturbed voyeur, 193 00:14:55,910 --> 00:14:57,440 digging into people's lives 194 00:14:57,480 --> 00:14:59,850 thanks to lack of sleep and a mental block. 195 00:14:59,880 --> 00:15:02,620 Or in order to turn my back on my own, 196 00:15:02,650 --> 00:15:03,683 let's say... 197 00:15:03,726 --> 00:15:05,820 "Private Miseries." 198 00:15:06,550 --> 00:15:08,790 That's what my favorite writer, Leila Guerriero, 199 00:15:08,820 --> 00:15:11,360 would call the things inside these four walls: 200 00:15:11,390 --> 00:15:15,230 a chair, a table, a kitchen 201 00:15:15,260 --> 00:15:18,130 a bed, and random piles of books and clothes. 202 00:15:18,160 --> 00:15:20,200 Oh, and the cat of course, 203 00:15:20,230 --> 00:15:22,230 but she is far from a private misery. 204 00:15:23,770 --> 00:15:25,270 What if I sorted out all my clothes 205 00:15:25,300 --> 00:15:27,870 in my kitchen drawers like Slavoj Zizek? 206 00:15:27,910 --> 00:15:30,940 He says it adds something special to his life. 207 00:15:32,950 --> 00:15:34,980 The Hitchcockian characters across the street 208 00:15:35,010 --> 00:15:37,220 seem to live normal lives. 209 00:15:37,250 --> 00:15:39,620 I hope no one sees me and decides to say hello. 210 00:15:39,650 --> 00:15:41,990 I can't hold a normal conversation. 211 00:15:46,490 --> 00:15:48,260 Here I am again at 5:00 in the morning, 212 00:15:48,290 --> 00:15:50,900 not sleeping and not writing a single paragraph. 213 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:22,860 What if I wrote about that building and the people in it? 214 00:16:22,900 --> 00:16:25,630 I could start with that kid, staring into space, 215 00:16:25,670 --> 00:16:28,200 looking for something in the stratosphere. 216 00:16:28,230 --> 00:16:30,700 That could be the start of a beautiful story. 217 00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:47,620 We walk, we move, but we never leave home. 218 00:16:47,650 --> 00:16:49,166 This watch is the same one I asked my mum 219 00:16:49,190 --> 00:16:51,790 to buy for me in London, a long time ago. 220 00:17:13,680 --> 00:17:15,880 Leila Guerreiro quotes Rafael Gumucio 221 00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:17,980 from Against Flaubert. 222 00:17:18,020 --> 00:17:19,690 For Flaubert, he says, 223 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:22,860 Madame Bovary is a vengeance against her father, 224 00:17:22,890 --> 00:17:26,530 against her uncles, against the entire city of Ruan, 225 00:17:26,560 --> 00:17:30,360 against books, against nuns, against Republicans... 226 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:32,870 almost against everything. 227 00:17:32,900 --> 00:17:36,070 The argument is unsettling to me, but also intriguing, 228 00:17:36,100 --> 00:17:38,000 like so many others from Gumucio, 229 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:41,010 or Leila, or Caparrós, or Villoro, 230 00:17:41,040 --> 00:17:43,310 or Cadena Martínez, who I read obsessively. 231 00:17:43,770 --> 00:17:45,600 Hey Nico! How are things? 232 00:17:46,310 --> 00:17:48,980 Pretty good. Well... trying to write. 233 00:17:50,070 --> 00:17:52,860 And you're studying there in Puebla, right? 234 00:17:52,940 --> 00:17:55,530 I already got a job. In Mexico City. 235 00:17:55,610 --> 00:17:56,860 Okay, I read what you sent me. 236 00:17:56,950 --> 00:17:58,780 It's pretty good, but I can tell you are... 237 00:17:58,870 --> 00:18:00,530 tense, stiff. 238 00:18:03,700 --> 00:18:06,420 What's up with that? 239 00:18:06,500 --> 00:18:08,420 You have to tell that story with a little more... 240 00:18:08,460 --> 00:18:09,920 tenderness. 241 00:18:11,170 --> 00:18:13,510 Tenderness?! 242 00:18:13,590 --> 00:18:14,646 What do you do all day long? 243 00:18:14,670 --> 00:18:15,670 I walk. 244 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:17,130 But, what else? 245 00:18:17,220 --> 00:18:19,600 Not much more. 246 00:18:22,100 --> 00:18:24,470 I suggest... 247 00:18:24,560 --> 00:18:26,390 you take a chill pill! 248 00:18:27,390 --> 00:18:30,520 You want to write? Let your hair down, Nico! 249 00:18:30,563 --> 00:18:32,060 Ugh. 250 00:18:33,570 --> 00:18:35,530 Stop pulling your hair out when writing! 251 00:18:59,020 --> 00:19:00,850 Today was a good day. 252 00:19:03,320 --> 00:19:04,760 I wasn't able to start the story 253 00:19:04,790 --> 00:19:06,290 of the kid staring into space, 254 00:19:06,320 --> 00:19:09,160 but something supernatural did happen. 255 00:19:09,190 --> 00:19:11,960 I finally spoke to Alberto Cadena Martínez, 256 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:13,300 all the way from Colombia. 257 00:19:13,320 --> 00:19:14,820 Brilliant! 258 00:19:14,900 --> 00:19:17,150 That really is supernatural. 259 00:19:21,240 --> 00:19:22,610 He called me out though. 260 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:25,980 Hm, "me retó," as Monica would say. 261 00:19:26,010 --> 00:19:28,610 Good thing too, since I have such writer's block. 262 00:19:32,090 --> 00:19:34,190 Alberto says the key to writing a good story 263 00:19:34,220 --> 00:19:36,190 is a particular point of view, 264 00:19:36,220 --> 00:19:38,590 which doesn't just magically emerge out of research, 265 00:19:38,620 --> 00:19:40,560 out of what I've been doing. 266 00:19:40,590 --> 00:19:42,230 I do fuck all. 267 00:19:42,260 --> 00:19:44,630 I walk around not even knowing what to look for. 268 00:19:44,660 --> 00:19:48,470 But they say that can be an advantage for good writers too. 269 00:19:48,500 --> 00:19:50,300 The truth is, my effort at this story 270 00:19:50,340 --> 00:19:52,340 has become like a tornado sweeping me along. 271 00:19:53,410 --> 00:19:54,940 Like in Oklahoma. 272 00:20:06,740 --> 00:20:07,907 321? 273 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:11,830 What is 321? 274 00:20:12,260 --> 00:20:13,890 You're right, Alberto. 275 00:20:13,930 --> 00:20:15,336 I've got to put an end to this neurosis 276 00:20:15,360 --> 00:20:17,700 and think... think calmly. 277 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:27,000 - Good day. - Yeah. 278 00:21:27,030 --> 00:21:28,330 The usual? 279 00:21:28,370 --> 00:21:29,570 Yeah. 280 00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:42,380 Salud. 281 00:21:44,320 --> 00:21:46,380 Oh, are you from Mexico? 282 00:21:47,490 --> 00:21:49,090 Do I look Mexican? 283 00:21:51,120 --> 00:21:53,030 He says that all the time. 284 00:21:53,060 --> 00:21:54,230 Why? 285 00:21:55,390 --> 00:21:58,100 He used to live in Mexico for the longest time. 286 00:21:58,830 --> 00:22:00,670 That's why he comes in here. 287 00:22:01,300 --> 00:22:02,840 The music. 288 00:22:15,550 --> 00:22:16,980 Hey, Leam. 289 00:22:17,020 --> 00:22:18,580 How goes it? 290 00:22:22,490 --> 00:22:25,520 I liked it better when Luis played the old Mexican tunes. 291 00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:27,660 Get him to play the old Mexican songs. 292 00:22:27,690 --> 00:22:31,860 I'm with you on that. I'll take your recommendation. 293 00:22:49,580 --> 00:22:52,550 What inhabits this burning red earth? 294 00:22:52,590 --> 00:22:55,520 Is it abundance, or the vastness of a desert 295 00:22:55,550 --> 00:22:59,030 plagued by churches, oil, and highways 296 00:22:59,060 --> 00:23:01,890 that leads to an obscure border 297 00:23:01,930 --> 00:23:03,830 like a blind, mad animal 298 00:23:03,860 --> 00:23:06,700 that crashes into a wall it cannot see? 299 00:23:06,730 --> 00:23:09,500 The wind blows, and we are far away, 300 00:23:09,530 --> 00:23:11,870 and every border reminds us 301 00:23:11,900 --> 00:23:15,270 that we cross it only when we're searching for something; 302 00:23:15,310 --> 00:23:19,410 otherwise, every cage looks brilliantly tidy and clean, 303 00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:22,080 like this one, where I find myself. 304 00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:30,150 Are you hanging out or drinking or eating or...? 305 00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:33,320 I'll be back in a minute for you. 306 00:24:56,380 --> 00:24:58,140 Nico. 307 00:24:58,180 --> 00:25:00,850 I've been unable to write you a normal letter. 308 00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:02,180 So... 309 00:25:02,210 --> 00:25:04,050 Here's what I really wanna say. 310 00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:07,020 When I found out that you, Rose, and mom were gone, 311 00:25:07,050 --> 00:25:09,220 all I could do was imagine where you were. 312 00:25:09,260 --> 00:25:11,660 I spent hours looking in those geography magazines 313 00:25:11,690 --> 00:25:14,460 that mom brought home from England. 314 00:25:14,490 --> 00:25:16,000 I was looking for you guys in them. 315 00:25:18,530 --> 00:25:20,670 Remember that feeling we had 316 00:25:20,700 --> 00:25:24,370 that nothing would happen to us as long as dad was around? 317 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:27,170 Well, now he was the only one around, 318 00:25:27,210 --> 00:25:30,780 but I was six, and he had shut off completely. 319 00:25:30,810 --> 00:25:35,750 I don't know anything about you or if mom is in Mexico. 320 00:25:35,780 --> 00:25:38,050 But at least I know where you are. 321 00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:40,120 I'll find you guys. 322 00:25:40,150 --> 00:25:42,820 I can't wait to get down there, especially now. 323 00:25:42,860 --> 00:25:44,720 Have you seen what's happening in the US? 324 00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:47,430 Maybe you can get me a job down there. 325 00:25:54,630 --> 00:25:57,740 I also know that Latin American cities are gigantic, 326 00:25:57,770 --> 00:26:01,240 one of them being Mexico City, where I'm headed to find you. 327 00:26:11,120 --> 00:26:17,260 Instead, Ava, our Oklahoma town is very, let's say, lonely. 328 00:26:17,290 --> 00:26:20,230 In Ava, you don't see many people walking, 329 00:26:20,260 --> 00:26:23,100 except those loners that traverse endless pathways 330 00:26:23,130 --> 00:26:26,930 seemingly going from one fast food joint to a dollar store. 331 00:26:26,970 --> 00:26:30,470 And while shiny cars drive through town anonymously, 332 00:26:30,500 --> 00:26:33,140 other lonely people hit one bar after the other. 333 00:26:34,410 --> 00:26:37,880 I might sound dramatic, but this is what I see. 334 00:26:37,910 --> 00:26:39,710 One of those people that hits those bars 335 00:26:39,750 --> 00:26:42,350 during the day is our father, Leam. 336 00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:32,160 Drug lord is now in U.S. custody 337 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:33,169 facing several charges... 338 00:27:33,212 --> 00:27:35,597 Today began the trial in the case of the motorcyclist 339 00:27:36,522 --> 00:27:38,530 who drove into a police station in Laredo. 340 00:27:38,610 --> 00:27:40,200 The trial will take place... 341 00:28:19,410 --> 00:28:20,780 Your call has been forwarded... 342 00:29:03,260 --> 00:29:05,290 The storm initiated the conformation 343 00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:07,290 of a tornado that most likely will pass 344 00:29:07,330 --> 00:29:09,760 near the city of Moore in the State of Oklahoma. 345 00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:11,560 Residents are already taking the necessary... 346 00:30:42,550 --> 00:30:47,010 Federal Highway 85 Mexico 347 00:30:56,670 --> 00:30:59,570 On the other side, everything sparkles, 348 00:30:59,610 --> 00:31:02,580 bathed in a light that blinds our eyes. 349 00:31:02,610 --> 00:31:06,380 The lines curve, the roads become irregular, 350 00:31:06,410 --> 00:31:09,420 nature is wild and alive. 351 00:31:09,450 --> 00:31:11,950 Like a party with no written end. 352 00:31:12,950 --> 00:31:15,920 Like an impossible and mysterious world. 353 00:31:38,910 --> 00:31:40,450 Why did I decide to write 354 00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:42,720 about the world now, of all times, 355 00:31:42,750 --> 00:31:45,180 right at the start of the Post-Truth age... 356 00:31:45,220 --> 00:31:48,120 hm... like Villoro said in his talk on Tuesday. 357 00:31:48,150 --> 00:31:49,420 Puebla belongs to another time. 358 00:31:50,790 --> 00:31:52,360 It's like a Parisian city-scape, 359 00:31:52,390 --> 00:31:53,890 frozen in time, 360 00:31:53,930 --> 00:31:55,760 the cover of Benjamin's Arcade Project, 361 00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:57,060 but in Mexico. 362 00:31:58,000 --> 00:31:59,476 Re-thinking Benjamin in the context of Latin America 363 00:31:59,500 --> 00:32:00,261 The Theorist of the Modern City. Berlin, Paris, Naples. 364 00:32:00,304 --> 00:32:02,530 There's no one like Walter Benjamin. 365 00:32:02,570 --> 00:32:06,570 He's unique, original, inexhaustible. 366 00:32:06,610 --> 00:32:08,310 And reading him does me good. 367 00:32:08,340 --> 00:32:10,710 I didn't know that the Parisian arcades he describes 368 00:32:10,740 --> 00:32:13,380 are so much like the ones here in Puebla. 369 00:32:13,410 --> 00:32:16,880 But these are tangled, baroque. 370 00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:18,950 Mexico is not the capital of the world 371 00:32:18,980 --> 00:32:20,720 like Paris was in the nineteenth century. 372 00:32:22,090 --> 00:32:23,720 But why would anyone want to live 373 00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:25,560 in the center of the world, anyway? 374 00:32:35,660 --> 00:32:41,210 But why would anyone want to be in the center of the world anyway? 375 00:32:47,210 --> 00:32:48,210 Here. 376 00:32:49,110 --> 00:32:51,580 I'd love to be like Benjamin, hm. 377 00:32:51,620 --> 00:32:54,990 To see the world through these urban surfaces. 378 00:32:55,020 --> 00:32:57,190 Here in Puebla, everything is exposed 379 00:32:57,220 --> 00:33:00,330 and concealed at the same time. 380 00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:04,730 And here, in Mexico City, even more. 381 00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:08,000 In this giant city, there's no time for fiction. 382 00:33:08,070 --> 00:33:11,540 Anyone who's not wide-awake gets lost, forever. 383 00:33:18,450 --> 00:33:20,790 To each their own. 384 00:33:20,870 --> 00:33:23,000 Did this guy lose something too? 385 00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:25,710 This is what's called "The Paranoia of Loneliness." 386 00:33:25,790 --> 00:33:27,790 Chiguagua, Gómez-Palacio, Cananéa. 387 00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:29,963 Welcome, sir. We can give you information. 388 00:33:41,300 --> 00:33:43,700 My children, myself, 389 00:33:43,740 --> 00:33:47,210 are little more than seeds adrift. 390 00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:50,510 My children, swept away by the daily winds, 391 00:33:50,540 --> 00:33:55,510 ask themselves questions whose meaning they've yet to know. 392 00:33:55,550 --> 00:33:59,380 One day, they'll stop, and all the travelers you now see, 393 00:33:59,420 --> 00:34:01,820 passing other travelers on foreign soil, 394 00:34:01,850 --> 00:34:05,060 at bus stations, in the streets, 395 00:34:05,090 --> 00:34:08,360 will be the very proof that what hurls us into the world 396 00:34:08,390 --> 00:34:11,430 is what also forces us to endure, to return 397 00:34:11,460 --> 00:34:13,500 to the origin of all things 398 00:34:13,530 --> 00:34:16,340 when my seeds were newly bursting with light, 399 00:34:16,370 --> 00:34:19,240 like a blameless and brilliant gift. 400 00:34:21,810 --> 00:34:26,770 58 to Mérida and Yucatán, now completing boarding through door 18. 401 00:34:26,850 --> 00:34:30,190 Hello... I'm a little lost, 402 00:34:30,270 --> 00:34:34,570 but I'm going to Mexico City. 403 00:34:39,700 --> 00:34:41,370 3700. 404 00:34:41,450 --> 00:34:47,920 Please head immediately to door number 17. 405 00:36:46,090 --> 00:36:49,390 You bribed him to play my Mexican music, huh? 406 00:36:50,460 --> 00:36:52,760 Leam. 407 00:36:52,790 --> 00:36:54,660 So, are you a Brit? 408 00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:57,500 Last time, you asked me if I was from Mexico. 409 00:36:57,530 --> 00:36:58,770 Yeah. 410 00:36:59,870 --> 00:37:01,600 No, I'm from Oklahoma. 411 00:37:01,630 --> 00:37:04,800 What I told you was last summer I went to England, for school. 412 00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:08,780 Were you in London? 413 00:37:08,810 --> 00:37:10,880 Uh, yeah, for about a month. 414 00:37:10,910 --> 00:37:13,610 I was, like, drinking a little too much. 415 00:37:13,650 --> 00:37:15,620 Um, why? Why do you ask? 416 00:37:16,720 --> 00:37:18,420 Don't ask. 417 00:37:18,450 --> 00:37:21,420 It's just a question. Why, Leam? 418 00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:26,130 What? 419 00:37:35,530 --> 00:37:37,470 In the late sixties... 420 00:37:38,270 --> 00:37:41,370 your dad became totally involved in the movement of the day. 421 00:37:43,310 --> 00:37:48,350 And after the Tlatelolco Massacre in Mexico... 422 00:37:50,420 --> 00:37:53,490 he kept going back, returning to cover 423 00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:56,390 the student protests against the government. 424 00:37:59,660 --> 00:38:01,460 Since he was persecuted here... 425 00:38:03,100 --> 00:38:05,970 He decided to stay there, in Mexico. 426 00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:12,000 - He was about your age. - I don't know... 427 00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:15,140 I know you don't know much about all this. 428 00:38:15,170 --> 00:38:17,680 Everything your dad, Leam, 429 00:38:17,710 --> 00:38:21,950 struggled for in the sixties and seventies. 430 00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:27,150 Everything he wrote as a journalist was brilliant. 431 00:38:31,790 --> 00:38:34,390 And look at the world today, Sebastian. 432 00:38:35,030 --> 00:38:40,830 It's been real hard for me to witness your dad's downfall, 433 00:38:42,670 --> 00:38:44,270 when so much is happening... 434 00:38:46,210 --> 00:38:48,040 That needs to be analyzed, 435 00:38:48,070 --> 00:38:51,110 contested, 436 00:38:51,140 --> 00:38:52,950 with intelligence. 437 00:38:55,580 --> 00:38:56,880 Look! 438 00:39:05,560 --> 00:39:08,030 What's this catnip stuff? 439 00:39:08,060 --> 00:39:10,400 Ah, the catnip stuff. 440 00:39:10,430 --> 00:39:13,200 It may sound funny. 441 00:39:13,230 --> 00:39:15,530 Even catnip was an issue. 442 00:39:18,570 --> 00:39:23,540 But you know, after he met your mom, 443 00:39:23,580 --> 00:39:26,080 your mother, 444 00:39:26,110 --> 00:39:28,310 their activism became stronger. 445 00:39:28,350 --> 00:39:30,480 She was even tougher. 446 00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:33,490 Fiona... incredible woman. 447 00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:36,220 A short time after you were born in Mexico, 448 00:39:36,260 --> 00:39:38,260 you and your brother, Nico, 449 00:39:39,260 --> 00:39:40,990 she was kidnapped. 450 00:39:41,030 --> 00:39:43,400 How... how come my dad never told me about this? 451 00:39:43,430 --> 00:39:45,400 Why are you telling me this? 452 00:39:49,770 --> 00:39:53,010 'Cause there has been too much silence. 453 00:39:54,140 --> 00:39:56,940 We've been quiet for too long. 454 00:40:03,220 --> 00:40:05,080 When y'all came back from Mexico in... 455 00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:08,190 '98. That's when Mom was pregnant with Rose. 456 00:40:08,220 --> 00:40:10,590 In nine... yeah, that'd be right. 457 00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:14,790 The nineties were difficult. Very difficult in Mexico. 458 00:40:14,830 --> 00:40:16,630 They had no money, 459 00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:23,540 but at least they had a house here... here in Oklahoma. 460 00:40:25,970 --> 00:40:28,610 And when they came back, 461 00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:30,980 everything seemed so great. 462 00:40:34,180 --> 00:40:37,280 You know, your brother, Nico... 463 00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:39,890 he loved that house, 464 00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:42,050 more so than you. 465 00:40:42,090 --> 00:40:43,890 Your dad... 466 00:40:46,460 --> 00:40:50,060 Seems him and little Nico were like... like this, you know? 467 00:40:51,630 --> 00:40:53,830 They were always playing at writing stories 468 00:40:53,870 --> 00:40:56,000 for the newspapers up in the attic. 469 00:40:57,470 --> 00:40:59,010 Remember? 470 00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:00,370 No. 471 00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:04,840 But your parents would not stop, 472 00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:07,310 and vicious people are everywhere. 473 00:41:08,710 --> 00:41:11,020 Leam, Fiona... 474 00:41:11,950 --> 00:41:14,990 did not have a chance in Mexico, or even here. 475 00:41:15,020 --> 00:41:16,520 Why didn't she take me? 476 00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:19,130 Why did she only take Rose and Nico? 477 00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:22,560 She did take Nico, Sebastian... 478 00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:27,100 but she didn't take Rose. 479 00:41:30,470 --> 00:41:33,370 They came back from Mexico 480 00:41:33,410 --> 00:41:35,780 because of that house. 481 00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:39,380 That house! 482 00:41:40,750 --> 00:41:41,750 What!? 483 00:41:51,190 --> 00:41:54,530 It happened on 321 Walnut Rd., in Ava. 484 00:41:54,560 --> 00:41:57,800 The victim has been identified as 2-year old Rose Gaertner. 485 00:41:57,830 --> 00:42:00,170 Around 6 a.m., police responded to a call 486 00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:02,700 of people screaming outside the Gaertner's home. 487 00:42:02,740 --> 00:42:04,140 When officers got to the scene, 488 00:42:04,170 --> 00:42:06,470 they found Rose lying on the sidewalk. 489 00:42:06,510 --> 00:42:08,410 She died at the scene. 490 00:42:08,440 --> 00:42:10,240 Identified as 2-year old Rose Gaertner... 491 00:42:10,280 --> 00:42:12,310 Screaming outside... she died at the scene. 492 00:42:12,340 --> 00:42:13,750 The girl's parents have stated 493 00:42:13,780 --> 00:42:15,210 they were the target of the assault. 494 00:42:15,250 --> 00:42:16,650 They fear the lack of evidence... 495 00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:18,080 the lack of evidence in the crime... 496 00:44:09,940 --> 00:44:14,190 Porche model mattresses are on sale from $220. 497 00:44:14,270 --> 00:44:16,610 Buy on credit for 15 monthly payments without interest, 498 00:44:16,690 --> 00:44:18,610 and we'll throw in a gift box. 499 00:44:18,700 --> 00:44:21,370 From the 4th through the 17th of this month, take advantage 500 00:44:21,450 --> 00:44:25,370 of the credit we're offering at our locations throughout the city. 501 00:44:25,450 --> 00:44:28,120 Find out about this opportunity at InspírateMéxico.com. 502 00:44:28,210 --> 00:44:30,250 Participate from now until the end of the month. 503 00:44:30,330 --> 00:44:31,380 No commitments attached! 504 00:44:31,460 --> 00:44:34,460 Ma'am, we're calling you because your son has a bullying problem. 505 00:44:34,550 --> 00:44:37,380 Really? 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I like how it describes everyday details. 530 00:49:49,650 --> 00:49:54,030 The main character of this novel meets Simón Bolívar. 531 00:49:54,110 --> 00:49:58,490 When he enters a room to meet the Liberator of America, 532 00:49:58,580 --> 00:50:01,040 there is a chair against the wall, 533 00:50:01,120 --> 00:50:04,960 and he describes how the humidity eats away at the wall. 534 00:50:05,040 --> 00:50:07,500 As a kid, I would see those drops of humidity 535 00:50:07,590 --> 00:50:11,760 that looked like they were made of cotton and I would play at breaking them apart. 536 00:50:11,840 --> 00:50:14,640 I like that. Álvaro Mutis is a great writer. 537 00:50:14,720 --> 00:50:19,560 I've read a book called Stories for After Making Love. 538 00:50:20,350 --> 00:50:22,187 More than anything, I bought the book... 539 00:50:22,230 --> 00:50:23,770 Good afternoon! How do we get downtown? 540 00:50:23,850 --> 00:50:25,900 We are downtown. Where do you need to go? 541 00:50:25,980 --> 00:50:28,744 - Right to downtown. - This is downtown. 542 00:50:29,178 --> 00:50:30,860 After this intersection and the next, 543 00:50:30,940 --> 00:50:33,380 you'll find the Center Square and the cathedral on your right. 544 00:50:33,450 --> 00:50:36,370 - Oh, okay. Thanks. - Sure. 545 00:50:49,550 --> 00:50:55,550 "An imagined woman on the platform of any metro station in this city. 546 00:50:56,340 --> 00:50:58,430 A woman who did not arrive, 547 00:50:58,510 --> 00:51:01,680 who didn't come but nonetheless walks among the people 548 00:51:01,770 --> 00:51:05,140 searching for the same exits as us. 549 00:51:05,230 --> 00:51:09,230 An imagined woman, lost in the forest of Chapultepec 550 00:51:09,310 --> 00:51:11,900 or in the thickness of some dream. 551 00:51:11,980 --> 00:51:16,610 An imagined woman, simply, running away like all of them 552 00:51:16,700 --> 00:51:19,830 from some photo no one has taken yet. 553 00:51:19,910 --> 00:51:22,370 They walk with us, but don't know it, 554 00:51:22,450 --> 00:51:25,120 they don't even imagine it. 555 00:51:25,210 --> 00:51:31,340 We walk beside them on their behalf, on the same uneven pavements 556 00:51:31,420 --> 00:51:35,420 or step on imagined leaves, perhaps already stepped on by them, 557 00:51:35,510 --> 00:51:39,340 "who hardly insinuate the existence of the fall." 558 00:51:45,180 --> 00:51:47,730 Sir... here. 559 00:51:47,810 --> 00:51:49,400 - Here? - I'm going to that building. 560 00:51:49,480 --> 00:51:52,190 If you are going up the street, I'll take you. Not a problem. 561 00:51:52,270 --> 00:51:56,200 - Sir... No, no, no. Here. - Okay. 562 00:52:38,140 --> 00:52:39,270 Hello? 563 00:52:39,300 --> 00:52:40,510 Hey. 564 00:52:40,540 --> 00:52:42,510 I got kicked out of Joint Visions. 565 00:52:42,540 --> 00:52:43,680 Okay. 566 00:52:43,710 --> 00:52:45,180 Yeah. 567 00:52:45,210 --> 00:52:46,886 But I know what I'm gonna do. I know the city. 568 00:52:46,910 --> 00:52:48,526 I've been walking around. I've been watching him. 569 00:52:48,550 --> 00:52:50,320 He hangs out with this group that looks like 570 00:52:50,350 --> 00:52:54,790 a modern fucking version of the Jack Kerouac-Neil Cassidy gang. 571 00:52:54,820 --> 00:52:57,660 They do some kind of activism or something. 572 00:52:57,690 --> 00:52:58,930 I think he saw me. 573 00:53:00,730 --> 00:53:02,860 - Hello? - It's fine, Sebastian. 574 00:53:02,900 --> 00:53:04,700 Just do whatever you have to do. 575 00:53:04,730 --> 00:53:06,400 I'll talk to you soon, okay? 576 00:53:10,570 --> 00:53:12,000 Hey, guys. This is Paige. 577 00:53:12,040 --> 00:53:13,186 Leave a message, and I'll get back 578 00:53:13,210 --> 00:53:14,570 with you as soon as I can. 579 00:53:16,410 --> 00:53:18,410 Hey guys, this is Paige. 580 00:53:18,440 --> 00:53:20,226 Leave a message and I'll get back with you as soon as I... 581 00:53:20,250 --> 00:53:23,080 It's fine, Sebastian, just do whatever you have to do. 582 00:53:23,120 --> 00:53:24,420 I'll talk to you soon, okay? 583 00:53:24,450 --> 00:53:26,420 Hey, guys. This is Paige. 584 00:53:26,450 --> 00:53:28,266 Leave a message and I'll get back with you as soon as I... 585 00:53:28,290 --> 00:53:30,410 It's fine, Sebastian; just do whatever you have to do. 586 00:55:04,880 --> 00:55:06,090 This is awkward. 587 00:55:08,220 --> 00:55:09,390 Read this. 588 00:55:11,820 --> 00:55:14,660 Instead, Ava, our Oklahoma town, 589 00:55:14,690 --> 00:55:18,560 is very, let's say, lonely. 590 00:55:18,600 --> 00:55:21,200 In Ava, you don't see many people walking, 591 00:55:21,230 --> 00:55:24,200 except those loners that traverse endless pathways 592 00:55:24,240 --> 00:55:26,110 seemingly going from one fast food... 593 00:55:26,140 --> 00:55:27,716 one of those people that hits those bars 594 00:55:27,740 --> 00:55:30,140 during the day is our father, Leam. 595 00:55:30,180 --> 00:55:33,850 I really can't do this right now, okay? 596 00:55:34,480 --> 00:55:36,150 Maybe later. 597 00:55:36,180 --> 00:55:37,350 Okay. 598 00:55:40,490 --> 00:55:42,790 I think, though, that, after all, 599 00:55:42,820 --> 00:55:44,460 my friends might be right when they say 600 00:55:44,490 --> 00:55:46,660 that the US is a better place than Mexico 601 00:55:46,690 --> 00:55:49,360 with all that violence, and narcos, and... 602 00:55:49,390 --> 00:55:51,700 but again, what consolation is that? 603 00:55:51,730 --> 00:55:54,230 Ava is a sad little town that cannot grow 604 00:55:54,270 --> 00:55:56,500 because of the backwardness of its people. 605 00:55:56,530 --> 00:55:58,340 My own backwardness has kept me here. 606 00:56:01,440 --> 00:56:03,740 And Dad's contempt towards me 607 00:56:03,780 --> 00:56:06,480 is no more than his unbearable pain. 608 00:56:06,510 --> 00:56:08,580 I am just there to pick up the pieces. 609 00:56:17,020 --> 00:56:20,660 In the end, our faces are reflected in a mirror 610 00:56:20,690 --> 00:56:24,230 covered in a dust that the rain cannot cleanse. 611 00:56:24,260 --> 00:56:27,600 A mirror like the one I see in this tidy and clean cell. 612 00:57:38,410 --> 00:57:42,040 November 23, 2016 613 00:57:42,120 --> 00:57:45,460 No place is safe. 614 00:57:45,540 --> 00:57:49,300 Auschwitz, the Tlatelolco Massacre, 615 00:57:49,380 --> 00:57:51,760 the Oklahoma City Bombing, 616 00:57:51,840 --> 00:57:53,590 Hiroshima, 617 00:57:53,680 --> 00:57:59,730 horrible just like Alain Resnais showed in his film. 618 00:57:59,810 --> 00:58:04,860 Venezuela, and the police brutality in the U.S. 619 00:58:04,940 --> 00:58:09,360 Conflicts between countries are as paradoxical 620 00:58:09,440 --> 00:58:15,660 as the ones that can destroy a family. 621 01:00:42,100 --> 01:00:43,760 A REASON FOR CONTROVERSY IN MEXICO 622 01:01:02,280 --> 01:01:03,830 "Closed" 623 01:02:08,810 --> 01:02:10,940 Welcome to skylines, flight 382 624 01:02:10,980 --> 01:02:12,610 to London Heathrow today. 625 01:02:12,650 --> 01:02:14,950 Welcome on board. Lovely to have you with us. 626 01:02:14,980 --> 01:02:16,720 As we leave towards the east this... 627 01:02:16,750 --> 01:02:18,350 Dear, brother... 628 01:02:18,380 --> 01:02:19,920 Now, crossing the Atlantic, 629 01:02:19,950 --> 01:02:21,390 I can finally answer you, 630 01:02:21,420 --> 01:02:23,190 at least in my head, 631 01:02:23,220 --> 01:02:25,760 but with a sense that you can hear me. 632 01:02:25,790 --> 01:02:27,590 Images cloud my mind 633 01:02:27,630 --> 01:02:31,560 while that little Oklahoma town, Ava, appears in flashes. 634 01:02:31,600 --> 01:02:33,800 The reds and oranges are what I see the most. 635 01:02:46,510 --> 01:02:47,910 So we anticipate pushing back 636 01:02:47,950 --> 01:02:50,280 a few minutes ahead of schedule. 637 01:02:50,320 --> 01:02:52,990 The cabin crew will demonstrate the safety equipment procedures 638 01:02:53,020 --> 01:02:55,190 of this aircraft, and we ask you to... 639 01:02:55,220 --> 01:02:57,660 Now, crossing the Atlantic, I think of the wall 640 01:02:57,690 --> 01:03:00,390 that's someday meant to divide Mexico and the US. 641 01:03:00,430 --> 01:03:03,560 What a... hm... deplorable idea, 642 01:03:03,600 --> 01:03:07,770 but of course, not surprising. 643 01:03:07,800 --> 01:03:10,970 I'm glad you came to Mexico, Sebastián. 644 01:03:11,000 --> 01:03:13,610 I'm glad you saw a little of the place where you were born, 645 01:03:13,640 --> 01:03:16,240 although you came to save me, I know. 646 01:03:16,280 --> 01:03:18,380 Smart move. 647 01:03:18,410 --> 01:03:21,410 I'm glad you didn't just send me a text, dear brother. 648 01:03:21,450 --> 01:03:23,450 And that your girlfriend understood, 649 01:03:23,480 --> 01:03:24,850 that she didn't give up. 650 01:03:47,950 --> 01:03:50,740 Emanates immense tenderness. 651 01:03:53,880 --> 01:03:56,980 Violence can disrupt your life without even touching you, 652 01:03:57,020 --> 01:03:59,150 like the spinning winds of a tornado. 653 01:03:59,180 --> 01:04:00,850 While Monica heard horror stories 654 01:04:00,890 --> 01:04:02,990 about the brutality of Pinochet in her attic, 655 01:04:03,020 --> 01:04:04,890 in another attic, I invented stories 656 01:04:04,920 --> 01:04:07,130 with my father and Lloyd. 657 01:04:07,160 --> 01:04:08,830 "Remember Lloyd?" 658 01:04:08,860 --> 01:04:10,660 They were always playing at writing stories 659 01:04:10,700 --> 01:04:13,030 for the newspapers up in the attic. 660 01:04:13,070 --> 01:04:14,570 Remember? 661 01:04:16,600 --> 01:04:18,440 It was like a game, not knowing 662 01:04:18,470 --> 01:04:20,270 that something devastating was coming our way. 663 01:04:20,650 --> 01:04:21,687 DEBATE REGARDING TLATELOLCO 664 01:04:21,711 --> 01:04:23,210 Seeing you has made me think again 665 01:04:23,240 --> 01:04:25,080 about the Tlatelolco Massacre, 666 01:04:25,110 --> 01:04:27,010 which our father reported, 667 01:04:27,050 --> 01:04:28,510 and the Oklahoma City bombing, 668 01:04:28,550 --> 01:04:30,480 which is somehow part of our own story. 669 01:04:30,520 --> 01:04:32,850 Believe that a 1,200-pound car-bomb is what 670 01:04:32,890 --> 01:04:36,020 ripped through the nine-story building shortly after 9:00 this morning. 671 01:04:36,050 --> 01:04:38,020 - Many of the victims... - And years later, 672 01:04:38,060 --> 01:04:40,990 even dad's favorite bar in Ava burned down. 673 01:04:41,030 --> 01:04:43,030 - Hm. - On Tuesday of last week, 674 01:04:43,060 --> 01:04:45,130 a lightning strike and the fire that followed... 675 01:04:45,160 --> 01:04:47,670 gutted Leam Gaertner's "happy place." 676 01:04:47,700 --> 01:04:51,540 Fire grew fast in this beloved bar of Ava with very little time to... 677 01:04:53,010 --> 01:04:54,710 And thinking about our mother, 678 01:04:54,740 --> 01:04:56,680 put away in London for as long as I can remember, 679 01:04:56,710 --> 01:05:00,410 I think of what Tomás Eloy Martínez once said: 680 01:05:00,450 --> 01:05:03,180 'When we read that there were one hundred thousand victims 681 01:05:03,220 --> 01:05:05,180 'in a tsunami in Bangladesh, 682 01:05:05,220 --> 01:05:09,460 'the data shocks us, but it does not move us. 683 01:05:09,490 --> 01:05:11,890 'If we read, instead, the tragedy of a woman 684 01:05:11,930 --> 01:05:15,290 'who has been left alone in the world after a tsunami 685 01:05:15,330 --> 01:05:18,570 'and we followed step-by-step the history of her losses, 686 01:05:18,600 --> 01:05:21,630 'we'd know everything there is to know about that tsunami 687 01:05:21,670 --> 01:05:23,700 'and all there is to know about chance 688 01:05:23,740 --> 01:05:26,940 'and about involuntary and sudden misfortunes.' 689 01:05:35,310 --> 01:05:39,050 Your road trip brought all of this to me, dear brother. 690 01:05:39,080 --> 01:05:42,320 It reminded me of the good life we had in Oklahoma. 691 01:05:48,610 --> 01:05:51,360 February 8, 2017 692 01:05:53,870 --> 01:05:56,600 But there are millions of other stories out there. 693 01:05:56,640 --> 01:05:58,840 Where did the 21st century go wrong? 694 01:05:58,870 --> 01:06:02,470 The planet is full of dictators, liars, weapons, 695 01:06:02,510 --> 01:06:04,140 and yet we cling to the illusion 696 01:06:04,180 --> 01:06:06,010 that we are moving forward. 697 01:06:06,040 --> 01:06:07,650 That's why I read Walter Benjamin. 698 01:06:07,680 --> 01:06:09,480 I don't believe in that progress either, 699 01:06:09,520 --> 01:06:12,020 especially when I walk, looking around obsessively, 700 01:06:12,050 --> 01:06:15,120 trying to understand... something. 701 01:06:15,150 --> 01:06:18,290 That's what drove Mónica away, I'm sure. 702 01:06:18,320 --> 01:06:19,990 Maybe as I try to write, 703 01:06:20,030 --> 01:06:22,190 a nuclear bomb is crossing the Atlantic. 704 01:06:22,230 --> 01:06:24,260 Maybe, right now, as I walk, 705 01:06:24,300 --> 01:06:26,370 the world is turning into a mushroom cloud 706 01:06:26,400 --> 01:06:29,800 in which we all burn like delicate autumn leaves, 707 01:06:29,840 --> 01:06:31,440 slowly growing dark 708 01:06:31,470 --> 01:06:36,280 and turning into fragile, gray, absurd ashes. 709 01:06:40,950 --> 01:06:43,250 JOINT VISIONS. Mexico City, March 16, 2017 710 01:06:43,330 --> 01:06:44,920 Chronicles 711 01:06:45,000 --> 01:06:47,460 Oklahoma Mon Amour By Nico Gaertner 712 01:06:47,540 --> 01:06:50,010 For Rose 713 01:06:50,090 --> 01:06:52,066 In 1998, Fiona and Leam Gaertner traveled for nine days 714 01:06:52,090 --> 01:06:53,196 through the north of Mexico, the infamous border, 715 01:06:53,220 --> 01:06:54,760 the never-ending plains of Texas, 716 01:06:54,840 --> 01:06:56,720 until reaching the reddish Oklahoma territory. 717 01:06:56,800 --> 01:06:59,310 Fiona's dry but playful British humor helped them ease away 718 01:06:59,390 --> 01:07:00,930 from their fearless activism. 719 01:07:01,020 --> 01:07:02,390 She would say, for instance, 720 01:07:02,480 --> 01:07:04,440 "England is an island with only seven faces, 721 01:07:04,520 --> 01:07:05,940 and mine is one of them." 722 01:07:06,020 --> 01:07:08,746 Sebastián's, let's say, "road movie" from 2016, also lasted nine days. 723 01:07:08,770 --> 01:07:11,990 He was afraid to reach Mexico and Latin America, 724 01:07:12,070 --> 01:07:15,070 while thinking that "his" own country was falling apart. 725 01:07:15,160 --> 01:07:16,990 Oklahoma... who would have thought... 726 01:07:17,070 --> 01:07:19,280 is the place that unites and separates them all, 727 01:07:19,370 --> 01:07:21,160 as it is the center of so many stories 728 01:07:21,250 --> 01:07:23,960 hidden underneath that reddish land that stretches on... 59856

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