Raze with nature In the film may be at Complejo Tita Merello , the director extends to several regions of the continent looked on Argentina tested in empty veins. "What Galeano raised in the '70s has not been solved: it is worse," he says.
The documentarian Michael Mirra had already addressed the problem of environmental pollution and the plundering natural resources in Argentina by the multinational empty Veins (2007). Now expanded its analysis and reporting cinematic much of the continent: The Latin American eyes closed, which may be at Complejo Tita Merello, Suipacha 442 - covers not only internal but also Argentina, Paraguay, Colombia, Peru, Guatemala, Uruguay and Mexico, to account for a situation that affects not only animals and plants but also people living in places where multinational companies implement projects, often devastating. Over ninety minutes you know the problem created by the extraction of metals in the open, predation of soils and forests, ictícola exploitation, pollution, soybean cultivation and production of wood pulp (a very known in Argentina as a result of the conflict in the bins, which had already realized Mirra in the documentary! Gualeguaychú Long live!).
Mirra, a specialist in social issues, recorded with his camera in a number of countries addressing the documentary, while in other cases provided him with various documentary images of the regions mentioned. In the midst of testimony, appear, from time to time, texts of The Open Veins of Latin America, Eduardo Galeano. Mirra said quoting the writer as "a tribute "and also" serves to highlight that which arose in the '70s Galeano is not resolved. Moreover, it is worse, "says the filmmaker in dialogue with Pagina/12.
- The documentary notes that the great cause of environmental disasters and looting of natural resources caused by the existence of capitalism. What responsibilities of transnational corporations on these issues? "They
carriers of globalized capitalism. Are your managers and their beneficiaries. And eventually, with native partners are junior partners and servants of those interests. And curiously, capitalist developments the premises are destroyed by global capitalism that some authors report as a higher stage of imperialism. Against developments such as local capitalists Gualeguaychú, for example, betting on the tourism development, natural production, almost no unemployment even in the worst times, with a population that lives in dignity, global capitalism, from this policy plundering of natural resources, is threatening.
- How would you describe the mechanisms of predation, plunder and pollution of the multinationals that could investigate?
"For a start, develop technologies and to impose different countries. The most typical is the soybean complex, which includes not only GM, but soybeans glyphosate, or predators of other vegetation to soybean can produce better. With strip mining it is the same: develop a technology which is also imposed. Pablo Bergel explained that this has to do with a structural issue. That is, the Latin American economic development is increasingly linked to these foreign capital coming to extract resources, including national and provincial states receive a portion that is minimal in the case of mining, the three percent. But anyway, serve and then there is a dependence These structural models.
- is noted that industrial agriculture needs to destroy nature to produce. Is this inevitable or are there alternative ways that are not being enforced by economic interests?
-One goes hand in hand with the other. The more industrialized agriculture is the most destructive to nature. But do not care. Not only destroy the nature in plants and animals, but also the humane nature. If industrialized agriculture need to uproot, as in many places, they do and do not care. As in the Chaco, where they destroy the forest. Major population centers are banished there. Not that those who are against industrialized agriculture are against the application of technology, but technology is being applied is in the interests of multinationals, not local interests. Is technology designed to extract resources. Not only are the commodity, also take soil and water.
- much importance given to the resistance of people to stop this action?
-is essential. There is no other way. Governments can act on social resistance there, if not impossible. Is essential: if it does not happen we are in the oven. But the good thing is that this is happening and show concrete examples in the film. And multinationals have created a continental plan has been like a trail of resistance that are interconnected and coordinated. We bet that this process continue and that this resistance does not allow these plans forward. Will be an uphill struggle because there is much at stake.
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